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Naremburn March 2021 Volume 18 No.1 Matters Circulation 3,000 Gully spoil site. There will be widespread THROUGH THE TUNNEL noise impacts and some vibrations. DOWN THE SLIDE An independent committee will assess Part of the WHT was approved any property impacts and there will be a substratum acquisition process. on the eve of Australia Day Unfortunately, the EIS has many to-be- With the Western Harbour Tunnel (WHT) announced options which can lead to late and Warringah Freeway, part of the $14 changes and delays. billion toll-road project being approved Our lovingly restored, rare urban on the eve of the Australia Day holiday bushland at Flat Rock Gully is to become weekend, many in the community may the temporary dive site for tunnel spoil feel their objections have gone unheard. from 2023 to 2027. However it’s not all bad news, 75 additional Above ground operations would be plans and notifications are required as a result of community feedback. The Monday to Friday 7am - 6pm and conditions of approval of these can be Saturday 8am - 1pm and underground found online on the NSW Government activities would operate 24 hours a day Major Projects Planning portal. seven days a week. 3 Unfortunately, at this stage, we still A large amount of spoil (500 m ) will will get a 30m unfiltered tunnel fumes be allowed to be housed outside the acoustic shed at Cammeray, raising major stack at Cammeray, a lot of noise and ARTISTS IMPRESSION OF PROPOSED SLIDE the possibility of the area becoming the dust concerns. The Naremburn Park Playground in U-Turn bay for hundreds of huge trucks. The community is calling for real time/ Station Street is to be renovated at a This stage of the works is due to start in alert style monitoring at Bicentennial cost of $625,000. The playground will earnest next year (with preparatory works Reserve and Northbridge Baths. Road be expanded by over 50% and while it prior) and the planned completion is 2026. widening works will be carried out and will retain some favourite features, it An enormous amount of spoil will lights placed at the bottom to allow 565 will boast some exciting child-skill- come out at Cammeray and head south heavy vehicles per day to use Brook St. enhancing equipment. across the Harbour Bridge with a likely The shared user path will be diverted as drop off point being the new airport at New equipment will include; flying will Flat Rock Creek and no doubt the Eastern Creek. The trucks will return fox, curved hill slide, climbing net, school bus to Cammeray. After 40 years of to the Cammeray site from across the hammock swing, quad swing, a wide rehab half the trees from the dive site area Bridge but will need to turn around embankment slide, a timber balance will be removed but below ground issues somewhere to access the Cammeray Golf challenge and new sit-on springers. are also significant. Course Construction site entry point on There are also some new picnic Warringah Freeway. The question is how The mainline tunnels will be excavated settings, shelters and tree planting. and where? The project team confirmed in three directions and the very large recently that problem has not been drawdown impact may have more worked out. ecological implications as will the large TRUE OR FALSE volume of wastewater discharge into the The Beaches Link and Gore Hill Fred Stolle, Grand Slam tennis Creek. Much of the risk management Freeway EIS are on exhibition at centres champion, completed his relies on procedural management rather around Naremburn, with works due for Intermediate Certificate at than project design and unfortunately completion by 2028. accidents can happen. Naremburn Public School. Our heritage suburb, a highly residential ANSWER ON PAGE 12 With still no publicly available business area surrounded by children’s sports case or alternative public transport study with a precious urban wildlife corridor, is set to have the twin tunnels passing it is difficult to understand how this is the directly underneath it, as they travel very best option or in fact the only option? from Cammeray down to the Flat Rock LARISSA PENN FOLLOW AND SHARE YOUR PHOTOS ON SEE INSIDE ON HOW YOU CAN ACT NOW AND HAVE YOUR SAY INSTAGRAM @ NAREMBURN SUPPORTERS Naremburn Matters \ March 2021 Volume 18 No. 1 PRESIDENT WHAT CAN YOU DO CRA F T BEE R REAL ESTATE FISH & CHIPS ABOUT THE IMPACT PODIATRY OUT & OF THE WHT ON YOU? • REVIEW the EIS and make ABOUT a submission/ objection at https://www.planningportal. nsw.gov.au/major-projects/ project/10456, • WRITE to our local State Although COVID-19 remains an ongoing of writing this article, the submission representative Premier Gladys restriction to our “normal” life patterns, period for Beaches Link closes on Berejiklian and copy in your many of us have also been very busy in 1 March 2021. (WFU and WHT projects local councillors, wrestling with the massive 12,000 page have previously closed for submissions Beaches Link Environmental Impact and in fact have recently received final • WRITE to the Environment Statement (EIS) in trying to understand approval from the NSW Minister for Protection Authority and the ongoing effects, be they financial, tell them more about Flat Planning and Public Spaces.) Several environmental, traffic congestion, community groups are lodging Rock worries and your mental and physical health on ourselves applications for an extension to the contamination concerns. and our families. These effects will closing date, but they are by no means remain with us for far more than the assured of any success. So in any event, seven plus years of construction, indeed Join our community action group you are strongly encouraged to make the effects will become part of the to save our precious Gully a submission – online via https://www. “background” of the entire Beaches Link/Warringah Freeway Upgrade/ planningportal.nsw.gov.au/major- Western Harbour Tunnel (BL/WFU/ projects/project/10456, telephone WHT) series of projects and once enquiries on 1800 931 189 or by mail to commenced, will be here to stay. Customer feedback, Transport for NSW, Locked Bag 928, North Sydney NSW Transport for NSW (TfNSW) is the 2059. And remember – time is short, proponent for these massive road submissions close 1st March 2021! infrastructure projects, currently estimated to cost in the region of $14 All the best with your reading, Go to Save Flat Rock Gully billion, and have invited the public or saveflatrockgully.org to make submissions of support or ROGER PROMNITZ objection to the proposals. 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While all possible Committee Members care is taken to be accurate, no responsibility 1/284a Willoughby Rd, Naremburn Viviane Leveaux, Matthew Smythe, whatsoever will be taken by the Naremburn Progress John Melville Association, Typesetters or Printers. Page 2 Naremburn Matters \ March 2021 Volume 18 No. 1 Peter Chauncy – McGrath ON THE BUSES Alterations to some State Transit bus routes and timetables across Willoughby, have been made by Transport for NSW to ‘improve the frequency of services on key routes’. Transport for NSW has worked closely with State Transit (STA), to determine the changes, using Opal data and customer feedback. Connections for customers travelling to the city or within the local area have had over 700 extra weekly services added to the network. • In the Willoughby area, existing routes 272, 340 and 343 will be replaced by new routes 115 and 120. The back end of 2020 was an encouraging in Naremburn. Most notably, just before • The new all-day frequent route 120 year for the Naremburn property market Christmas we broke the suburb record will replace existing routes 272 and despite the uncertainty of the global with the off-market sale of 13 Rhodes 340. This will serve both Wynyard pandemic. Economists predict that the Avenue Naremburn, a four-bedroom and the QVB in the city. Sydney market will continue to accelerate renovated Federation home selling • Customers travelling between the with record low interest rates combined for $5,000,000. Willoughby area and North Sydney with minimal supply of property can use new route 115, which will available and high demand. It’s the Off-market transactions have been a replace existing route 343 services. perfect amalgamation. popular choice in recent times with many sellers wanting to test the market Route 343 will continue to operate We have seen this firsthand ourselves before moving forward. Having strong between Kingsford and the city with with a large number of prospective buyers relationships and understanding buyers’ the same service frequency and hours inspecting open homes within the first requirements allows us to match people of operation. week of campaigns. We believe this rapid to the right property. In December and • Minor changes have been made growth will continue to do so in the January alone, we sold eight properties off to routes 200 and 333 after the short term.