Save Leamington Avenue Meeting - 5 July 2010

SAVE LEAMINGTON AVENUE - SAVE OUR HOMES 

MEETING FOR RESIDENTS AND SUPPORTERS

MONDAY 5 JULY, 5.15pm - 7.15pm

DARLINGTON PUBLIC SCHOOL

(cnr Abercrombie St and Golden Grove, entrance in Abercrombie St)

On 4 June the Sydney Morning Herald reported that Railcorp is considering resuming and demolishing a block of historic houses in North Newtown to make way for a controversial new CityRail ''relief line''.  We have confirmed that this is a real and imminent threat involving all of Leamington Ave and several properties at the bottom of Pine and Holdsworth Streets.  Up to 34 families  face the heartache of  losing their homes and the amenity of the adjoining streets would be destroyed.  Leamington Ave, along with Pine, Randle and Holdsworth Streets, forms part of the historic Pines Estate Heritage Conservation Area.

•      Our homes are at risk.
•      Our community is at risk.
•      Our neighbourhood heritage is at risk.

Transport NSW will decide on its 'preferred rail alignment' in the coming months.  We have a narrow window of opportunity to defeat this proposal. 

Please join us for a meeting with:

• Carmel Tebbutt, MP, Deputy Premier and Member for Marrickville
• Kirsty Ruddock, Environmental Defenders Office
• Chris Meale, Project Manager for City Relief Line, Transport NSW (invited)
• Representative from Sydney City Council (invited)

For more information on the issue see http://www.redwatch.org.au/RWA/statesignificant/northeveleigh/rail or contact Sue McCready at saveleamingtonavenue@gmail.com.