Glebe Society Bulletin 2012 Issue 05
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Bays Precinct Task Force About the online Glebe Society Bulletin ... How to view the online Bulletin Last ditch negotiations The three rounds of com- The pages of the online Bulletin are almost identical to In this issue ... munity consultation on the the printed version except for the use of colour. Click on the headings below to jump to the item Bays Precinct are over, the You can use the index (In this issue) on this page to Bays Precinct Task Force - last ditch 1-3 penultimate Task Force jump to individual stories, or you can scroll through negotiations meeting was on 26 June and the second version of the the edition using the scroll wheel on your mouse, or OAM for Neil Macindoe 1-2 the page-up/page-down keys on your keyboard. To . draft Task Force Report has 1 return to the index, click on the blue triangle at the Planning matters 3 emerged . The Task Force bottom of any page. is now focussed on the Foreshore walk – a mad scramble along 4 5/2012 June/July production of a report that The layout is optimised for wide screen monitors so Pyrmont Bridge Road? all members are prepared to you can read two pages together. Quieter cables for Glebe Island Bridge? 4 sign off on. The online Bulletin also features links to websites or Jane Marceau and I face From the terraces 5 email addresses referred to in the text. To follow one very intensive work over the of these links hover over the URL or email address Are you high-tech - planning the future of 5 next two weeks to ensure A view corridor from Wentworth Park to Blackwattle Bay. Good planning in the Bays Precinct will help protect valuable features of and, when the mouse pointer changes to a hand, Glebe Society communications? that the community perspec- click. A new screen will appear showing either the tive is fairly and strongly the urban environment. Photo: Bruce Davis Support for St Helen’s community garden 6 website you want to link to or an email which you can articulated in the inal report public challenge to the agencies (and the complete and send. The Glebe Society is on Facebook 6 which will go to the Minister on 30 July. Task Force process) at the irst round of the consultations and received a great deal of It has been a pretty robust and lively Membership of the Glebe Society Do you live in a lood prone area? 6 experience to date. The early meetings of community support for her insistence that Individual member $45 the Task Force were very dificult. Agency the agencies try swapping monologue for Old shoes and dead cats 6 some dialogue with the community. Joint (2 people, one address) $55 positions were presented as immutable and unchallengeable. Jane Marceau issued a Household (more than 2 adults and/or Who lived in your street? 7 Continued on next page ... children, one address) $60 Member alert – nominations invited for 8 Concession (student or pensioner) $20 Management Committee OAM for Neil Macindoe Institution or corporate $110 Australian heritage strategy 8 Neil Macindoe has been awarded the Med- Convenor for over a decade. He served as Download a membership form from our website (www. al of the Order of Australia in the Queen’s President of the Glebe Society in the mid- glebesociety.org.au, click on Membership > New member- Elsie Walk named 9 ship), write to the Secretary at PO Box 100, Glebe, 2037, or Birthday Honours. His citation reads: 1980s and was appointed an Honorary Life Member in 1991. email [email protected]. Remembering and David Mander-Jones 9 For service to the community through the If you have a matter that you would like to discuss with the preservation of local heritage in the Glebe In 1990 (to 1999), Neil became a Council- Society Bulletin Management Committee, please contact the Secretary. Help needed for Glebe youth service 9 region, and to local government. lor on Leichhardt Municipal Council and IETY • INC was involved in the acquisition of Benledi C Neil has been a member of the Glebe Soci- Glebe youth environmental action 9 to become Glebe Library, the Heritage O ety since 1978 and has served as Planning Community Contacts S Listing of many properties in Glebe Point • Manager-Neighbourhood Services Centre: Glebe, NAIDOC week in Glebe 10 E Road, the creation of Jubilee Place and res- B GL THE E Forest Lodge, Camperdown, Ultimo & Pyrmont, Nick • Glebe society events 13 toration of University Hall, the restoration Hespe. of the Walter Burley Grifin Incinerator News and Notes 12 Office: Glebe Library 9am-5pm Monday-Friday. Continued on next page ... Phone: 9298 3191. For your diary 13 Email: [email protected] Sydney City Council Customer Service Directory 13 What’s coming soon Telephone (24 hours): 9265 9333 Friday 13 July, 6-8pm – Welcome to Email: council@cityof sydney.nsw.gov.au Do you have some pictures of Glebe that new members, Harold Park Hotel, Ross Website: www.cityof sydney.nsw.gov.au others should see? Street. See page 11. Dumped Shopping trolleys: Trolley Do you have some digital images that you believes Wednesday 25 July, 2.15pm – Glebe Tracker 1800 641 497 others would be interested in? If so, email editor@ Voices, the Woolcock Building. See page 11. Harold Park: Mirvac hotline for residents 9080 8588 glebesociety.org.au, and we’ll assess them for a centre page spread in the Society’s online Bulletin Neil Macindoe on holiday in northern Sunday 26 August, 11am – Glebe Soci- SSN 1836-599X Europe. Photo: Jan Macindoe I Glebe ety Annual General Meeting, Benledi. A publication of THE GLEBE SOCIETY INC PO Box 100 GLEBE 2037 www.glebesociety.org.au ... continued from previous page leasing arrangements; identifying two of the consultation rounds. new uses and, most importantly, There was a great deal of commu- Jane and I have also met on a num- revisiting the CRG planning prin- Planning Matters nity scepticism and anger following ber of occasions with representatives ciples needed to protect the Bays the irst two community consulta- Precinct from further ad hoc and of residents groups to consolidate It has been a busy month for consul- Townhouses, which are the modern of Plans generated by Councils. tion processes - largely because they short sighted developments and to views and check our understandings tations and workshops, so perhaps it equivalent of terraces, have been Nor did the fact that such a change were experienced as too controlled. ensure that the public good is a key of what various parts of the commu- is just as well it has been a quiet one should form part of the Review of Thankfully, rather than walking our most signiicant form since the factor in deciding future uses. nity are arguing. Most recently we 1880s, and together with apartments Legislation give them a moment's away, this generated an increased for development applications. Nev- met to test our proposed recommen- ertheless, there are big ones coming have formed almost all the addi- pause. Nor that the proposal did not level of community activity: draw- As a result the process did improve. dations and this led to some robust come to our attention until after the ing together arguments and informa- shortly. The Parklands Workshop, tional housing in and around Glebe The third round of community discussion and useful reinements closing date for comment. Needless tion on community needs; research- which will be reported in the next for the last century. consultations adopted a more open of recommendations.2 We are now to say, the Society has objected to ing current land and water uses and Bulletin, is a good preparation for I have recently been writing the approach and those 60 or so resi- conident that we have a good grasp focussing members and residents making changes while the review is dents who attended asked ques- of community perspectives and a history of the Glebe Estate for our under way, and also objected to giv- ... continued from previous page generally on Harold Park. Appar- tions directly and responded to the website, and it is worth noting that ing yet another free kick to develop- fair assessment of what principles ently there has been an additional and the development of the Orphan feedback from the irst two rounds. and uses are most strongly – and while inill terraces and townhouses ers. School Creek Park. trafic study that will be available - The ongoing community input via reasonably – supported within the formed a signiicant part of its re Warehouse, 137-141 Bridge Road, with the report, which now will not habilitation in the 1970s and 1980s, Neil’s work as the Glebe Society’s Jane Marceau and direct letters, community. corner Talfourd Street be with us until July at the earliest. the main population increase, the Planning Convenor has pivoted submissions and over 7000 visits to the Bays Precinct website, made it The challenge of course is to get The Affordable Housing Project largest ever since the 1880s, resulted There has been a succession of upon his professionalism and a deep pretty clear that there is an informed as many of our recommendations at the other end of Glebe is also from extensions to existing dwell- small applications for this site as the understanding of Glebe’s social and and determined community network as possible endorsed by the Task delayed, at least partly because legal ings. use changes. However, the latest has architectural history which comple- problems need to be sorted. been quite major, involving an extra ments his pragmatic view of change.