Parramatta Road Urban Renewal
UrbanGrowth NSW
PO Box 237
PARRAMATTA NSW 2124
Submission: Draft Parramatta Road Urban Transformation Strategy
I write to strongly object to your proposals to over-develop our local community. The Draft Parramatta Road Urban Transformation Strategy seeks to increase the amount of housing from 736 homes to 6,014 in the three Inner West precincts of Taverners Hill, Leichhardt and Camperdown. This will produce close to a tenfold increase in population from 1,515 to almost 11,000.
This is an unnecessary and overwhelming imposition on the local community. It will make public transport less accessible, overwhelm local services and destroy what is special about our community.
The Inner West is already exceeding new housing requirements. Leichhardt Council, as an example, has a target set by the government’s Sydney Metropolitan Plan to deliver 2,400 new homes between 2005 and 2036. The Leichhardt Council area will have almost 1,800 new dwellings by the end of this year, already meeting its 2030 target which is 15 years ahead of schedule! The 2036 target will be easily met without imposing more than 5,500 new dwellings.
The draft strategy says more about the influence of the powerful developer lobby pushing for new development sites than proper strategic planning for a more liveable city.
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(1) lack of open green space and (2) the impact of higher population on the light rail system between Dulwich Hill to Central.
1) Lack of open green space in Taverners Hill Precinct and misleading information on map provided by Urban Growth:
i) The proposed open space on Cook St is a townhouse.
ii) The existing open space on Tebbutt St is a school yard.
iii) The proposed open space at the end of various streets, eg. Lords Street is existing bush area.
iv) The open space called ‘Richard Murden Reserve’ is in Haberfield and has been incorrectly located into Taverners Hill Precinct; it is on the other side of Marion Street.
v) The large green space of Lambert Park & Sports Field is misleading as 2/3 of this space is for the Sports Field which is often closed and a 1/3 is Lambert Park.
The Taverners Hill Precinct desperately needs more open green spaces and sporting fields not a higher population.
2) Urban Growth says the proposed high rise apartments are to be located near the light rail as it will provide public transport.
The light rail is already at capacity during peak hours and
soon will have to cope with an extra population due to 1,500 apartments currently been built at the Lewisham West light rail stop – the next light rail stop to Taverners Hill.
The Taverners Hill Precinct desperately needs more public transport not a higher population.
It is clear that people in the Leichhardt area already have high density living in terms of population density. Why is this being increased at the cost of local residents? Why are property rights being abrogated?
The massive changes that are being proposed require full debate in Parliament, and full openness of planning and proposals. People need as much access to government as developers.