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The artist’s impression of the development of Carrington Road Marrickville South with 35-storey towers & 8-storeys next to single storey homes.
Inner West Mayor Darcy Byrne posted the following on his Face Book page today regarding the development of Carrington Road Marrickville South. See – http://bit.ly/2yOu6fO
“Here’s the “artists’ impression” of what Carrington Road, in south Marrickville, would look like if Mirvac’s proposal for 35 storey skyscrapers, including 2600 residential units, were to be approved (that’s Mackey Park on the right of the image).
I’m calling a public meeting at Marrickville Town Hall on Thursday October 19 at 7:30pm to alert the community to the monstrosity the developer has planned.
I’ve seen some bad developments in my time but this is something else. It would:
- Completely eliminate all industrial premises in the precinct – leading to the loss of around 1400 JOBS and the eviction of 138 businesses. That’s the equivalent of sacking the entire Inner West Council staff, in one go.
- Cause traffic chaos throughout south Marrickville.
- Be approximately double the height of the existing overdevelopment over the Cooks River in Wolli Creek.
- Include zero affordable housing and no new community facilities at all.”
The community had an inkling that this development would be big, but no one imagined multiple towers that reach to double the height of the towers at Discovery Point Wolli Creek. It is unacceptable.
Most of the community are accepting of development, but this kind of development will kill our suburbs. Traffic is already at a standstill during peak times with people trying to get on & exit the Princes Highway.
Carrington Road has permanent flood markers because it regularly floods.
I feel sad that this is what is planned. The development looks awful & it will quickly downgrade the quality of life for Marrickville & Tempe residents.
I also feel sad for the 1,400 people who will either lose their job or be required to work in another location. Employment zones should not be rezoned & lost.
As for the planes, towers like this close to a busy airport is madness. It is yet another risk the residents will have to face.
One last thing, I predict that the heritage Palms & Fig trees will not survive this development.
Public Meeting at Marrickville Town Hall
Thursday October 19th 2017
7:30pm

Leichhardt. Photo taken July 2017. This is what will be happening in Sydenham, Marrickville and Dulwich Hill.
We went to last night’s public meeting held by Inner West Council regarding the Sydenham to Bankstown Urban Renewal Corridor Strategy Revised. Marrickville Town Hall was full with plenty standing at the back.
The meeting was called to inform the community about the NSW State Government’s revised plans & Council’s great concern about the plans.
The revised draft Strategy increases the number of proposed new dwellings at Sydenham, Marrickville & Dulwich Hill to 8,500. Broken down this will be –
- Sydenham Station Precinct – 500 new homes
- Marrickville Station Precinct – 6,000 new homes
- Dulwich Hill Station Precinct – 2,000 new homes
[ This does not include the 750 new dwellings at the Victoria Road Precinct that just received approval. Nor does it include the 2,400 new dwellings planned for the Carrington Road Precinct. ]
It was at times hard to hear the speakers & my notetaking skills are poor these days, so I will write the points down that I managed to catch. All mistakes are mine. Inner West Council did video the proceedings so that the community can learn of what is planned for the area, so I will post a link if I come across it.
The Administrator Richard Pearson opened the meeting.
- The original plans came out in 2015. These plans have significant changes. There are higher density & higher infrastructure issues.
- 8,500 new dwellings will be approximately 20,000 new people.
- As a Town Planner myself, there are some serious issues from high-rise around Marrickville & Dulwich Hill Railway Stations where it bleeds into suburban areas.
- The scale of renewal is major. There needs to be parks, schools, greenspace & drainage, plus other infrastructure needs.
- I was surprised at the closing date of 3rd September when the council elections are on 9th
- It is important that the elected Councillors can make submissions. I asked the government that they can put in a supplementary submission & was told verbally that they will be allowed to. I am waiting for this in writing.
John Warburton – Deputy General Manager Community & Engagement
- Our LGA has three areas along the corridor.
- This is not part of a broader planning scheme leading to a lot of issues.
- Lack of practical efforts to make suburbs livable.
- No funding plan to pay for infrastructure.
- There is a loss of too much character & fabric of the Inner West.
- No building designs yet, only maps.
Sydenham –
- Increase of 500 dwellings.
- Gain 700 jobs.
- High-rise near Frasier Park.
- Inner West Council is concerned about loss of industrial land.
- There is a proposed new plaza in front of Sydenham Railway Station.
Marrickville –
- There is a lot of density for Marrickville.
- A lot of high-rise.
- 555 jobs.
- The difference between the Local Environment Plan & the Corridor is profound.
- 2,000 extra dwellings for Leofrene & Schwebel Streets.
- Proposed central plaza opposite the railway station.
- Council has a lot of concern about the loss of single storey housing.
Dulwich Hill
- Slight reduction of 59 dwellings from original plan.
- 5-8 storeys planned for Hercules & Terrace Roads.
- Nothing addressed on how to pay for infrastructure.
- No idea how to find open space.
Jo Haylen MP Labor
- The plans do not reflect our community.
- They have not been written for us. They have been written for developers.
- No sustainability.
- The State Government knows we are a fighting community. We won’t take it lying down.
- Marrickville & Dulwich Hill are being asked to take far too much density – an extra 6,000 new dwellings up from 4,000.
- In Marrickville South the plan ignores the heritage value of the area.
- Marrickville is a heritage suburb. The government’s studies did not include The Warren.
- No targets for the cost of housing.
- Many of the houses to be bulldozed were affordable. This will change the face of Marrickville.
- Dulwich Hill – 561 submissions against the original plans.
- Only a reduction of 59 dwellings.
- The Greek Church & the Maternity Hospital are to be demolished. There is a heritage impact.
- Lack of provision for schools, open space, new services for the 100,000 new residents for the corridor.
- The government should build the infrastructure we need before building the corridor.
- If the Metro line goes ahead it will be built 8-years after the corridor.
- They should be prioritizing Sydney areas that are under-serviced.
- No money for schools, no money for Canterbury Hospital.
- No Affordable Housing or Social Housing.
- Sporting groups have trouble finding places to play.
- No new open space. Linear parks & plazas to be delivered by developers as ‘in kind.’
Mary O’Sullivan – Save Dully Spokesperson
- Only 4 areas in Dulwich Hill subject to heritage analysis in revised plans.
- The Uniting Church at Constitution Road to be developed.
- Maternity Hospital in The Parade to be developed. It’s a beautiful building. No doubt in its heritage.
- Hercules, Terrace & Constitution planned for 8-storeys. There are early examples of wooden Federation houses here.
- Riverside Crescent planned for 5-storeys.
- Open space – a small extension for Jack Shanahan Reserve & a Greenway extension along the Metro, plans to turn the last 4 holes of the Marrickville Golf Course into open space & access to open space at the primary school.
- ‘The Hill’ is the Dulwich Hill Railway Station parking. So, where will people park?
- The government says there will be no commuter parking along the Metro.
Peter Olive – Sydenham to Bankstown Alliance
- We are against the overdevelopment along the corridor & against the Metro train line.
- The Metro is a waste of tax-payers’ money.
- This is a privatization of an existing service, a good functioning part of a rail network.
- It’s an abdication of responsibility to provide public transport in Sydney. Many places do not have a train line.
- There are a number of decisions targeting the Inner West – WestConnex, the Sydenham to Bankstown Corridor, privatising the buses….
Kelsey – Save Marrickville South spokeperson
- We have 4 points for the government.
- 1. No higher than 3-storeys next to single storey houses.
- 2. No higher than 5-storeys in Carrington Road Precinct.
- 3. Plan infrastructure before approving building heights. Plan schools, open space, roads & parking.
- 4. Keep Marrickville’s character & streetscapes.
- Don’t be fooled with the yellow areas on the map. They are labeled low-rise of 2-3 storeys, but they are in the 4-storey area within 500-metres of a railway station.
- Bright red is 8-storeys. If the developer gives up some land for open space it could be taller.
- There are 8-storeys next to single storey family homes.
- Carrington Road development is already in advanced planning stages with Inner West Council & the developer wants higher. It may not be part of the Marrickville Precinct & may increase population density above the plan.
- Up to 25-storeys will block the light from Mackey Park & Tempe.
- The parks are linear & along the rail line & the storm water drain.
- Many of us chose to live in this area because of the character.
At this stage, we left the meeting.
For me it was great to hear professionals from Council & ex-Marrickville Councillors expressing the same concerns I have & more. I have found on Facebook attempts at discussing development in the Inner West are effectively shut down by name calling & citing the need for Affordable Housing & not spreading Sydney even further. The fact that $615,000 for a 25-sq-metre studio apartment in Marrickville is nowhere near affordable does not get a look in. So, to sit & listen to eloquent, sensible & affirming speeches from across the political spectrum was good.
The fact is Inner West Council is seriously concerned at the future livability of our area. This should speak volumes to those nay-sayers who do not want development discussed. If the plans are not modified, we will find ourselves living in an over-populated area, with poor amenity & with services unable to cope. Schools, childcare are at capacity now. The sewerage system was at capacity a few years ago.
The former Marrickville LGA, where the development is happening already has the lowest percentage of green space of any municipality in Australia. Add 20,000 plus new residents….it will be wall to wall people in the parks.
We all need to send in a submission. While 561 submissions from the people of Dulwich Hill is commendable, the government must receive thousands of submissions if this community wants to be heard.
You can find Save Dully on Facebook here – https://www.facebook.com/save.dully/
Save Marrickville South on Facebook here – https://www.facebook.com/SaveMarrickvilleSouth/
The Save Marrickville South submission can be downloaded here — https://goo.gl/forms/xkmwo3IQ338WRyXG3
You can go online & write your own submission here – http://bit.ly/2tfjnMv
The deadline for submissions is Father’s Day Sunday 3rd September 2017.

A good example of housing development along Gardeners Road Alexandria, built right to the footpath. Balconies and major living space face the street where possibly more than 60,000 vehicles pass by every day. It is the same along many other main roads, including in the Inner West Council municipality.
Anyone who is a regular reader of this blog will know that I post fairly often about air pollution & the link to human health. I’ve been pleased to read the recent research about this issue & enjoy having experts agree with what are fundamental beliefs of mine. I once again got that feeling when I read the headline of a recent article in The Conversation titled, ‘Transport access is good for new housing, but beware the pollution.’ See – http://bit.ly/2v0tOEl
The article says that it makes sense to build housing close to public transport, but building high-rise housing along busy roads exposes those people to traffic pollution to the detriment of their health.
The former Department of Planning has a 9-year-old interim guideline titled ‘Development near rail corridors & busy roads to help development limit harmful exposure to air pollution.
“Suggested design measures include:
- building setbacks
- articulation or “stepping” of building façades
- avoiding creation of street canyons; and
- mitigation measures such as greening close to the road.”
Locally high-rise buildings are built right to the footpath, instead of building away from the footpath & putting in a line of trees to make the air quality better for residents. The stepping back of building facades is being suggested in planning documents for the Sydenham to Bankstown Corridor in a bid to lower the impact of an eight storey building being built next to single storey houses.
“The NSW document suggests:
The location of living areas, outdoor space and bedrooms … should be as far as practicable from the major source of air pollution.” If you look, the majority of high-rise developments have balconies that face the street & are attached to living rooms, so this suggestion is obviously not working.
The interim guideline also says, “… it is preferable if residential uses are not carried out along a busy road unless it is part of a development which includes adequate noise and air quality mitigation. So we know that the government at all levels & developers know that the way they are developing Sydney & other major Australian cities is not good for us & will have serious negative health impacts.
Road widening from 4 lanes to 7 lanes along Euston Road in Alexandria as part of exit management from the WestConnex Motorway resulted in the removal of two rows of quite big trees. These trees did much to improve air quality for these residents & also the public who walked along this road. Now the residents will need to adjust from the “up to less than 6,000 [vehicles] a day to more than 50,000 when WestConnex is built.” See – http://bit.ly/2nijiSD
Just how these residents will adjust to living 1.4 metres away from more than 50,000 plus passing vehicles every day is anyone’s guess.
“…..the Sydney Motorway Corporation, RMS and contractors have canvassed the possibility of installing noise insulation, sealing wall vents and installing airconditioning units in apartments that will jut up against the seven-lane road.” So, use your balcony at your own risk then? Even prisoners in gaol get access to fresh air from their cells.
The Conversation article summed the issue up in a nutshell – “We are in a situation where councils can refuse approval for a well-designed, aesthetically pleasing carport in front of a building line, while people’s health is put at risk due to new housing developments along main roads being prioritised. ….The Parramatta Road Corridor is one example of the current approach.”
Nitrogen dioxide pollution “include increases in all-cause, cardiovascular and respiratory mortality and hospital admissions for respiratory and cardiovascular disease, decreased lung function in children, and an increased risk of respiratory symptoms such as asthma, stroke & lung cancer. If left unchecked or unevaluated, planning decisions that put new homes along busy roads are likely to undermine public health protection principles.”

A view into the very large Spring Street Wetlands, which were officially opened in 1994. They have been deemed of “limited ecological value.” Who decided this I don’t know.

Raised boardwalk Landing Lights Wetland with a sign listing the bird species that live in this area.
Some local news to make you gasp.
Developer John Boyd Properties wants to have the Kogarah Golf Course moved so that they can build a 100-hectare development featuring 5,000 new dwellings & a new St George Stadium sports stadium at a cost of $100 million. A development application was submitted to Bayside Council in November 2016. See – http://bit.ly/2j6sY3e
“Peter Munro from the Cooks River Valley Association said there were two key issues: the impact of development on local species, and the alienation of public land. “It’s such a fragile area,” he said. “Botany Bay and its environs contain some of the most important natural but threatened sites on the NSW coast, made all the more remarkable by the fact that the Bay is one of the more developed landscapes in Sydney. “Also once it becomes a golf course, there’s no broad community access. It’s closed to the public.”
The relocated golf course will be built “across 52 hectares of parkland in the southern precinct of the Cook Cove site, which takes in Barton Park, a number of wetlands, and the heritage-listed Arncliffe Market Gardens.”
To soften the community the developers say they will build a public walkway through the golf course, a bird-watching space near the Landing Lights Wetlands & ponds for the green & golden bell frogs. The M5 6-lane motorway is expected to go through this area.
In the Development Application, the Spring Street Wetland was deemed of “limited ecological value” & so will be removed. This area is thick with trees & mangroves. If you stand & listen, you can hear the tweeting of many little birds. This habitat is perfect for them. Undoubtedly other wildlife calls this area home, but I have not walked through this wetland.
The developer says that they will remediate Landing Lights Wetland, the surrounding saltmarsh & mangroves thereby creating new habitat for endangered green & golden bell frogs & migratory wading birds.
The fact is that all the wildlife that use & fly across the world from as far away as Siberia to the Landing Lights Wetland are doing really well without human intervention. Yes, many years ago a couple of roads have been built & there is a run-down empty stadium, but on the whole, the land has been left alone for decades, apart from remediation efforts by the council & the community.
Bayside Council (nee Rockdale Council) says on their website –
- “Although highly urbanised, the City has retained several small bushland and wetland areas which play an important role in terms of providing food, habitat and shelter for native animals. These areas are deemed to have ‘conservation value’ (meaning they are worth preserving for future generations) because they represent ecosystems that would otherwise be lost.”
- “These remaining natural areas are home to particularly diverse, endangered and/or vulnerable species of flora and fauna. A total of 180 native plant species and over 90 vertebrate species of terrestrial animals (not including marine fish) have been identified in the City’s bushland and wetlands.”
- “Landing Lights Wetland (also known as Riverine Park Wetlands), located at Spring Street, Banksia is one of Council’s most environmentally significant natural areas. The site contains some of the last remaining saline wetlands on the Cooks River and includes vegetation identified as threatened under NSW legislation (salt-marsh).”
- “The wetlands have aesthetic, heritage and environmental value. They form part of a system of tidal and freshwater swamps, and provide important habitats for a variety of animal and plant species, including common wetland birds and a number of protected migratory birds.”
I presume the birds, frogs & other wildlife will need to fit in to pockets created in the new golf course. Seriously, how will this work? How will they save & relocate the green & gold frog? How will migratory birds adapt so fast to radical changes to their habitat that has been here for thousands of years?
The developer also says this area contaminates the Cooks River. The Cooks River is contaminated by storm water outlets along the length of the river. However, wetlands that have been here for thousands of years naturally & perfectly clean the water before it reaches Botany Bay. I cannot see why it wouldn’t do the same for any water that goes from the wetlands to the river either. It would be horrible to leave all the other pollution problems of the river as is & destroy remnant wetlands in the name of improving the water quality of the river.
This wet & boggy land will need to be filled in to allow people to play golf. To me this is a tragedy. Why is this precious remnant wetland even up for development?
I understand the concerns of the Kogarah Golf Club for their security of tenure, as they rent from Sydney Airport & Bayside Council. Their website says they have “been in existence for over 80 years,” so tenure seems pretty solid. What is unfortunate is that the golf course has temporarily lost 9-holes to the building of the M5 twin tunnels as part of connecting the WestConnex motorway. There will also be a ventilation stack within the golf course, which is not good. However, it comes down to a ventilation stack in a golf course or a ventilation stack in amongst high-rise housing.
And then there are the trees. Like any golf course, Kogarah Golf Course has possibly thousands of trees & some of these trees are spectacular & should be classified as ‘significant’ & protected. Many of these trees will likely be lost to high-rise development. This whole green space will be lost to development.
It’s not a good counterargument to say that there will be new trees in the new golf course. It takes time for new trees to grow & importantly, the destruction of remnant biodiversity rich wetlands for a golf course is a patently poor exchange.
In reality, all this environmental destruction will be happening so a developer can sell apartments that have water views of the Cooks River, Wolli Creek, Muddy Creek & of Botany Bay. Water views spell MONEY – big money.
My impression of Bayside Council when I have spoken with them is that they are fiercely protective & proud of their natural environment. Their website confirms this. They have done some brilliant work along the Wetland Highway & Botany Bay. My hope is that Bayside Council refuse this development application, protect Landing Lights Wetland & the other wetlands & allow them to remain undeveloped into perpetuity.
Our city is changing fast & it is likely that in the next 10-15 years our suburbs will contain more high-rise than not. Pockets of biodiversity rich habitat will become even more precious & rare. These places will be vitally important to help the wildlife survive – else there will be very little of worth & no connectivity & we as a community will be much poorer as a result.
If you want to learn more & see the natural landscape that is at risk, you can watch ‘The Corridor.’ “The Corridor” explores the conflict between our desire to hold on to natural areas and the ever-pressing push for development, concentrating on one location, and one road. The location is Rockdale, NSW, Australia. The road is the F6 extension.” This video was made in 2015 before the issue of 5,000 new dwellings & the relocation of the golf course was publically raised. It’s an interesting & informative video with anti-development & pro-development sides represented & is well worth watching. – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDFXrqs5E-Q
You can download the development proposal here – http://bit.ly/2iORRgI While it all looks & sounds great, no new development can ever replace the wild nature of remnant lands.
Anyone can put in a submission regarding this development application because it is significant to the whole of Sydney. You can send a submission to Bayside Council at council@bayside.nsw.gov.au quoting ‘DA-2017/179.’ The deadline for submissions is Friday 27th January 2017.

DA image of relocation of Kogarah Golf Course. The top shows the current location of the Kogarah Golf Course & the bottom image shows where it will be relocated to if the Development Application is approved by Bayside Council. The land for the relocated golf course is massive & will require the destruction of biodiversity rich wetlands. What is now 52 hectares of public land will be a private golf course & the current golf course will be high-rise housing. This is not a win for the community, but more especially, it is devastating for the wildlife.

This is a very big tree – one of hundreds of big trees that will be removed to widen Campbell Street & Euston Road for the WestConnex Motorway

The trees in Euston Road are big, much bigger than the street trees we are used to seeing in what until recently, was Marrickville municipality. Stand here and all you can here is birdsong, especially Fig birds.

Every tree you see is to be removed. Just past the grass is the lower pond filled with water birds. It appears that the land taken by WestConnex will come very close to this pond.
We have just returned from the ‘Save Sydney Park Festival’ organised by the WestConnex Action Group & Reclaim the Streets. We also visited the Camp of residents who have stayed in the park for the past 13 days. It has not been without drama though. At 3am on 20th September, police evicted the camp & the WestConnex Authority came & fenced off the campsite. The Camp moved further up the park & re-pitched their tents. Today a lone security guard sat in the fenced off area protecting the trees from the community for the WestConnex Authority. Taxpayers’ dollars at work. It’s the community which wants to save the trees.
The WestConnex Authority is preparing to chop down hundreds of trees along Campbell Street & Euston Road St Peters. If this wasn’t bad enough, they also intend to encroach 12-metres into Sydney Park itself & remove many mature trees, shrubs & gardens.
The WestConnex Action Group ( http://www.westconnexactiongroup.org.au ) says that, “The State Government is cutting down more than 350 trees & taking 14,000 square metres of Sydney Park to build their dirty toll road.”
The WestConnex Action Group has spent a significant number of people hours tying blue fabric around each tree to be removed. There is blue everywhere you look. Hundreds of decades old trees will be felled. Even worse is the blue fabric around massive trees inside Sydney Park. It is also reasonable to think that any tree within 10-metres of the work zone would also be at risk of dying if their roots extend into the work zone, so perhaps more precious trees will be casualties of this motorway.
Sydney Park may seem like a big park, but we don;t have much green space in the area & to lose any is terrible. Sydney Park is only across the road from the boundary of the old Marrickville Municipality. The old Marrickville municipality has the least green space in Australia. Therefore, Sydney Park is used a lot by this community, plus the community of the City of Sydney municipality & the numerous visitors who travel significant distance to spend time in the park. No wonder. It is a beautiful park that just keeps on improving every year.
So for the WestConnex Authority to take a whopping 14,000 square metres of Sydney Park in an area with very little green space is a huge loss.
Campbell Street & Euston Road St Peters will be widened into 6 lanes taking traffic from the St Peters Interchange (colloquially known as the Spaghetti Junction) to Alexandria, Mascot & Newtown then into surrounding roads originally built for horses with carts. The traffic bottle necks are going to be very frustrating to drivers & for the local community who are going to be hit with far more traffic than they have ever experienced, plus associated air pollution & health issues from the pollution.
The St Peters Interchange itself is massive & one wonders why it needs to be so large. Looking at the plans it looks to be three-quarters the size of Sydney Park.
An article published three days ago in the Telegraph, (which I am unable to access again to give you the link) said that 85,000 square metres of new parkland will be created under & around the St Peters Interchange. The new parkland will come with two ventilation stacks. The first public space is due to be opened in 2019 & the second in 2023.
Now I don’t know about you, but we will be very unlikely to choose to spend our time outdoors under a freeway spaghetti junction with particulate matter dropping down on us from the vehicles traveling above & pollution from the two ventilation stacks. It won’t matter how green the grass is.
It seems that the WestConnex Authority has carte blanche to seize public green space for this motorway. Just a couple of weeks ago they levelled 1.4 hectares of critically endangered REMNANT Cooks River Castlereagh Ironbark forest in Wolli Creek for a TEMPORARY car park. Unbelievable! See – http://bit.ly/2cpNw1i This action is a big fat “we just don’t care about the environment” by the WestConnex Authority, aka the NSW government.
The WestConnex Authority tried it on for historic Ashfield Park wanting to destroy heritage trees & take away community green space, again for a car park. See – http://bit.ly/2dkCivB Thankfully the community won & Ashfield Park was saved. Hopefully Sydney Park can also be saved.
My question to the NSW Government is – why do you choose to rob the Inner West community of green space? Why not purchase the industrial buildings across the road from Sydney Park to provide the space needed to widen the road? They certainly did not hesitate to force people out of their homes, so why not the same equity for industrial properties? Or why not build better public transport?
We looked around, spoke to numerous people & heard the anger, dismay & the concern for the park, the trees & the wildlife. Then we cycled around for a good look at what is proposed to be lost to road. Of concern is the wildlife – the Bell frogs, the Tawny frogmouths & number other birds & all the other creatures that live in the trees to be removed. The area subsumed comes mighty close to the bottom pond, which is also of concern. Hopefully my photos will show what is to be lost more effectively than my words.

Everywhere I looked I saw big trees and blue ribbons indicating that these trees were to be chopped down. All the trees in the centre of the photograph are also in the area to be claimed by the WestConnex Authority.

The Town and Country Hotel at St Peter’s -immortalised in the Duncan song by Slim Dusty & also a casualty of WestConnex. PS. In the Sun-Herald today, 2nd October 2016, there is an article titled, ‘Legal row leaves pub with no beer.’ In a nutshell, the Town and Country Hotel “fought off the threat from an extension to WestConnex….” So I was wrong. This iconic pub survives.

Carrington Road Marrickville South – I was interested to see that the artists impression incuded these heritage Canary Island palm trees & the cycle path.
It is worth having a look at the ‘artist’s impression’ of development supposed to be coming to Carrington Road Marrickville in today’s Sydney Morning Herald. Of note is that this area has always been zoned industrial & is prone to flooding. See – http://bit.ly/1VQQzSQ
Thankfully Marrickville Council did not leap on the bandwagon.
“Marrickville Council was immediately sceptical about aspects of the plan. A spokeswoman said the council supported increasing densities around stations, but “a lighter touch that allows new forms of dense housing that can work with the established pattern of streets and the grain of the subdivision is essential”.
In October 2013 I wrote about the plans I found for two 23-storey towers, part of a massive development for the eastern side of Carrington Road. The state government plans include high-rise on both sides of Carrington Road. See – http://bit.ly/1NceS6k
One good thing about the plans is the revival of The Greenway, which was dumped by the NSW state government in 2013.
Where will people work if we lose our industrial lands?
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