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31st January 2016
To: The Director of Urban Renewal
NSW Dept of Planning & Environment
Re: Hurlstone Park 25% Action Group
Submission on the Sydney to Bankstown Urban Renewal Corridor Strategy
We OPPOSE the current Strategy
Dear Sir/Madam,
My name is Craig Field and I proudly live at 112 Melford St, Hurlstone Park.
I am a founding member of the Hurlstone Park 25% Action Group (HP25%AG). Members of the HP25%AG work closely with other action groups including the Hurlstone Park Association, CROPS & Save Dully.
The HP25%AG was established in late 2015 in response to the fact that under the Sydenham to Bankstown Urban Renewal Corridor Strategy, approximately 25% of Hurlstone Park has been carved off and allocated to the proposed Canterbury Precinct (see figures below).
This is not acceptable as the suburb of Hurlstone Park is clearly not part of the suburb of Canterbury (see figures below)1. Nor do most of the residents that we have talked to about the Strategy identify themselves as part of the Canterbury suburb. We are proud multi-‐cultural residents of Hurlstone Park with many having lived in our small green suburb for many decades and with several generations living in the same or adjacent streets.
There is no logic to pulling 25% of Hurlstone Park into the Canterbury Precinct, rezoning the existing predominantly single storey federation houses (most outside the 400m station radius) and subjecting the area to bulldozers and 8 storey redevelopment. The only logic would appear to be the Dept trying to water down the impact that they are proposing for Canterbury. Without excising 25% of Hurlstone Park over 90% of the Canterbury Precinct would be rezoned, effectively bulldozing the entire area. This is clearly NOT acceptable.
Our position is not to oppose development. We are supportive of development that pays due consideration and respect to the history and building stock of Hurlstone Park and Canterbury and the existing communities and regenerates the area, where needed. However, we are completely OPPOSED to the blatant disrespect the Dept has shown to the people of Hurlstone Park and Canterbury and the quality architecture that the residents have chosen to care for. We are OPPOSED to the blanket rezoning, which will lead to bulldozing of 100s of quality homes and destruction of a tight knit community.
Below is a typical example of the development occurring around the Canterbury station now. According to a recent investigation of the Canterbury Council planning database, nearly 2,500 dwellings have been approved in the Canterbury and Hurlstone Park suburbs in the last 5 years. This massive level of development has not been considered when basing your housing projections on ABS 2011 census data. This significant level of development must be incorporated in the Strategy forecasts.
1 http://profile.id.com.au/canterbury/about?WebID=180
The community of Canterbury, and those to the east of Canterbury Road close to the station in or adjacent to Hurlstone Park, went through a long and detailed consultation process with Canterbury Council as part of the Canterbury Town Centre Master Plan. The development around the Canterbury station is a result of that consultation process. The figure below shows the boundary of the rezoning which under the original plan is meant to include approximately 1,000 new dwellings, which have been predominantly built on brownfield sites thus minimising the impact of families in residential dwellings.
We have many issues with the current Strategy such as:
• an appalling consultation process that didn’t inform the community adequately, virtually ignores the significant population that have English as a second language and those that are older and may not be technology savvy.
• complete lack of understanding and respect of the architectural and ecological quality of the suburb – see Appendix A for extract from the heritage survey
• complete lack of recognition of heritage listed items which have been rezoned under the Strategy (i.e. the Sugar Mill as 8 storeys)
• poor quality strategy and supporting documents that contain many errors • inconsistent demographic figures and boundaries of analysis (i.e. Hurlstone Park and Canterbury) • disregard for the significant level of development already occurring in Hurlstone Park and
Canterbury which has not been included in the existing projections • farcical mention of the increased level of employment that can be enjoyed considering the level
of destruction to the existing building stock to attain such minimal rise in employment yet heralding this as one of the key aims of the Strategy
• complete absence of detail as to how and when infrastructure for the virtual doubling of the population along the corridor will occur considering infrastructure such as roads and day care centres are already well beyond capacity with the current population
• lack of a cohesive plan for such development which merely rezones and lets developers develop ad hoc high rise flats with no consideration of quality or sustainability and complete disregard for adjacent properties
Our position is very simple, apart from rectifying the issues above which will be covered in many of the 100s of submissions you have already received, we ask the following:
1. Return the 25% of Hurlstone Park that is currently part of the Canterbury Precinct plan back to the Hurlstone Park Precinct plan and unify the suburb.
2. Move the boundary of the medium-‐high rise housing from Melford St back to Minter St following the boundary set out in the Canterbury Council Town Centre Master Plan which involved significant consultation with the community affected in this area to the east of Canterbury Road (see previous figure)
3. Rezone the housing from Melford St to the Minter St and associated Town Centre Boundary back to single dwelling houses thus maintaining the majority of the federation style housing stock.
4. Re-‐draft the entire Strategy taking the above issues and points into consideration and conduct a re-‐exhibition of the draft strategy in tandem with a well designed inclusive consultation process that both fully informs and engages the community affected in multiple languages.
The HP25%AG strongly suggest you read the Hurlstone Park Heritage Study and Pictorial Survey conducted by one of our own residents as it provides more supporting data for preservation of the
entire suburb of Hurlstone Park http://heritagehurlstonepark.org/index2.php Refer to Appendix A for an extract of the details of the quality of some of the housing stock in the 25% excised area.
Thank you for considering our submission. We look forward to see a re-‐draft of the Strategy that takes into consideration the 100s of voices that strongly oppose this Strategy.
Yours sincerely
Craig Patrick Field
Hurlstone Park 25% Action Group.
31st January 2016
Appendix A
Tables of streets impacted under the current plans with the 25% of Hurlstone Park under the Canterbury Precinct plan, these table lists house by house those of standing heritage, non-‐heritage and intermediate dwellings.
Acton St-‐ 60%
(35% not; 15% have potential)
43, 68 missing
Heritage 1 2 4 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18
Heritage 22 23 24 27 28 29 30 31 37 40 41 46 47 48 49
Heritage 50 51 53 54 55 56 58 60 61 62 66 67 75 76 77
Heritage 78 79 80 82
No 5 6 25 26 32 33 34 42 46 52 59 61A 63 64 65
No 70 71 72
Intermediate 3 19 20 21 35 36 38 39 44 45 57 69 73 74
Canberra St -‐ 73%
Runs along the railway line
Most houses are Bungalows
Heritage 1 2 3 4 5 7 9 11 15 17 19
No 6 13 21 23
Intermediate
Kilbride St -‐ 52%
1-‐20 missing
Heritage 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 29 31 32 34 36 38 40 47
Heritage 50 51A 52 53 55 56 57 58 63
No 30 33 35 37 41 42 45 45B 48 49 51 54 60 61
Intermediate 28 37 39 43 44 46 59 62
Floss St-‐ 58.2%
Runs from Garnett St, across the railway and up to Canterbury Rd
Has many federation and older style homes
Towards the station are several unit blocks and a unit complex
1-‐3 and 2-‐6 do not exist
55-‐65-‐ park
36,38,40,42,42,44 ,72, 78, 84 missing
73,97 missing ; 122-‐128 -‐missing
Euston Court -‐ units*
Euston House**
Heritage 5 7 10-‐14
13 16 18 19 20 28-‐
34
39 41 43 45 46 47
Heritage 48 49 52 53 64-‐
66
67**
68 69*
70 75 79 80 81 82 83
Heritage 85 87 91 92 93 94 95 96 98 102
104 110
112
118
120
Heritage 140
142
144
148
150
No 8 11 24 37 50 51 54-‐
56
58-‐
60
62 71 74-‐76 unit complex
86 88 90 103
No 114
116
130
138
152
Intermediate
9 17 22 26 77 89 99 100
106
108
116 132
134
136
146
Melford St -‐ 66.3%
The top of Melford has a beautiful Church at No 8*
2-‐6* is the 7-‐11 site
There are only a couple of blocks of units (16) and a couple of groups of town houses(18-‐20, 32-‐34, 36-‐38),
otherwise the predominant dwelling is heritage brick and tile.
Heritage 1 3 5 8* 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 17 19 26 27
Heritage 28 30 42 43 45 46 47 50 51 53 54 55 58 59 60
Heritage 61 62 63 64 68 70 72 74 76 82 86 88 90 90A 92
Heritage 94 96 98 100 102 104 106 108 110 112 114 116 120 122
No 2-‐6*
7 16 18-‐20
22 23 24 29 32-‐34
36-‐38
40 48 66 78 86A
Intermediate 21 25 29 44 49 52 56 57 80 84 118 124