Frasers Broadway Amended Concept Plan

Frasers Property's vision for 6 green star urban quarter on Broadway

This in the Media Release and Background Media Briefs from the Frasers Media Conference to announce the Amended Concept plan Application on 8th April 2008.

Community Groups letter to Minister over revised Concept Plan - 20 April 2008

The Coalition Chippendale Community Groups has written to Minister Sartor expressing their concerns about the increase in floor space Frasers have anounced for their revised concept Plan for the former Broadway CUB site. Below is a copy of the letter sent by the Chippendale Groups.

Frasers Broadway Community Information Session – Wednesday 9 July, 2008 5pm

Frasers have arranged a Community Information Session for Wednesday 9 July 2008 from 5pm to 8pm at the Fosters Brewery Office, Broadway. As requested by community representatives Frasers advise there will extensive opportunities to discuss the modified plans with the project team at an initial informal display session.

CUB Site Meeting 9th July 2008 – Coalition Chippendale Community Groups Comments

The Coalition Chippendale Community Groups has circulated the following background for the Fraser’s Exhibition and Briefing on their new Concept Plan for the site this Wednesday 9th July. While the Plans will be on display from 5pm there will be a briefing on the plans starting at 6.30pm. The Exhibition and Presentation is being held on site at the former brewery with entry from the main Gate on Broadway near the clare hotel. The text of the CCCG’s Chippendale News follows:

Frasers Broadway Modified Concept Plan - Fact sheet - 6th July 2008

This Fact Sheet was handed out at the Fraser’s Information evening on 9th July 2008. In the Update below Frasers Property have summarised the changes in the Concept Plan. What is not particularly clear is that the revised concept plan proposed by Frasers seeks to increase the floor space allowed on the site by about 9% on that already approved for the site. Please note this text is produced by Optical Character Recognition and may contain errors. As the exhibition documents are still being finalised between the Department of Planning and Frasers and it will be another couple of weeks before the final documents are available on the Frasers Broadway web site, this summary is being provided for those who were unable to attend the Frasers information evening.

Space-age development plan sends some locals into orbit

GEORGE JETSON would approve but a developer's vision for futuristic apartment blocks on the Carlton United Brewery site in Broadway has drawn a mixed response from residents reports Sunanda Creagh Urban Affairs Reporter in the Sydney Morning Herald of July 11, 2008.

Major Project Concept Plan Modification - Former CUB Site, Broadway (MP 06_0171 MOD)

A Major Project Application has been lodged with the Department of Planning for the Modification of the Major Project Concept Plan for the Former CUB Site Broadway. The details of the Department of Planning listing is given below.

Coalition Chippendale Community Groups Initial Response to Frasers Concept Plan

This is a copy of Chippendale News of 6th August 2008 from the Coalition Chippendale Community Groups. This issue primarily deals with The Fraser's Modified Concept Plan for the Former CUB Broadway site (on Exhibitions). It also includes information on: Balfour Street Park - Meeting 6pm - Thur 7 Aug / Urban Design Study - Changes to planning controls / Plans for Eveleigh / Chippendale “Peepshow”.

Fraser's Broadway Concept Plan from Wattle and Broadway

This is a montage from the Fraser's Modified Concept Plan of the Building on the corner of Abercrombie and Broadway from Wattle Street.

Residents Montage from Wattle Street - Before

This is a resident's photo the corner of Abercrombie Street and Broadway from Wattle Street. I has been used as the basis for a montage to show a before and after comparison of the corner.

Resident's Montage from Wattle Street - After

This is a resident's photo montage of the corner of Abercrombie Street and Broadway from Wattle Street based on the Frasers Modified Concept Plan.

Fraser's Broadway Modified Concept Plan from Sydney University Fisher Library

This is a photo montage from Frasers of the Broadway Modified concept from Fisher Library at Sydney University.

A manicured elephant? Plans for CUB site revealed

Australian musician Chris Gillespie sings a song about an M2 Cockatoo who’s disgusted to find his peaceful bushland home turned into a motorway. Walking home from the latest community information session at the old Carlton United Brewery site on Wednesday July 9, I couldn’t help humming the disgruntled cockatoo’s ballad. The Fraser Company’s proposed development won’t uproot any people or wildlife from their home, but the bird’s sensation of irrelevance in the face of progress is the same writes Benjamin Ball in the South Sydney Herald of August 2008.

Brewery site plan is heritage threat: locals

THE character and culture of inner-city Chippendale is under threat, say residents, from a proposal by the developer of a giant urban renewal project at Broadway to increase the amount of floor space on the site by 10 per cent writes Wendy Frew Urban Affairs Editor in the Sydney Morning Herald of August 8, 2008.

Community Groups Urge You to Comment on the Plans for Former CUB Site

This is a copy of Chippendale News of 17th August 2008 from the Coalition Chippendale Community Groups. This issue deals with The Fraser's Modified Concept Plan for the Former CUB Broadway site (on Exhibitions)

Chippendale residents eager to ditch ‘least leafy suburb’ tag

When it comes to public parks, Lindsay Charles reckons Chippendale would get the wooden spoon reports Patrick Billings in City news on 17th August 2008.

Combined Chippendale Community Groups Update - 1st September 2008

Last Thursday community representatives met with Frank Sartor, the Minister for Planning about the proposed changes to the Concept Plan.