This month’s meeting will be all about the widening of McEvoy St and Euston Road, and how this is all going to impact us.
Usual time and place:
7pm, Wednesday 8th February,
Alexandria Town Hall, Garden
For background information, see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZC363Gw7qig
A message from WestCONnex Action Group:
Today WestConnex contractors began destroying large numbers of trees in Sydney Park on the corner of Euston and Campbell Roads.
This is an urgent appeal to WestConnex Action Group members and supporters to join a mass demonstration at the Sydney Park Camp tomorrow morning from 6am to take a stand against the clear felling of large swathes of trees and the demolition of scores of homes in St Peters at Sydney Park and surrounds.
Your support so far during this campaign has been great and is appreciated. The Sydney Park protest camp has been in operation for 116 days now and this has been a huge community effort. We now need you tomorrow and throughout this week to stand up again against WestConnex.
Despite all the evidence showing that the plans by WestConnex for the St Peters Interchange and the New M5 will be a disaster, just like the M4 East has been, Duncan Gay and the Baird government have not listened.
Their road building frenzy knows no limits – more than 800 significant trees in and around the Inner West’s largest green space, Sydney Park, will be felled in the next few weeks as works begin to widen Euston and Campbell Roads to 7 and 8 lane highways.
Premier Baird and Roads Minister Duncan Gay definitely don’t have a social license for this project. We know tens of thousands of people all around Sydney do not support this wasteful road building which will feed the corporate tollroad companies for decades to come.
Join us tomorrow morning at 6am or as early as you can at the Sydney Park Camp on the corner of Euston and Campbell Roads to stand against Baird’s vandalism.
We know there’s a better way of doing transport in this city and we are prepared to fight WestConnex for as long as it takes to stop this dirty tollroad destroying our communities.
We need everyone to stand up and say NO tomorrow morning
TAKE ACTION
THURSDAY Jan 12 from 6AM (if you can’t make it at 6, please come down as early as you can)
Corner of Euston and Campbell Roads St Peters (entry via Campbell Road – walk or drive down Campbell Road from the Princes Highway)
WestCONnex Action Group
http://www.westconnexactiongroup.org.au/
On the agenda for tomorrow’s ARAG meeting (14/12/2016):
Our next meeting is this Wednesday, at the usual time and place of:
7pm at Alexandria Town Hall.
On the agenda:
The Department of Education has contacted ARAG. They want your input into their plans for the redevelopment of what is currently the Alexandria Park Community School Senior Campus, on Mitchell Road. Continue reading
If WestConnex were not enough, there is a proposal to build a six storey, 400+ apartment building in the middle of Sydney Park.
The proposed new development will replace what is currently a low rise warehouse/office building that is tucked behind a row of trees next to the lakes.
The full details are yet to be released, but we do know that the new buildings will be considerably taller than the surrounding trees and will be hard up against the boundaries with Sydney Park.
There is even a suggestion that the new complex will be called Sydney Park.
Formal objections have closed, but we are told that if an objection is received by the end of this week, it will still be considered.
We have prepared a suggested template that you might like to use as the starting point for your own objection – we strongly encourage you explain in your own words why this development matters to – it just carries more weight if you use your own words and talk about the things that matter to you.
Objections should be sent to RHand@cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au ASAP, but definitely by 16/9.
We have a very special guest for this meeting. Justin Hemmes, the proud new owner of the Alexandria Hotel, will be talking to us about the future. rejuvenation of the Alex and seeking our input.
Come and hear how the Alex was saved, and discuss what happens next.
There will also be a quick update on WestConnex and the ATP.
Meeting starts 7pm, Wednesday 14 September, at Alexandria Town Hall, 73 Garden St.
Lord Mayor Clover Moore will be holding a public meeting to discuss WestConnex and the Central to Eveleigh Precinct, on Wednesday 27 July from 6.30pm at Alexandria Town Hall, Garden Street, Alexandria.
ARAG encourages all local residents to attend. This is the future of our suburb being discussed.
Lord Mayor’s Invitation to WestConnex and Central to Eveleigh public meeting
Jenny Leong’s office is soliciting comments from residents who will be impacted by the Baird government’s plan to reduce train services to St Peters and Erskineville Stations: http://www.jennyleong.org/train_services.
The agenda for Wednesday’s ARAG meeting (13/7) is:
1. Central to Eveleigh
Development along the rail corridor between
Central and Eveleigh stations.
Guest speaker: Matthew White, Program Director, UrbanGrowth NSW.
2. Update on Alexandria Hotel
Land and Environment Court proceedings have resumed.
There will be a ‘Mediation’ meeting between the developer, and Council,
and Residents: Aug 4, 9:30am, on-site
3. AGM.
Anyone who wishes to become more involved in the Residents Group is
encouraged to nominate to join the Executive.
Alexandria Residents' Action Group 