Once-bullied
Sartor grows up and becomes a bully
IT’S
that dumb-and-dumber feeling you get when someone grabs your hand and makes you
slap yourself, hard, in the face. It’s
how the City of Sydney
council must be feeling right now – writes Elizabeth Farrelly on the CUB site
in the Sydney Morning Herald June 14, 2006.
The City is holding an urgent meeting to discuss
events surrounding the Carlton
and United Breweries (CUB) site at Chippendale. Join Clover Moore 7.30 pm
Thursday 15 June 2006, Medina Executive Sydney Central, 2 Lee Street Sydney
(adjacent to Central Station). Update from Clover’s
E-News No 300 of 10 June 2006.
Slum city fears as Sartor
grabs massive project – 9 June 2006
THE Minister for Planning, Frank Sartor, is set to
take control of the city’s biggest
residential project, igniting fears he will allow enormous apartment blocks
that will become Sydney’s future
slums reports Sherrill Nixon Urban
Affairs Editor in the Sydney Morning Herald June 9, 2006.
Minister Steers Government
Toward Another Cross City Tunnel Disaster – 9 June 2006
Lord Mayor Clover
Moore MP in a Media release of 9 JUne 2006 called on the Minister for Planning
to come clean on just how much money the State Government was planning to take
from the CUB site, and to give assurances about how this money would be spent.
Slum city fears as Sartor
grabs massive project – 9 June 2006 – SMH 9 June 2006
THE Minister for
Planning, Frank Sartor, is set to take control of the city’s biggest
residential project, igniting fears he will allow enormous apartment blocks
that will become Sydney’s future slums reports Sherrill Nixon Urban Affairs
Editor in the Sydney Morning Herald June 9, 2006.
Frank Sartors comments on
CUB to Adam Spencer on 702 ABC – 9 June 2006
The following is
a transcript of Minister Sartor’s comments about the CUB site following a
discussion about changes to Basix for high rise buildings.
Carlton & United
Breweries Site Heritage Under Threat from Minister:
The following
media release was issued by Andrew Woodhouse, president, Australian Heritage
Institute Inc. – an Australia-wide umbrella group of local heritage societies
on Thursday 8th JUNE 2006 in response to the SCPC voting to hand the CUB site
over to Minister Frank Sartor. Under the RWA Act the RWA, for which Minister Sartor
is also the Minister, gets the Affordable Housing levy from the CUB Site.
Sartor slammed over CUB –
The Australian June 03, 2006.
SYDNEY Lord Mayor
Clover Moore accused NSW Planning Minister Frank Sartor of making a
multi-million-dollar “cash grab” yesterday by contemplating higher
density at Foster’s Group’s $1 billion-plus CUB site development in Sydney’s
Chippendale, in exchange for higher affordable housing levies reports Paddy
Manning in The Australian June 03, 2006.
State Government Action
Threatens CUB Site – 2 June 2006
An eleventh hour
grab for cash by the State Government is jeopardising two years of careful
planning to set development controls and achieve community benefit from
redevelopment of the historic Carlton and United Breweries (CUB) site at
Chippendale reports Clover Moore in her E-News and a media statement.