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                                    CHANNEL 9 COMMUNITY MEETING
 
 
 
WHEN:  NEXT TUESDAY, AUGUST 16TH FROM 7.45 TO 9.30PM
 
WHERE: WILLOUGHBY UNITING CHURCH HALL, CLANWILLIAM ST  WILLOUGHBY
 
WHY:  1.  TO HEAR ABOUT THE LATEST NEWS ON THE CHANNEL 9 REDEVELOPMENT SAGA AND HAVE YOUR QUESTIONS ANSWERED.
 
                 2.  TO PASS A RESOLUTION CONDEMNING THE NEW PROPOSED HEIGHT OF 12 STOREYS AND THE NEW PROPOSED DENSITY OF 510 
                      APARTMENTS IN FAVOUR OF MAINTAINING THE ALREADY AGREED-TO 8 STOREYS AND 400 APARTMENTS.
       
                 3.  TO ENCOURAGE PEOPLE TO MAKE A SUBMISSION TO THE DEP’T OF PLANNING ON THE LATEST PLANS.

Greetings to all on our contact list,

Channel 9 site redevelopment – community consultation sessions 25th & 26th May

Following the sale of the Channel 9 property, the new owners have now lodged a modified Concept Plan with the NSW Department of Planning (DoP).  The Planning Act allows them to do this.

The modified plan greatly changes the Concept Plan that was signed off by Channel 9, Willoughby Council (WCC) and the Planning Assessment Commission (PAC) in January, 2015, after much involvement of the local community, Progress Associations and the Willoughby Area Action Group.

The Land & Environment Court finally approved a maximum of eight storeys height with 400 apartments and 500 sq. m of commercial space.  However, while there are positive design aspects to the modified Concept Plan, the new plan is for increased height up to 12 storeys, and 510 apartments.

An Environmental Statement for the modified Concept Plan has been submitted to the DoP who will call for submissions from the community and WCC.  http://majorprojects.planning.nsw.gov.au/index.pl?action=view_job&job_id=7631
The developer’s Planning Consultant will run community consultation sessions to introduce and explain their modified Concept Plan:

Venue: Willoughby Uniting Church, 10 Clanwilliam St, Willoughby

Community information Session 1
Wednesday, 25th May, 5.30 – 8.00pm

Community information Session 2
Thursday, 26th May, 5.30 – 8.00pm

General enquiries: 1800 746 436, or email parksidewilloughby@jbaurban.com.au

It’s important that the community continues to be engaged in this development proposal and so we encourage all members of our community to attend one of these sessions.

Best regards,

Bob

St Leonards Central: New Development

A new development concept plan has been lodged with the NSW Planning Department for an indication to proceed with a commercial/residential development proposal covering vacant land and airspace immediately to the north and east of St Leonards Station. The parts of the land are owned by State Rail, Willoughby Council and the Alto Group of companies and the Alto Group has formed a consortium with the construction group Brookfield Multiplex to redevelop the site as St Leonards Central.

The concept design proposes three new buildings of 38, 48 and 55 storeys high, being built over a three-level retail/commercial podium with a gross floor area (GFA) of approximately 121,000m2 and potentially including up to 1,300 new residential apartments.

As owners of part of the site, WCC have given their consent to the proposal being lodged with NSW Planning but at this stage have not given any indication to the developer of their consent to the initial concept plan. If the proposal is accepted by NSW Planning as a State Significant project, Council will be by-passed as the consent authority. It would be expected that the Director General of NSW Planning would issue a document called the Director General’s Requirements (DGRs) with a list of items that the developer would be required to respond to. Once the developer has addressed the DGRs a Development Application (DA) would be submitted and NSW Planning would put this on public exhibition with a request to the community to respond with their comments or counter-proposals.

Naturally enough, the scope of the proposal has met with grave concern from the local community with doubts expressed about overshadowing, additional traffic, parking, school capacity and transport infrastructure capacity. At a meeting convened recently by Naremburn Progress Association, a group called Naremburn Action Group (NAG) was formed and a decision taken to initiate a petition expressing opposition to the current proposal. A meeting with local member, Gladys Berejiklian has been arranged to discuss the project and inform her of the community’s reservations about the scope of the proposal.

NAG have asked for our support so please sign their petition which can be found at here. The petition will be presented to our State MP, Gladys Berejiklian next Friday so please respond as soon as you can.

If you’d like further information on this project you’ll find a list of relevant documents at Council’s Have Your Say web site at here.

Kind regards,

Bob Taffel