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LEl11l~1~i~ ~11~ij 1111~1ij~~11111mRY L 3 4 3486 For Reference in this issue: The City Council Nottobetaken • The City Council eyes Glebe, pl C • The battle for Francis and Glebe Streets, p2 • eyes Gtoo&rary • Clean up Australia - p3 The Lord Mayor of Sydney, Cr Frank Cr Sartor promised that if the City +- Sartor, has begun a campaign to Council gained control of Glebe it • amalgamate several inner city areas would remove greyhound racing from "Our Sporting Heritage" the Glebe programme, p8 1) with the City Council. In particular Wentworth Park and restore it as a • Glebe's ·Son - Edmund Barton, p9 he has targeted the Glebe ward of public park. Leichhardt Council. The following Not surprisingly, the mayors of the • St Helen's Community Centre on Glebe Point Road, p10 information from stories in the Sydney councils concerned, including Morning Herald between 15-17 Leichhardt' s Maire Sheehan, have February is republished below to condemned Cr Sartor' s move. The inform members of what is in the Minister for Local Government said wind. ) We invite members to send us _their comments so that the Management _Com~ittee can trepare ~ statement which the Society wtll send to oth Le1chhardt Council and the City Council. The GLEBE Cr Sartor envisages only six or eight the proposal will not be examined until POSTAGE councils in greater Sydney, with the after the current round of voluntary Box 100 PO PAID City Council taking in the current council amalgamations is completed municipalities of South Sydney, later this year. Woollahra, Waverley, Botany and As Cr Sartor points out, the views of parts of Lcichhardt. He believes the local residents are important. We current boundaries of the City of The Librarian - Ms Margaret Whittaker invite members to send us their Glebe Library Sydney "gerrymandered by the Greiner comments so that the Management Liberal Go~ernment in 1988", are Glebe Point Road Committee can prepare a statement artificial and inappropriate. Glebe, he which the Society will send to both Glebe NSW 2037 says, "belongs with the city". Lcichhardt Council and the City The City Council is polling residents Council. in "various suburbs" to gauge their mail: PO Box 100, Glebe views on amalgamations and reviewing fax: Bruce Davis 9518. 9775 the implications of bringing suburbs email: such as Kings Cross, Woolloomooloo, <[email protected]> East Sydney and Darlinghurst under Bruce Davis (C===:J _J . I'-=-' ·.:i I Sydney City Council control. Cr Sartor claims the polls were initiated in response to strong resident submissions LET'S HAVE MEMBERSHIP OF THE GLEBE SOCIETY INC. seeking a realignment of the City of YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS DEADLINE Sydney's boundaries "because residents Repeating our earlier request for Ordinary $30 want the higher level of servicing and your email address to include on a Concession: Copy for the next issue of facilities the city can offer". mailing list we arc compiling for the Bulletin is the purpose of getting information Student/Pensioner $15 The Lord Mayor is quoted as saying: out quickly (e.g. our Clean Up "The truth is that councils like Institution $30 Australia Day undertaking) and to Tuesday Leichhardt are struggling financially, canvass members' views on relevant 14 March and we actually can often help those Write to Box 100 PO Glebe 2037 matters (e.g. the proposed City communities enormously." Council take-over). We will ensure or phone Liz Simpson-Booker on 9518.6186 . Please send to The following day he said: "The your address does not appear on If you have a matter that you would like to bring to discuss critical issue here is what is in the best group messages. PO Box 100 Glebe, with the Management Committee, please ring the Secretary, interests of the people and who would Please send to: 152 Bridge Glebe 2037, or serve them best." Liz Simpson-Booker on 9518. 6186, and arrange to come to [email protected] <[email protected]> a meeting. A publication of THE GLEBE SOCIETY Inc Box 100 Post Office Glebe NSW 2037 Australia Corporation, while outwardly A Report from the Project Team to Hands off our streets~ smiling and saying it wants to be a good local citizen has, on the matter THE BATTLE FOR FRANCIS AND GLEBE STREETS of Francis and Glebe Streets (where the collective community view has Clean Up lebe been strongly in support of Council's There was drama aplenty on Glebe Friday afternoon turned up promptly, have moved slowly, however the protective traffic measures) refused to This year CLEAN UP AUSTRALIA DAY ~ ~ Point Road the week l:iefore Christmas bur had no memory of the previous take on board local feelings and has is Sunday 5th March and The Glebe planter box which runs along the stand against littering, with the when the Walker Corporation, owner evening's deal. They said they would continued over three years of Society would like to encourage all street frontage of the Pioneer site has employment of two local government of the Broadway Shopping Centre in have to arrest us if we didn't move as consultation to bully and intimidate residents to help rid our suburb of now been completely replanted and law enforcement officers who target the old Grace Brothers buildirigs on they had received a fax from the RTA ro get its way. litter. The Society has registered a site mulched- a great improvement. littering and other minor offences, Broadway, played cowboy developer. authorising the work. Unfortunately We have won a fragile tactical in Pyrmont Bridge Rd, near the The Sydney Fishmarketing Authority and work closely with local police. In the tme proven manner of Sydney they couldn't show it to us as it was victory. But Glebe Point Road, corner of T alfourd Lane. Its members has not been as motivated regarding Eight large signs featuring the anti developers, Walker Corporation tried locked up at the station(?). Minogue Reserve and the whole and volunteers will be tackling the the small Strip of wasteland which littering message STOW rr, DON'T on their own bat to remove barricades We had grown to three by then residential area around Glebe Street surrounding streets and back lanes runs along Pyrmont Bridge Rd THROW IT and information regarding in Francis and Glebe Streets put there (David Gaunt, Neil Macindoe and are still at risk. Please hdp us win the from 1Oam - 2pm. For more inform between the main entrance to their on-the-spot fines were recently I by Leichhardc Council 20 months ago i myself) and when we refused ro move, next round by writing or faxing to: ation contact the site convenor, Jenna property and the disused coal loader. erected at the entrances to tl1e council - after extensive community they tried to arrest us, bur we won the Minister for Roads Reed Burns on 9692. 9369. The area, bounded by a rusting area. consultation and traffic studies - to ensuing scuffie as we were three {solid cyclone mesh fence on one side and Cad Scully MP Two other sites have been earmarked In August of last year when the Clean protect local streets around the enough!) and they were two. They the water on the other, remains an Parliament House for Glebe: Minogue Reserve, cnr Up Glebe Project Team met with Broadway Centre from the traffic that went fur reinforcements, so did we, eyesore, Sydney2000 Francis St and Glebe Point Rd, and and is home to several large Leichhardt Council officers, they this massive development generates. and by the rime they were six or seven fax: 9228 4633 Bicentennial Park at the end of Glebe castor oil trees and accumulated asked if anti-littering signs could be They tried first on Friday 17 we were twenty or thirty. Again Point Rd. For more information, rubbish. Although the effort to erected throughout our suburb. The Member for Port Jackson December in the mid-afternoon while residents and locals, and Glebe please contact either Clean Up improve it would not be great (and suggestion was met with positively, Sandra Nori MP Leichhardr Council staff were at their Society people, responded with Australia on 1800 024 890 or the site would impact positively on the Fish but since then the issue of cost Parliament House Christmas party. Local business alacrity to protect their suburb. convenors for these areas - Cyrus Market by beautifying its main appears to have prevented any signs Sydney 2000 people, their customers and Glebe The Mayor, Maire Sheehan, arrived Brooks, ph 9692. 3308 (for Minogue entrance), no action has yet been being made or erected. In the next fax: 9228 4544 residents had to sit-on the barricades at quickly, but police wouldn't listen to Reserve); and John Handley, ph taken because of disputed ownership. few weeks the T earn intends to meet A petition in both Gleebooks shops Francis Street to stop the her, the sergeant in charge was going 9338. 6760 (for Bicentennial Park). According to the Fish Markers, the with the local Chamber of Corporation's truck craning them up collected some 400 signarures (of to arrest us all, using further force if Volunteers can turn up co any of the land is not theirs, but could be owned Commerce, and will again raise the and raking them away. Again in time Glebe residents only) and was senr to necessary. We contacted our local three sites on the day and fill in a by Sydney City Council or Sydney matter of the signs, along with other proven manner Glebe police the Minister for Roads; the only MP, Sandra Nori, and she intervened registration form, then grab a bag Water.