The Weekly Times - 7th March, 2018

22 THE WEEKLY TIMES Wednesday 7 March, 2018
Residents urged to meet Gladesville shopping precinct exhibit deadline
GLADESVILLE residents have less than a fortnight to have their say on a proposed
new, local shopping precinct.
Last Tuesday night’s meeting
at the Hunters Hill Town Hall
heard Hunters Hill Mayor Mark
Bennett and senior council
staff stress that an exhibition
of planning controls for the site
closes on March 20 with Planning
Minister Anthony Roberts
due to determine what can and
cannot be built there by the
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“This is the most significant
development in Hunters Hill
in the last five years,” Mayor
Bennett said.
“What we are looking to do
is to improve the area and we
need your feedback.”
Hunters Hill Council’s Senior
Strategic Planner Philippa
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Hayes urged residents to make
written submissions at the exhibition,
which is on display at
the Town Hall from 9am to 5pm
weekdays.
“I cannot stress enough how
important it is to get your submission
in,” Ms Hayes said.
“We are coming to the end
of a long process and the next
couple of months will
be critical.”
This process has
seen the Council twice
reject applications
from applicant GSV
Developments over
traffic and other concerns
which prompted
the applicant to appeal
and seek Gateway
approval from the
state government with
additional height and
floor space sought for
a residential/commercial
development.
“The Gateway made
achieving height and
floor space conditional
on design excellence,”
Ms Hayes
said.
“A new draft regulation
applying to the
keysite is that open
space is to be a minimum
of 600 square
metres to be adjacent
to Cowell Street.
“This location must
ensure the landscaped
open space
is highly visable, enhances
the existing
pedestrian network
and has a level connection
to the Cowell
Street footpath.
“The second open
recreation space is to
have a minimum area
of 2,700 square meters
which is 25 per
cent of the key site
area.”
A further issue being
canvassed during
the exhibition is to
retain or relocate the
heritage cottage at 10
Cowell Street.
Save Hunters Hill
Municipality spokesman
Phil Jenkyn described
the Gateway
outcome as a con.
“Not only is it a con,
people need to be
aware it is a con and
that no one thinks it
is an excellent design
but the government
will think is excellent,”
he said.
“What we are being
sold is an extra
height, now 14 to 16
storeys on a claim of
design excellence and
they’re going to run
along to the government
pretending they
have support for this
so called design excellence.”
Mr Jenkyn was applauded
by many of
the 200 and more residents
at the meeting
who expressed significant
concern about
traffic.
“The traffic figures
we are being asked
to believe are fraudulent,”
one resident
said at the meeting.
“If this development
goes ahead than Pittwater
Road will become
another Victoria
Road .. the traffic congestion
around Cowell
Street, Flagstaff Street
and Massey Street will
be even worse than it
is now.”
No one at the meeting
spoke in favour of
having a new shopping
centre in Gladesville
although Hunters
Hill Liberal Clr Zac
Miles spoke of the
need to get the best
possible design to get
the best possible outcome.
was that Gladesville is
being developed “too
fast, too heavily” particularly
on the Ryde
Council run side of
a lot
ment going on,” Ms
way option as well as
concerns about the
cern about relocating
“What we are being
asked to accept
is moving the cottage
from where it is to create
open space, to a
park where there is already
open space and
where the will be less
open space once the
cottage goes there,”
one resident told the
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plaint
common
at the meeting
com-
Victoria Road.
“We are hearing
of people
unhappy
amount
in Ryde
about
of develop-
are
the
Hayes conceded.
There
the
oper
were concerns
applicant/devel-
did not attend
the meeting to put any
benefits of the Gate-
impact
works
Cowell
of construction
on
and
Flagstaff,
Massey
streets.
There was also con-
the 10 Cowell
Cottage to
Street
Valentia
Gladesville
Street
Reserve
Reserve,
or
to Heydon Park.
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