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Glebe Society Bulletin 2004 Issue 04 e Love Your Lane n u J / y The lane is a “unveiled” by Lord M Mayor Clover Moore. Photo provided 4 by Rebecca 0 Raap. 0 2 / Our new Lord Mayor, Clover Moore, clean-up service in addition to the 4 officially unveiled the refurbished normal garbage collection. If you laneway between Cowper Lane and have items for collection that don’t fit Mitchell Lane East on Saturday into your bin, call and book a clean- morning 8 May. up during business hours on 1300 About 30 people, ranging in age from 651 301 and ask for the Waste toddlers to 80 year olds, were Services Department. present. They included Glebe Place More information about the City’s Manager Marcello Massi, Councillor waste and recycling service can be Robyn Kemmis, Area Manager, Inner found on the City’s website West & Northern Suburbs, Depart- www.cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au/waste ment of Housing Gemma Cooney, Glebe Society member Jan Wilson You are invited to a and many local residents. PUBLIC MEETING As the Council explains, the Love your Lane initiative aims to raise to discuss the amended awareness about and reduce the Development Application for incidence of illegal dumping across THE ABBEY, 156-160 the local government area and seeks BRIDGE ROAD, GLEBE to challenge the public perception of laneways and how they are used. At 6:30 pm, Thursday, 3 June The lane, previously a dirty dumping In the Community Room, Benledi ground where residents were afraid (Glebe Library) to walk, now has smart planter boxes An inspection of the site will be held and new bitumen. Best of all, dozens at 4:30 pm the same day. Meet of colourful tiles, decorated by architect Peter Mayoh at the main children and adults, are embedded in gate of the Abbey. a strip of concrete at the edge of the Among other changes: lane. Council hopes to create three or four similar laneways each year. - the Amended Application reduces the number of residential units from Clover Moore introduced Rebecca 40 to 22; Raap, Senior Project Officer, Environ- ment, Waste, Stormwater & Educa- - re-use of the Abbey is proposed to tion, who took over responsibility for be professional suites rather than residential; this Love your Lane project from Leichhardt Council. Rebecca - car spaces are reduced from 49 to 46; emphasised the need to avoid illegal - and nine more trees are to be dumping and encouraged local retained. residents to utilise Council’s weekly ALL WELCOME A publication of THE GLEBE SOCIETY INC PO Box 100 GLEBE 2037 Australia www.glebesociety.org.au CityRAGS Update After discussion, the following was Government agreed: The 8th meeting of the City of Sydney · if decision-making is by consen- Architect Extols Combined Resident Action Groups sus (as per the draft Charter), (CityRAGs) was held on Tuesday 4 this issue hopefully should not the Virtues of May at Ultimo Community Centre, arise Ultimo. Thirteen Groups were Glebe… represented. The anticipated attend- · no interested resident action ance of the Lord Mayor did not group/precinct group should be To a gathering of 76 people in eventuate owing to Parliament sitting. excluded from participating Gleebooks upstairs on Wednesady 28 In her stead, Mr Larry Galbraith, a · if the City of Sydney chose to April, Chris Johnson spoke to the policy adviser in the Lord Mayor’s take up the precinct model, the title suggested by the Heritage Office, met with us. His presentation issue of boundaries would be Subcommittee, namely “Streetscapes and the subsequent question and somewhat clearer. and Skyscapes: Heritage in the Emerald City”. answer session took up a consider- CityRAGs would encourage those able part of the meeting – to a good representing such groups to make He pictured Australians’ love of end. The areas discussed ranged contact through their webmaster at country, but paradoxically, our desire over: [email protected]. to live in big cities; of how we had combined both loves in the quarter · the Town Hall organisation, - Bob Armstrong personnel and procedural acre suburban block with enough changes; room for trees and shrubs all around. But now the quarter acre block has so · the ‘City of Villages’ concept; shrunk, and the castles on them so planning and consultation One Year On grown, as to leave no room for the processes; trees. Visit any of our new outer · the Precinct model – being a A year ago, on 8 May, Glebe and Sydney housing developments and matter for negotiation and future Forest Lodge became a part of the you will see what he means. debate; City of Sydney. We joined the City with mixed feelings, mainly because For an answer to this lack of balance · Community forums, some eleven of the lack of consultation with between the built and natural envi- to be chaired by the Lord Mayor residents, many of whom would ronment, Chris Johnson used our commencing in late May (these have preferred to remain in very own Glebe as an example. Here will be publicised in the local Leichhardt. he sees a balance of both worlds in press); the traditional terrace house which on · the nature, extent and identifica- As it turned out, life in Glebe seems the one hand achieves efficiencies in tion of support by Council for to have improved as a result of the building costs and land usage, whilst CityRAGS and individual resident amalgamation. The Lord Mayor, still providing space in the front and groups. Lucy Turnbull, took a personal back for the plants which do so much interest in our suburb. Teams Larry has asked us to let him have a to improve our air quality. Couple moved in to remove graffiti. New ‘wish list’ of items we want Council to this with nearby parks both small and uniform street signs were installed address, to be communicated through large and the balance is achieved. to replace the previous assortment the CityRAGs representatives. of signs. The Foreshore Walk came And in a cultural sense, Glebe-type The Minutes of the meeting will be closer to completion, with the planning with its higher densities posted on CityRAGs Website shortly acquisition of the Anchorage strip enables the village atmosphere of (http://www.gangart.com/cityrags/ of land. And best of all, we have a everybody’s front gate being within CityRAGs). convenient one-stop Council office walking distance of shops and services. Chris Johnson did, how- The important matter of representa- in Glebe Town Hall, run very ever, identify the linear nature of tion on CityRAGs was brought up in efficiently by Place Manager Glebe Point Road as detrimental to earlier debate and this will be of Marcello Massi. the perception of a village “centre”. interest to members of former pre- Just when we had settled into our cincts in Glebe and other areas. It was new “home” life changed once In all, it was a positive view of how noted that the CityRAGs draft Charter more, with the creation of an even Sydney might better cope with its provision for ‘one area/one vote’ larger City of Sydney, again without population pressures, with Glebe raised such questions as: consultation. We also have a new offering a successful model for adoption. · how boundaries are defined Lord Mayor, Clover Moore, who so far seems to be very interested in - David Mander Jones · overlaps of boundaries our suburb. · overlaps of organisations within Note : The text of Chris Johnson’s those boundaries We look forward to the next year. talk is available on the Glebe Society · problem of single issue groups. - Edwina Doe website. 2 The Glebe Society Bulletin The M4 East - is examining options for a road RAPS draws our attention to the tunnel linking the M4 at Strathfield following points: Tunnel Vision to the east. One option ends at Anzac Bridge in the vicinity of the · Retro-fitting filtering systems is Glebe residents will be aware that Rozelle railway goods yards, and problematic. road tunnels are proliferating in another emerges at Haberfield. · Public meetings in the inner- Sydney’s suburbs. However the west are united in calling for an news is that even though emission integrated public transport plan When the M4 East options were filtering systems are available, they for Sydney. discussed, inner west residents are not included in the tunnels. angrily rejected facilitation of more · Port Botany is set to expand. Residents living near existing and road traffic, more air pollution and Haulage trucks called B-doubles proposed tunnels have become more emission stacks. 1,000 people will move on to roads and it is experts and leaders in the fight for attending meetings at Ashfield feasible that we will see them and filtering. Town Hall and 200 at Leichhardt hear them on Anzac Bridge en Judi Rossi from RAPS Inc addressed rejected the RTA alternatives. route to the M4. the Glebe Point Residents Group · City of Sydney Mayor Clover meeting at Benledi on 7 April, 2004. In Norway, Japan and Korea, Moore is on record for support- Judi explained that RAPS (Residents electrostatic precipitators (EPs) are ing filtering. Against Polluting Stacks) was built-in to bypass tunnels or placed · Chemical emissions from vehi- formed in 1999 in the Bardwell Park - in tunnel roofs to filter 200 metre cles contribute to respiratory Earlwood area because of concerns segments. They collect pollution problems, cancer and heart regarding pollution emanating from and recycle treated air forward to the disease. 150 conditions are the single M5 East road tunnel next segment, where the next series placed on the M5 East tunnel but emission stack. The M5 East tunnel of EPs perform the function again, the Department of Infrastructure, is unfiltered.
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