Slides from tonight’s meeting are here: ARAG Meeting – 20160413
To email your local MP about WestConnex, visit http://www.westconnexactiongroup.org.au/federalmp
To object to the Alexandria Hotel DA, visit https://www.planningalerts.org.au/applications/643228 or https://online.cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au/DA/IndividualApplication?tpklapappl=124639. See also savethealexpub.tumblr.com.
Sample of an Objection to 9 Mitchell Rd here: Objection D 2016 329 – 9 Mitchell Road web version
Come to this month’s ARAG meeting at Wednesday 13th, 7pm, Alexandria Town Hall, for updates on:
Here are the slides from the last ARAG meeting.
If you want to know more about how the redevelopment of the ATP will affect you, have a read.
You can use points from these slides as the basis for an objection.
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
On the Agenda for tonight’s meeting we have:
Meeting starts 7pm, Alexandria Town Hall.
Followed by drinks, nibbles and chat.
We’ll be having Mirvac’s Ross Hornsey along to talk about plans for the ATP, and what it’s going to take to make it work.
We’re hoping Jenny Leong will be present for our update on what WestConnex means for Alexandria (short version: 60,000 cars on Euston Road – that’s more traffic than Victoria Road can carry).
And we’ll be getting an update on the Metro and why Alexandria should care, and a quick update on the sad fate of our beloved Alexandria Hotel.
Hope to see you there.
We are still waiting to hear this formally confirmed, but we have been told that the developer will withdraw their current application to demolish the Alexandria Hotel.
They had been hoping to prevent the building receiving a heritage listing. It appears they have finally recognised that the merits of the case for heritage are too strong to be ignored, and that the physical building is now safe from the threat of demolition.
This does not mean that the hotel is safe. While the developers may abandon their attempts to redevelop the site, they may also come back with a new proposal that seeks to ‘adapt’ the existing building, possibly by keeping the front of the hotel while building on part or all of the current beer garden, and possibly even building ‘into’ the upper level of the hotel.
This is a win for the community. But until we know what happens next, it isn’t over yet.
The agenda for the July ARAG meeting is:
The meeting will start at 7pm, Wednesday the 8th, at Alexandria Town Hall, 73 Garden St, Alexandria.
Alexandria Residents' Action Group 