Do a little dance....make a little love....get down tonight....

The video of KC and the Sunshine Band has been taken down.
It was inappropriate in its celebratory display. We apologise.

Whilst some of us are pleased that the recommendations are favourable to us - there are others in the community who are likely to be even worse off. In particular, those in Napier Street, who will have their pocket park ripped out, 27 months of truck mayhem, with the 4-5 months of excavation and shoring mooted to have 20-30 trucks per day.

This is still a unconscionable impost on the community. We must stridently object at the Traffic Committee meeting on Friday

The Latest The Latest The Latest!!

Just in via email from Michael Soo at the Council - these recommendations for the Traffic Committee Meeting.

The full set of recommendations can be downloaded from here.
We've just grabbed a couple of key points:

Recommendations from the Traffic Committee
B) That the Construction Traffic Management Plan be amended so that all demolition, excavation and construction phase traffic will enter and leave the site directly from/to Greens Road (which additionally includes access to Greens Road from the Council owned Napier Street road closure) except for vehicles required for works along the Selwyn Street frontage where access cannot be obtained from Green’s Road as noted in (C), and amended to reflect all other conditions.

With exceptions:
C) Exceptions to (B) include the delivery of fencing, hoardings, tree protections, screens, site establishment, bins/skips and equipment of light strip out and asbestos removal and the like for the buildings which are the subject of the redevelopment fronting Selwyn Street. These exceptions, including the occasional delivery and removal of equipment to demolish buildings, are permitted to be delivered and removed using Selwyn Street during the demolition phase only or via Josephson Street and Selwyn Street for equipment that cannot be delivered via the Napier Street road closure during all phases of work.

Naturally we'll need time to digest and discuss. But some of us are doing a little dance!

High Noon for COFA/UNSW

Sydney Traffic Committee - extraordinary meeting on Friday 12 March 2010
Construction Traffic Management Plan (CTMP) for the College of Fine Arts - Paddington

This an an extraordinary meeting specifically called to go over COFA/UNSW's latest CTMP and to hear our objections. Lets all go! There are rules if you want to speak, so read on...

Remembrances

Photo essay
(Click on the image to see it enlarged)
 

REMEMBER ME. BECAUSE IT'S ALL GOING TO CHANGE.

George Clarke Park – once a pretty place to have lunch.

There are four images altogether. 
Click on "Read more" below to see them all

We'd like to say thank you

Thank you one and all.
For your shared concern, your ideas, your work and your kind thoughts. And for all the letters and the hundreds of signatures on the petition.

Σας ευχαριστώ
Merci
Grazie
ありがとう
Gracias
Danke
당신을 감사하십시오
Вы
Obrigado
Dank u
谢谢

What do you think about COFA/UNSW's new plan?

Out of the mouths of:
– babes
– residents
– concerned citizens
– and cartoon characters.

We're in the Wenty again!

Click on image to enlarge

The Challenge

Our challenge is to get as many objections as possible to Council by this Friday, 5 March.

I ask you to support our neighbours – those who live in Albion Avenue, Selwyn Street, Greens Road and Napier Street.  But actually, all of us will be effected by the noise, vibrations, truck traffic and disruption, and destruction of pocket parks and gardened areas for more than 25 months.
How can you help? – there's two easy ways:

1. Send an email to the City Councillors – we've made it simple.
Just go to the contacts page - we've got a link that automatically puts all the email addresses into your email. There are four key points that'll make the council sit up and listen – we've listed them below.The smarty-pants people in the community say that we should all make a point of mentioning them.
To email all the councillors in one go, click HERE
Or go to the contacts page:
Contacts page link

2. Sign the petition
A petition will be circulated this week. Everyone in the house can sign.
We look forward to your support, it affects us all.

The 4 Key Points
CTMP stands for Construction Traffic Management Plan
1. The CTMP does not comply with statutory approvals already obtained.
2. The CTMP does not comply with commitments made by the UNSW.
3. The CTMP contradicts the entire basis on which the DA was negotiated by UNSW, Council and the Community.
4. The CTMP, if approved, imposes a huge impost on the well being and amenity of the adjoining residential area.

It really is crunch time now. So send the email. Get everyone in the house to sign the petition.
In fact - get everyone in the house to send a separate email too! And come back here often to check for developments.

Once you've done that – you can also become a follower – the more people the better – by going over to the right hand side of the webpage and clicking "Follow". You can also click on "Tweet this" if you're a Twitterer, or the Facebook Icon if you're a Facebooker. Cool huh?