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Ku-ring-gai Residents Alliance
We oppose the plans forover-development and excessive
high-rise in Ku-ring-gai
WE NEED YOUR HELP ! !
Under the NSW ALP Government’s Sydney Metropolitan strategy an additional 10,000 dwellings are to be constructed in Ku-ring-gai between 2004 and 2031.
Our two local state MPs are agreeing with the state ALP Government's target of 10,000 dwellings for Ku-ring-gai.
At the time of next year’s election (March 2011) we extrapolate from council’s data that only around 6,000 new dwelling DAs will have been approved in Ku-ring-gai.
We want to limit new high-rise developments in Ku-ring-gai to the 6,000 dwellings. Our local state MP’s are thus supporting a further 4,000 new dwellings post the election.
4,000 additional dwellings are equivalent to another 100 new five-storey, high-rise blocks, about an additional 12,000 residents and about an additional 8,000 cars on our already congested roads.
Mr O'Farrell is quoted in the North Shore Times (Friday 15th October, 2010) as saying that he ‘has as much chance of halting development in Ku-ring-gai as unscrambling an omelet'.
However, the Ku-ring-gai Residents’ Alliance has prepared a recipe for Mr O’Farrell to ‘unscramble an omelet’ and limit dwellings to 6,000.This Blueprint recipe was mentioned in the North Shore Times (3rd November, 2010) and the recipe can be found in full below....
1) Restore planning power to council by disbanding the Ku-ring-gai Planning panel (the Panel's contract expires in March 2011 anyway)
2) Subject to the status of the Town Centres Local Environment Plan (LEP) as at March 2011 (currently LEP being litigated by Friends of Turramurra) council can then issue a new LEP with reduced heights and dwelling numbers and other revisions (a new LEP can override existing LEP(s))
3) The new Liberal Planning Minister can gazette the new LEP(s) (the Minister must be willing to accept an LEP providing for less than 10,000 total Metro Strategy Ku-ring-gai dwellings)
4) Disband the Joint Regional Planning Panels. These bodies approve developments over $10Million and Council developments over $5Million -which effectively mean most high-rise blocks and Council projects. (If these Panels are not disbanded then giving power back to Ku-ring-gai council is meaningless, as large developments will still go ahead, approved by these bodies).
5) Repeal Part 3A of the Act –which currently provides for developments that, in the opinion of the Planning Minister, are of State or regional environmental planning significance and includes large private developments over $100Million. These developments are taken over by the state government with few, if any, merit appeal rights by objectors and with overriding decision making by the Planning Minister.
6) Review and change the Metro Strategy and its targets. The Metro Strategy is purely a policy document that can be changed by the new government. The Labor Party is also currently reviewing the Metro Strategy and its targets and released a discussion paper in March 2010 Sydney Towards 2036.
You may wish to send an email to Ku-ring-gai's two local MPs, Mr Barry O'Farrell (LOP@parliament.nsw.gov.au) and Mr Jonathan O'Dea (davidson@parliament.nsw.gov.au), urging them to adopt a comprehensive intelligent planning policy that takes into account all the possibilities such as green field development, satellite cites and development of regional areas and meanwhile for them to publicly pledge to limit new high-rise developments in Ku-ring-gai to the 6,000 dwellings figure, not the 10,000 target they want to respect (North Shore Times 1.10.10 and 15.10.10).
Please also email your concerns to the North Shore Times at letters@northshoretimes.com.au
You are not alone. Of more than 700 votes cast in the October 2010 North Shore Times’ online poll, 96 per cent wanted new dwellings capped at 6000. Our elected representatives must listen to the community.
Our previous campaign.....
Click here to see the Media coverage
Other Media:
SMH: Timetable cut to rail services
ABC7:30 : Population rising steeply
SMH: Tell 'em they're dreaming
NST: Follow the Hearse
NST: O'Farrell needs a kick says Caton
Tele: Aussie celebs draw battle lines
SMH: Friendless and furious
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