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Movement on the Five Sites "^f"?»-n-S«r»w' V2o£) 1225 the balmain The Peninsula □ □ □ L association cil incorporated BEDi news sheet Vol 28 No 3 issue 223 Founded 1965 June/July 1993 Movement on the Five Sites is anticipated that the landscaping will be tower on the ridge was out of keeping with the Atlast! theA 5step sites.forward Followingon the five rezoningconsultativeof designed to assist in the thermal control of character of the area. If it Is necessary to meetings of the applicants, Councillors and the buildings. The storm water run-off will be maintain the number of people to get 32% of residents, Council will be shortly exhibit the retained and filtered before it enters the the site open space then they could be Draft Local Environment Plan for the old harbour. Pedestrians and cyclists will be accommodated in less exclusive water-front Gnilever site for public comment. TTie new provided with safe and easy access through warehouse type buildings on the southern environmentally sensitive plan should create the site. Improvements will be made to the side of the site. These buildings would reflect the urban village of White Bay. The buildings, Victoria Road and Robert Street intersection the size and scale of other buildings around their uses and their size will have a diversity will be upgraded with a bus-only lane Mort's Bay with a mixture of uses such as and density to match the existing character planned. Light Rail or Trolley Bus service studio apartments, offices, & kiosks, giving a of the Balmain Peninsula. using the old Clebe Island Bridge is en- greater range of affordabilty and a more A small group of retail shops will surround visuaged, as is a ferry wharf and foreshore active use of the site for all. the community recreational facilities in the park in front of the site. The dilemma is should we accept this sort restored Historical buildings. A diversity of Section 22 Committee of compromise, or do we maintain the stand accommodation in the form of semi-shared There have also been 5 meetings about of no rezoning until the funds for 100% open units, serviced apartments, shared houses, the Monsanto, Balmain Power Station and space are available. This course of action will hostel and housing for the aged, students and Caltex sites, with the Department of Planning almost certainly result in the State disabled as well as the conventional 1. 2 & 3 and Govemment instrumentalities on the Government again taking away the planning bedroom town houses will maintain section 22 committee. An on-site meeting at powers and we will be back in court to recover Balmain's socio-economic diversity. Caltex looked at the extent of the proposed them. Council is keen to hear what the feeling Shopfront commercial offices and the op>- foreshore park, the type and spacing of of the community is on this most important tion of working from home are encouraged. existing houses in Wharf Rd, the views out issue. All buildings will of energy efficient design and the view from the water. It was expressed A i d N i c k M a s t e r m a n and incoqporate energy saving appliances. It at the meeting that the proposed 7 storey Transport Management can travel on road as well as track or 0-Bahn. costs amounted to 60% of that required for a These are more versatile as they can leave light rail system. the track to service communities away from For many years Balmain residents have the elimination of heavy traffic volumes the railway with no loss of time or need for I^he principle transport goals should be campaigned for minibuses for the narrow on residential streets, The root problem is the the commuters to change vehicles. They are streets of the Peninsula. Mercedes-Benz have high level of car dependence. quieter than trams and the capital cost and a 22 passenger bus which is less than 2 Planned and orderly transition to a low car visual pollution of overhead cables in urban meters wide. The front wheel drive allows a dependence would be preferable in terms of s t r e e t s i s a v o i d e d . A n o t h e r f e a t u r e i s t h e l o w floor only 380mm above the road - just a little the preservation of lifestyle options. Various floor with stepless entry of benefit to the above curb height. This vehicle would be ideal approaches to the road traffic problem are aged and disabled. An 0-Bahn bus service is for off-peak service as well as for a shuttle bus presently being studied by the Leichhardt operating successfully in Adelaide and the connecting to ferries. Council's Transport & Traffic Committee. These include light rail, minibus and diai- a-ride services, cycleways and pedestrian provisions. The City West plan to convert the goods railway in Pyrmont to light rail has a private company operating the service as far as the Fish Markets even though the line continues through Lilyfield, Leichhardt. bulwich Hill to Sydenham. The railway is electrified from Rozelle to Sydenham. The relative cost of a tramcar, compared to a bus, has risen corv siderably over last fifty years. The cost of a new Mercedes minibus is $ 100,000 or a large bus $200,000, while quotations for a tramcar exceed $1.5 million. Dual powered (600V ITie city of Itssen has met the increasing challenge individual transfmrt p4>scs to public lransp<.irt. The first electric & diesel) buses are now available that track-guided bus operation cominenced in 1980. Since 1988, the.se bases have shared the city ham tunnel to avoid ^ityjcnuyjigfngjhaos. Passengers etijoy a smooth trip to thecit>- without inter^tions, pa^ cc^e^o^ widowed mother, while next door Maybanke Maybanke Anderson These were busy years for Maybanke: accommodated brother Henry. Maybanke earning a living, petitioning for a divorce, 1845-1927. and her husband Edmund Wolstenholme, serving as president of the Suffrage League. timber merchant of Mailland, whom she had In 1894 she established her own newspaper, married on 3/9/1867. Norman Selfe married the Womens Voice and in it she wrote frankly John Booth's daughter Emily Ann. in 1872. of matters of marriage, sex, divorce and the Norman had been campaigning for better lack of property rights. In July 1895, the technical education in NSW from as early as Kindergarten Union of NSW was instigated to 1865 when he taught the first class in mech provide Free Kindergartens wherever anical drawing at the Mechanics School of possible in poor neighbours. The first one was Arts in Rtt Street. Sydney. in Woolloomooloo in 1896. Maybanke was on In 1 I years of marriage to Edmund, the committee and acted as the first president Maybanke had seven children of whom only till Lady Hampden arrived. three lived longer than five years. Edward, From 1895 to her death in 1927 she Harry and Arthur, who drowned in early adult laboured for the children of the poor to give hood. The marriage was strained because of them practical held in setting up new centres E d m u n d ' s a l c o h o l i s m . i n c i t i e s a s f a r a s A d e l a i d e a n d B r i s b a n e . With Norman Selfe's financial assistance, Australia's first playground opened in 1915 Maybanke, in 1879. moved to a substantial after a powerful pamphlet "Play and house, once more named Maybanke. on the Playgrounds ' published by Maybanke. She comer of Wardell Road and Frazer Street, lived with her friend, Maude Fox of Eversley Marrickvil|e (Now Salvation Army accom 8 Rose Street. Birchgrove, for a time before modation). her marriage to Professor Francis Anderson on 2nd March 1899 at St Andrew's By 1885 the marriage was over. At first Maybanke ran a boarding house to support Congregational Church. Balmain. The her family, then, in July 1882. began her long Church was very advanced in its attitudes, as Carolinedecision Chisholm of the Selfe was Family influential to come in the to association with education, when she opened it not only permitted female ordination, but it Australia. Henry, Bessie and children. a school for young ladies. By 1890 Maybanke also married divorcees. Morman. Henry and Maybanke, arrived on College had enrolled pupils from The Workers Education Association Of the Bangalore on the 13th January 1855. kindergarten to matriculation level, preparing NSW (WEA) was formed in 1913 with both The family spent their first years in Entally them "for all the University of Sydney public Francis and Maybanke contributing their H o u s e , M a r y R e i b e y ' s f o r m e r h o u s e i n examinations". experience as speaker at the conferences. The WEA pamphlet no. 1 was Maybanke's Macquarie Place. Sydney, then moved to the From 1880 to 1927. Maybanke was an Rocks area. Maybanke, born 16/2/1845 in active participant in many movements and "The Root of the Matter". Surry, England had received her unusual events that shaped the democratic institut Maybanke gave 40 years of service as name from her great, great grandfather s sur ions of modern Australia. Law reform, headmistress, philanthropist, professor's name. Maybanke's education had begun in women's suffrage, the growth of a free wife, speaker, donor, hostess, founder and England where she attended a day school, education system with professional teacher patron of numerous associations.
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