Residents certainly don't want it, my family included. I'd love to hear a legitimate reason why it is needed, preferably from someone in the area if there are any (I.e people within a 500m radius max)
Traffic is ridiculous and it's hard enough to get on a bus in the morning. Leagues club is needed but there is no need for the rest.
You can't even go towards the city from that side of Vic rd/darling street without a trip around the world so it's just more problems. More franchises which will destroy local business owners (no mcdonalds etc in the area for a reason). Will be wayyy out of character with a massive "skyscraper" leaving all in its shadow.
There are no benefits other than the leagues club so why be happy with anything more when it destroys an important part of the WT community?
Please people I don't want my suburb to be destroyed so please don't support this development and buy into this "it's a greens thing" and be in touch with your area. I've lived here my whole life!
Have some sense about you and don't buy into it just because some "tigers legend" told you it's the right thing to do. You don't know his agendas and neither does anyone else. Don't get lured just because there's a leagues club SOMEWHERE amongst the development that will bail the club out. We can get a new model with the essential leagues club and there's no need to settle for some dodgy model which benefits no one!
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Ok, I'm a local resident (Oxford St Rozelle) and have been my whole life. My family have lived in the area (Balmain/Rozelle) for over 100 years.
I'll first pick apart your point about the club on its own. That model has tried and failed. Leagues clubs all over Sydney on their own are losing money, particularly those close to the city with The Star now redone. Factors outside their control have destroyed the registered clubs industry, which means they need to turn to developments such as this for financial safety. So basically, the club can't come back on it's own.
Secondly, reasons why this is needed. Well, for starters, Sydney has been experiencing urban sprawl for its whole history, and it's getting to the point where the infrastructure simply isn't enough to cope. There is established infrastructure along Victoria Road, so the position of this development is perfect for it's position in that respect. In regard to buses, I catch the bus to work in the city every morning, and have never had to wait longer than 10 minutes to get on one.
The retail on that side of Victoria Road is dead, plain and simple - there is no argument against that. This development will reinvigorate the area on that side of Victoria Road, and add 304 houses worth of people to shop in the local shops. That is up to around 600-700 new potential customers. In relation to the retail on the site, it won't be enough to service all the needs of those living there, so they will use the local shops. As described by Ian Wright on the 7:30 Report piece last Friday, it is a supermarket and 10-15 speciality shops. Hardly a mega-mall as some residents are saying in the hope of scaremongering.
In regards to their being no benefits - the area is in much need of parking (the development has around 800 spots), the area is in desperate need of childcare (how about that, it has childcare as well), the development provides a gym, medical centre and community centre. Are they not benefits to the community?
And the in-keeping with the rest of the area rubbish is exactly that - rubbish. Someone please explain to me how a high-rise, high-density development on the busiest road in the country is 'out of character'. The current nature of the suburb has put pressure on the rest of the city's infrastructure and transport network. Sydney needs to build up in it's inner-suburbs, not out to the extremities.
I'd like to stay away from personal attacks, but as a generalisation saying that 'I don't want my suburb to be destroyed' just screams NIMBY.
