Author Archives: Ben Aveling

How WestConnex Noise and Vibration will impact on Alexandria

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noise_table_111_treatmentContributed by one of our co-ord group members.

On my reading of the EIS chapters, there are impacts on Alexandria both on the noise and vibration front, but the main impact on us is noise. The EIS generally dismisses vibration as an issue that won’t cause us problems. ( EG See, Vol 2D, App J Page 149 5.5.2 ).

There are a couple of points worth making Continue reading →

Save Sydney Park from WestConnex

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WestConnex, if it goes ahead, will be devastating for Sydney Park.

To see how to object, click here.

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It will take a large chunk out of the south eastern side, for a ‘construction compound’ that will reach almost to the large lake.

It will take off the southern corner, to create a massive intersection between Euston Rd, Campbell Rd and the tunnel ramps. (See the black line on Continue reading →

WestConnex EIS Public Forum – Wed 13 Jan

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The New M5 EIS (Environmental Impact Statement) has been released. The impact on Alexandria will be devastating.

Alexandria Residents’ Action Group will be running a workshop on the EIS, at:

7pm on Wednesday 13 January
Alexandria Town Hall (73 Garden St).

Please come along and:

  • Hear more about what the impact will be on Alexandria
  • Get advice on how to submit an objection
  • Learn what more you can do to save your suburb

We only have until 29 January to submit objections.
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How WestConnex will impact traffic in Alexandria

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The M5 East EIS (Environmental Impact Statement) has been released. Comments on the EIS are being accepted until 29 January.

The impact on Alexandria is every bit as bad as we had feared. If anything, it’s worse than expected.

From about 2019, the M5 will terminate at Sydney Park. When complete, it will dump over 100,000 cars into our suburbs, much of which will end up on local streets. This is not by accident – it is intentional.

60,000 vehicles are expected to use Euston Road. This is more traffic than uses Victoria Road. It is almost ten times the traffic that Euston Road currently handles.

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An extra lane in each direction will be added to Euston Road. The north-bound lane will go as far as Maddox Street, where it becomes a new left-hand turn lane, channelling traffic off Euston Road and into Maddox Street. Continue reading →

Proposal to heritage list the Alexandria Hotel

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The City of Sydney has called for submissions on heritage listing the Alexandria Hotel. Submissions are open until 27 January.

In the meantime, the interim heritage order has been extended until 27 July.

There is still an appeal against the interim heritage order in progress, which is listed for hearing on 1 and 2 March. There is also an appeal against the deemed refusal of the Development Application, listed for 10 March.

If the appeal against the interim heritage order fails, as seems likely, the appeal against the DA will not go ahead, and a permanent heritage listing will, most probably, be in place well before the end of July.

Submissions on the heritage listing should quote reference: “X001925 – Planning proposal submission – Alexandria Hotel listing – 35 Henderson Road, Eveleigh” and can be either emailed to
cloffi@cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au or posted to:

Chief Executive Officer
Attention: Claudine Loffi, Senior Specialist Planner (Heritage)
City of Sydney, GPO Box 1591, Sydney NSW 2001