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Thursday, February 25, 2010

How COFA vandals plan to trash the precinct

Here's Napier Street Park, a long-established street closure. 
CoFA & UNSW plans to rip it out to gain access for its trucks.
They plan to use this access, which is clearly within sight of Oxford Street, for 25 months. During the busiest 5 months, there'll be 40 truck movements per day - including Saturday.

This is Albion Avenue. It's part of a one-way network of streets that fringe that back of the CoFA campus. CoFA & UNSW wants to rip out the landscaped islands and the roundabout and turn the street into a two-way truck corridor for nearly three years. CoFA claims publicly that it only wants to use the street for the 2 to 3 month demolition period, but yet it has sought Council permission to use it for the entire development process. These are very short, tiny streets, so the impact on people living here will be massive.

This is Selwyn Street, a tiny cul-de-sac at the rear of the campus. This is where CoFA & UNSW wants to drive its trucks and construction vehicles in and out of the campus.

And this is Greens Road, a great big non-residential collector road that fronts the campus. This is the road CoFA refuses to use. There are no houses, no people, no pedestrians, no trees to pull down, no city wildlife to kill or drive away, no garden islands to trash.
Why won't they use it?

This is CoFA's Greens Road loading dock. This is where CoFA told consent authorities - both the City of Sydney Council and the NSW Planning Minister – it would access the campus in its Development Application. This is where CoFA told residents construction access would be, in hand-on-heart community meetings to ensure no objections were raised to its DA.

This is where CoFA deemed the best solution in its Environmental Assessment report on the redevelopment project, which stated that residential impact measures were "a key issue for this development given the significant demolition and construction within a mixed-use neighbourhood with residential dominant to the West and South".

Here's a little orienteering lesson, CoFA. Greens Road faces East - and nobody lives there!

3 comments:

Rob said...

Oh well, so much for the city of villages, let alone the creation of small quiet residential havens - Taylor Square, Riley Street, Pockets of Darlinghurst, the list is endless.

Jenny Holzer, the American contemporary artist famously exhibited the words - Abuse of Power Comes As No Surprise.

Words which are both fitting and apt for CoFA

Anonymous said...

?????????????? WHY= WHY= WHY ??????????????????

*** GREENS ROAD = GREEN SOLUTION ***

?????????????? WHY= WHY= WHY ????????????????

Anonymous said...

If this thing gets through Council...
then the I.C.A.C. will have a ball
chasing after all the crooked $300
per hour consultants.

Go get em guys.