Revitalise Parramatta Road without overdevelopment

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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Michael Amos signed 2015-12-12 10:12:54 +1100
Alesoun Marsden signed 2015-12-12 10:08:36 +1100

This government has been a great mate to developers generally and for Meriton specifically. The face of our Inner West urban environment is being destroyed by unsustainable overdevelopment. Open space and our heritage have been sold for developers profit to build ugly, overcrowded sites that put pressure on communities and infrastructure. These are the oldest, most historically valuable and already most densely populated urban areas in Australia! The Children’s Hospital @ Camperdown, Harold Park Raceway @ Glebe, massive development on old mill site plus every handkerchief of land available, all providing the slums of tomorrow, a visual blight & too many people where there is no way to create new roads to deal with increased population. Westconnex is the height of stupidity & more public largesse from public funds to private pockets. Not sure where you live Mr Baird but I’m sure the urban density ratio could be increased there & the residential tower blocks would stand out as alien eyesores full of people whose presence will negatively impact on you CONSTITUENTS! When your winning smile fades, I wonder which boards you will be sitting in with your sinecures for LIFE?! You will have nothing to feel proud about.
David Lloyd signed 2015-12-12 08:37:32 +1100

sensible, sustainable, low to medium density development not developer high density ghettos
Rhonda Green signed 2015-12-12 08:01:38 +1100

Stop the developers, they are the only winners. The inner west is already bursting at the seams, to allow over 6,000 houses to be built is totally irresponsible. The right amount of infrastructure cannot be provided for such a massive increase. Heavy rains will cause flooding in these areas, the water will not be able to get away.
Sharon Pfenninger signed 2015-12-12 07:53:12 +1100

We live and work on parramatta road and what is being proposed is outrageous…you will destroy our community and there is NO PLANNING for how this massive increase of people will function as a community with appropriate services eg hospitals schools open space….it is reckless and ill conceived and all about greed for a small number of people
Maureen Doyle signed 2015-12-12 07:40:19 +1100

Don’t destroy our community with overdevelopment and high rise, but revitalise Parramatta Road. It will never by the same as it was before Coles Plaza moved into the area, but it can become alive with different types of shops and venues. The local residents here value their community, DON’T FORCE US OUT!
Barbara Casey signed 2015-12-12 07:05:10 +1100

I strongly object to the lack of planning which is apparent in the Draft Parramatta Road Urban Transformation Strategy. The huge increase in development in this area will create an increased need for public transport and other infrastructure which the government has failed to recognize. The increase in population as a result of this excessive development will pose a risk to the current amenity to existing residents.
Marie Riordan signed 2015-12-12 06:26:28 +1100
Rod White signed 2015-12-11 23:31:31 +1100

As a home owner on Flood Street, i’m worried that decisions are being made very quickly rather than taking a slow and steady approach to understand impacts such as the development of Kolotex site. Surely some consideration will be taken to consider local residents before absurdity of development goes to far to turn back,
Minaka Nagai signed 2015-12-11 22:37:11 +1100
Jeff Melville signed 2015-12-11 21:51:38 +1100

Over development can kill a community – and so many of the recent developments are quite tasteless … Future urban slums – not sensible urban development
alice kershaw signed 2015-12-11 21:29:25 +1100

The government has decided to plonk 10,000+ new residents with no provision for new schools, playing fields, open space for passive recreation, public transport and most importantly MR BAIRD EXPECTS THE NURSES, DOCTORS, PARAMEDICAL AND OFFICE STAFF AT PRINCE ALFRED HOSPITAL TO DEAL WITH THE INCREASE IN POPULATION – READ BABIES, CHILDREN, ADOLESCENTS AND ADULTS – WITH NO INCREASE IN MEDICAL SERVICES – DOES HE EXPECT ALL OF THE ABOVE TO WORK SPEEDOSPEEDO i.e. 24hour shifts without a break like the Japanese POWS were expected to do.

May he and his government live in interesting times
Tina Hsu signed 2015-12-11 21:14:58 +1100
Andrea Clift signed 2015-12-11 21:10:30 +1100
Luigi Staiano signed 2015-12-11 20:34:46 +1100

The plan is ill conceived and is a massive imposition on the existing amenities without any increase of new amenity.
Renee Whan signed 2015-12-11 19:52:49 +1100
Katerina Shmaiger signed 2015-12-11 19:39:11 +1100

I travel along Canterbury Rd every day – it’s a car park at peak time. The development along this Rd is heartbreaking! Most of the new buildings are not even finished yet, but the traffic is not coping already! Parramatta Rd is a car park already. How anyone in their right mind, thinks, that building more apartment blocks in Inner West will make the area more livable, is mind-boggling! Mr Baird, think hard about all main developments which are on the table now, listen to our feedback, or you are about to lose your hard core supporters – for 20 years I’ve been the one of them, but seems like next election I have to find an alternative!
Sacha Zunic signed 2015-12-11 19:33:08 +1100

I have lived a few blocks from Parramatta road for nearly 13 years. It definitely needs to be revitalised, but not taken over by property developers and turned into a high rise hell hole. Consult the public and be transparent in what you do. The opportunity to turn into something great is there, please choose wisely
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Mary Grant signed 2015-12-11 19:17:15 +1100

I do not want Parramatta Road, as much as it needs revitalisation, to be a concrete canyon of high-rise buildings, with an overwhelmed public transport system.
Liz Thornton signed 2015-12-11 17:30:44 +1100

Parramatta needs to be developed cleverly and greed should not influence developers judgements Government needs control this because It could be a disaster which will affect us all.
Hunter Owens signed 2015-12-11 17:28:41 +1100

I am appalled at the push for high-density population in the Inner west. This will destroy the very thing that makes this area so special. It becomes less liveable and desirable with each new high-rise development. If it gets too crowded, I will abandon Sydney, a city I fell in love with 40 years ago. This is my home and now the lifestyle I have become accustomed to is slowly being eroded. This is driven by outright greed and disregard for existing residents.
Stephen Wale signed 2015-12-11 16:56:04 +1100

We have had enough of greedy developers pushing the agenda without any care or vision for people of the area. Time to reconsider for future benefits- PLEASE!
emily bullock signed 2015-12-11 16:41:50 +1100
Nola Saillard signed 2015-12-11 16:35:16 +1100

What infrastructure is planned to go with these dwellings? In the Leichhardt foreshores development the plans do not include garages. How do the occupants shop? visit friends? go on holidays? Do any of these planned developments include schools? shops? sporting fields? doctors’ surgeries?

Has anyone thought about this? I’m no expert, but someone must know a Town Planner, or be able to form a group to advise the Government!

This reminds me of the laws that are being brought in these days – and then adjusted ad hoc. Once we had people who could draft laws, but then we changed to “plain language”. It’s a bit harder to “adjust” masses of buildings – so let’s get it right first go, please!
Jill Matthews signed 2015-12-11 16:15:31 +1100

I have read the Draft plan. It gives no indication of how Westconnex will impact on it. Also it demonstrates far too little commitment to public transport especially light rail, and to cycle paths and walking tracks. I know some dotted lines appear on the maps but what I want is to see them described as ‘fully planned, costed and funded’.
Sylvia Sagi signed 2015-12-11 15:58:18 +1100
Kathryn Lenham signed 2015-12-11 15:55:51 +1100

Placing such unmanageable pressure on these areas is ludicrous. Where is the forethought and long-term vision in this planning or is this just about a few people making a lot of money at the expense of others and the environment? Where will all these people go? Where is the infrastructure to support such growth? There are too many people already for the services and infrastructure that we have. Local roads are already at maximum capacity – people use them as speedy rat-runs, with no thought for the communities – the people, the young and the elderly, the local environment or native wildlife living in the area. Such a development shows no consideration or higher thinking, just selfishness and greed.
Peter Mitchell signed 2015-12-11 15:48:01 +1100

The city and inner west is becoming over developed and further massive developments will ruin the character and functionality of these areas. There is insufficient planning and funding for increased health, hospital, schools and public transport to support the increased density and population. We have had enough of developers and the state government facilitating over development and the selling off amazing public lands and buildings. The local communities are losing there character and the environment is dominated by oversized development. The government plans for massive increases of population but reneges on its promise for a new Ultimo Public School. Pathetic.
Jacqueline Fischer signed 2015-12-11 15:40:36 +1100