A new website for the NO LEWISHAM TOWERS campaign has been launched: www.nolewishamtowers.org

We will post all news relating to this development to keep you up-to-date, and will put up notices of any campaign events.

This website has details about the plans for this massive overdevelopment.

It has the draft resolution from the public meeting of the 20 May.

The Your Say section allows you to share your thoughts, letters, submissions with the community.

We are also looking for official supporters for the campaign.  If your business, or community group, or even yourself as an individual, would like to become an official supporter of the NO LEWISHAM TOWERS campaign send an email to campaign@nolewishamtowers.org and include any associated logo.

Thank you for your support so far.  Together as a community we can stop this development if we all do our bit.

If you have any content or ideas about this website, please let us know.

Regards,

Max Phillips & Patrick Kelso
NO LEWISHAM TOWERS
www.nolewishamtowers.org

campaign@nolewishamtowers.org

Ms SYLVIA HALE [7.20 p.m.]: I speak on the continuing abuses inflicted by part 3A of the Environmental Planning and Assessment Act, and in particular about an application by Demian Developments for a site at Old Canterbury Road and Longport Street, Lewisham which has been called in by the Minister for Planning. This application is yet another disturbing example of how business seems to be done in New South Wales. Showing its familiarity with the process, Demian Developments has donated more than $20,000 to the New South Wales branch of the Australian Labor Party since 2002. But it has not stopped there. Accessing the Labor old mates network, Demian has engaged the former Minister for many things, Carl Scully, to argue its case to his former colleagues.

What are the justifications for the Minister calling in this development? What is so significant about the proposal that it requires the intervention of the State Government? Actually, there is nothing that sets this development apart from many other development applications other than it overrides the draft subregional strategy process that Marrickville Council is currently undertaking at the behest of the New South Wales Department of Planning, and it will be a huge overdevelopment. Demian proposes a massive five-tower development, including two towers of 14 storeys and one of 12 storeys, 524 residential units and retail floor space of 9,000 square metres, incorporating a major supermarket, a liquor store and 15 speciality stores. In bypassing the council, the developer is seeking the Minister’s connivance in overturning the Government’s own planning processes and the views and wellbeing of the local community.

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Would you like to live next door to fourteen storey tower blocks?  A huge overdevelopment has been proposed for Lewisham, at the corner of Old Canterbury Rd and Longport St.  See map.

The development includes 14, 12 and 6 storey towers and a large supermarket mall with basement car parking.  The developer has bypassed council and the local community and gone straight to the state government for approval under the controversial Part 3A law.

• Overdevelopment
• Traffic congestion and pollution
• Community disruption
• New precedents for building size for the Inner West
• Local shopping strips hurt - Petersham, Dulwich Hill, Summer Hill
• Interferes with the Cooks River to Iron Cove Greenway project

The Greens are campaigning to stop such a massive overdevelopment.  You can view our webpage on this issue: http://marrickvillegreens.wordpress.com/issue/lewisham-part-3a-development/

A public meeting has been called for 7pm, Wednesday 20 May at Summer Hill Community Centre, 131 Smith Street, Summer Hill.   See map to venue.  Come along to see the developers plans, express your opinion, and show your opposition to this overdevelopment. 

Please contact  Max Phillips if you want more information.

Greens Councillor Max Phillips
0419 444 916
phillips.max@gmail.com

I encourage you to attend this public meeting to find out more about what is planned.  Sylvia Hale, Greens MLC will be a key speaker.  PLEASE CIRCULATE TO YOUR NEIGHBOURS AND FRIENDS.

Councillors Marc Rerceretnam, Lyall Kennedy and Patrick Kelso

To move Notice of Motion No. NM24/2009

The Ashfield Town Centre has become a vibrant and bustling business centre, specialising in Shanghainese cuisine and groceries. Clientele numbers and the ensuing pedestrian traffic are high especially on weekends and public holidays.

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