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CUB SITE - WHAT YOU CAN DO - 16 June 2006
Following is a breif report from the Coalition Chippendale Community Groups about the 15 June 2006 meeting and proposals for action to try and stop control of the site being taken over by the Minister of Planning Frank Sartor. The site was made State Significant on 21 June 2006.
Thanks to all those who
were able to come to last night’s meeting at the Medina Executive. Despite the venue being near Central, the room
was overflowing – with the media there.
As you know, the Central
Sydney Planning Committee (which determines major development s in the City of
Sydney Local Government area), voted last week to ask the Minister for Planning,
Frank Sartor, to take control of the planning and approval processes for the CUB
site (with 4 Government nominees in favour and 3 COS Councillors voting
against).
At this stage the Minister
has not yet taken control.
At the meeting, Council
gave a project update and showed the proposed controls which were due to go on
exhibition any day, i.e. before the Government’s intervention.
We now do not know what will happen.
Whilst many in the audience
wanted the Lord Mayor to take action to reduce what’s currently proposed, given
the Government’s intervention, the immediate thing is to make sure the project
is not called in, which will hinder public debate.
To ensure this does NOT
happen, we need you to immediately lobby some key politicans so
that the Minister, Frank Sartor, does NOT choose to exercise this power.
You can do this
by:
1. Sending a short and simple
email/fax/letter to express your protest:
- The Premier
- The Opposition Leader, Peter Dednam
- The Planning Minister, Frank Sartor
- The Lord Mayor and Local Member for Bligh, Clover Moore
2. Watch out for the issue on talkback
radio. Here we ask you to call in.
3. Write letters to
daily and local papers, eg letters@smh.com.au
Further below is an outline
of a sample letter.
We also enclose a copy of a
flyer, which we handed out to attendees at last night’s meeting. This shows how the draft planning controls for
the CUB site, compare to controls in other areas.
For those who were
interested in reading the Jury report, which followed the previously held Design
Competition, this can be found via Council’s website search facility – just type
in Jury Report.
Once again we encourage you
to lobby hard.
Kind
regards
The
Coalition Chippendale Community Groups - Like to receive updates, email communityworkingparty@yahoo.com.au.
SAMPLE EMAIL/LETTER
I wish to strongly register
my protest against the Minister for Planning, Frank Sartor taking control of the planning
and approval processes for the Carlton United Brewery site in
Chippendale.
This is a blatant power and
money grab by the Government which facilitates enormous windfall profits for
Fosters.
The Minister’s unwanted
last minute interference in legitimate Council and CSPC’s processes can only be
described as more Government spin.
I strongly support control
of this project remaining with the City of Sydney.
Yours
sincerely
