GREENS - Heffron - The future of the Eveleigh railyards must be for the community, not big business.
"It is wonderful to see adaptive reuse of rail buildings. The efforts of the theatre and of local people to ensure the history lives on through tours and oral histories is to be commended. Unfortunately what has been done with the Carriage Works theatre is unlikely to be replicated across the remainder of the rail yards", says Ben Spies-Butcher.
"The Redfern Waterloo Authority and the State Government are planning 12-story buildings over heritage sites in south Eveleigh. It is difficult to image this will leave any genuine heritage value - it is a gross overdevelopment."
"Our conception of heritage
is very different. We need living history, the maintenance of rail use,
alongside the adaptive reuse of buildings."
"Amazingly the Government
have proposed a development in South Eveleigh with over 700 car parking spaces
- next to one of the biggest train stations in Sydney. How can this be justified?" said
Lee Rhiannon.
Ms Rhiannon says that "The Greens are committed to preserving our urban heritage. The Carridgeworks is an example of what could be done over the whole Eveleigh site."