REDWatch Joins in Open Letter to NSW Government

Dear Premier
and Ministers

We, the
undersigned community groups, representing the concerned residents of City of
Sydney council area, request the draft new City Plan (Draft Sydney Local
Environment Plan 2011 and Draft Sydney Development Control Plan 2010) be put on
hold, pending further consultation between the community, council and the new
State Government. We have come to this position because of the following;

The draft
provisions do not afford adequate protection of resident amenity or
heritage items.

The draft
provisions encourage over development of and inappropriate uses in residential
and public recreation zones.

The state
directives under which the new City Plan was formulated are in conflict with
the new state administration’s stated aims and objectives.

There has
been inadequate consultation with communities

We understand
the new state government was elected with an overwhelmingly large mandate,
partially on the platform of less intense development in inner and older
suburbs and returning development issues to the local councils. The draft City
Plan is the creation of the previous State Government, through directives to
Council, on the numbers of dwellings to be imposed and the deletion of planning
rules that recognise regional differences.

Signed by

Ben Aveling,
Co-convenor, Alexandria Residents Action Group

Ph 0407 228
240

ben.aveling@optusnet.com.au

Peter
Tzannes, Co-Chairman, Centennial Park Residents Association

Ph 9663 3370

ptzannes@ozemail.com.au

Jo Holder –
Co-Convenor, Darlinghurst Residents Action Group

Ph 0406 537
933

joholder@aic.net.au

Rosemary
Potts – Co-Convenor, Friends
of Bourke Street
Ph 0431 677 542
friendsofbourkestreet@hotmail.com

Brett Mason,
President, Friends of Erskineville