Truck Off CoFA can reveal that UNSW was offered but declined use of a purpose-built design facility just down the road.
Oh look! A vacant design skool that COFA was offered but strangely declined.
By the way, it's still vacant and its owners are ready and willing to talk, CoFA.
By the way, it's still vacant and its owners are ready and willing to talk, CoFA.
The university has consistently stated that it has pursued all avenues to relocate its student numbers in order to fulfil its DA commitments to use the uninhabited Greens Road for construction access.
However representatives of a vacant design facility just a few hundred metres away have told Truck Off COFA that they offered the large six-storey professional school building to UNSW in 2009. The university said it was not interested.
The swish new designer building can house up to 900 students and is a stone’s throw from the Paddington CoFA campus. So much for UNSW's claims that it has done everything it possibly can to avoid upending residential streets for its construction and has looked everywhere to relocate students.
Plenty of room in here! Nice and designery too.
In UNSW’s Development Application for the campus, it told consent authorities and residents that affected areas of the College would be “vacated prior to commencement”, and that, “staff and students will be decanted to other spaces on-site or to off-site locations for all or part of the duration of the redevelopment”.
Student relocation was to enable the creation of a large vehicle access into the campus off its Greens Road public frontage through Block F. It would allow UNSW to meet Director-General of Planning requirements for measures that “specifically protect residential amenity from truck movements".
When UNSW suddenly announced its intention to use residential streets at the rear of the campus instead of Greens Road, it repeatedly stated that it had tried and failed to find alternative digs for students elsewhere.
And so, regrettably they cried, we have to dig up your landscaped streets and parks, and turn your one-way heritage streets into two-lane truck corridors. There is simply nothing else to be done. Ever so bloody sorry, but.
Yet, now we discover (though always suspected) that this is patently untrue.
The educational building, at 2 Short Street, is still available and its representatives tell Truck Off CoFA they would welcome UNSW’s call.
The purpose-built design facility is just down the road. Just follow the dotted line to this easy-fix solution. Or, is it possible UNSW is not actually serious about protecting residential amenity?
By both omission and diversionary error and distortion of fact, UNSW has continually been “economical with the truth”.
This is a strange way for the UNSW to adhere to its stated strategic intent, its “integrity and high ethical standards”, and its “professionalism, accountability and transparency”.
The Community expects better from an institution such as UNSW.
5 comments:
Come on TruckoffCoFA gets your facts right. Even from your own pictures it is clear it is a seven storey building, not six as stated.
A stones throw, who are you kidding. If you go to mapmyrun.com.au you can accurately measure the distance - its 300 metres, which would equate to less than a three minute walk between sites. I'd like to see truckoffcvofa throw a stone 300 metres.
Also, what about street parking. This is important to the students as they need parking, illegal or otherwise. Come on Trcukoffcofa, raise your game, this is a university we are talking about, not some old heritage backstreet to run trucks through.
Dean, it has a mezzanine,
That counts as one floor,
If you know what I mean.
Mr/Ms TOC
Mezzanine. Dam, you caught me out there.
Thanks for the www.mapmyrun.com.au calculation Dean.
If, however, you go to www.sausagemywalks.com they measure the distance as 2,200 .... sausages - standard pork sausages. A more sophisticated measurement than mere metres, they take into consideration:
1) distance (in sausages)
2) likelihood of alien abduction
3) how many gold medals Australia wins in the Winter Olympics
4) time spent updating your Facebook account whilst "sausaging"
5) authenticity and reputation of Public Institutions involved
Plugging these variables into the "mysausagewalks" model (known as the sausage machine), we find that the outcome is excellent. In fact, it's what they call a Win-Win situation.
So, the conclusion is that if CoFA and UNSW use the purpose built design facility on Short Street, alien abductions fall and the reputation of CoFA and UNSW rises considerably.
KEEP ON SAUSAGING (rather than Trucking)
Dear Truck Off Cofa,
Who exactly are the representatives of this vacant faculty?
and where can I find information about this site?
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