TIGERS Rozelle Development

Gary Leo was actually well groomed for the time that photo was taken and the mutton chops were smallish.
 
@innsaneink said:
Thought some may enjoy this old photo, thought this thread best
Victoria Rd & Darling st look down towards the old White Bay power station

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Could fire a shotty down the main drag and be hard up hitting something.
 
Now I know where those ruddy tram tracks that cross Parramatta Road and Chrystal Street, Petersham come from. Used to hate them when riding the motor bike in the rain going around that corner - so easy to come off.

Compare the clothing to now. In Byron the girls proudly show both sets of cheeks without blushing, and without rouge to hide anything.
 
@innsaneink said:
And they reckon players today ave some strange hairdos

Gary Leo?

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Loved Gary Leo! He and McTaggart made a really competitive front row. Shame the rest of the team was average! Leo certainly punched above his weight.
 
It's an era thats fascinating for me…. The era just before I started following the game.
Have to rely on others memories.... Rare footage... Audio
There's a magic in history that's hard to describe
 
Hi guy's

Hope everyone's well and having a great week and ready for a rare tigers win over the broncs.
Sorry if my question has already been answered in another thread but I was just curious now that leichardt,Ashfield and Ryde I think have merged councils will it make any diference to the planned Rozelle development, I'm just a bit confused about who is running the show at leichardt now is it still the former mayor or did Rozelle fall under the jurisdiction of another former council. Thanks in advance and have a great day everyone.
 
No idea but probably an administrator appointed by the state government acting in consultation with the boned councilors. That's how it's working where I am anyway
 
Some liberal puppet had been appointed.

This might actually be a good thing for the re-development seeing the Libs are only interested in money, serving themselves and ignoring the needs of the community. They might just approve it in a heartbeat!

Mods i'd merge this with the other rozelle development thread though.
 
Apparently the debut meeting of the new council was a debacle. Protesters basically stopped the meeting from proceeding. Good write up on the smh.
 
@innsaneink said:
It's an era thats fascinating for me…. The era just before I started following the game.
Have to rely on others memories.... Rare footage... Audio
There's a magic in history that's hard to describe

reminiscing on the history and tradition of league with family and friends is something special.
some stuff here Ink that may be of intertest.

http://www.eraofthebiff.com/memorable-matches-from-the-biff-era/m26-balmains-great-fairytale-the-69-grand-final

http://www.dktradingcardshoponline.com/index.php?cPath=50_178&&page=4
 
The size of Sydney's $16.8 billion WestConnex tollroad project continues to expand after the organisation charged with delivering the project confirmed the Baird government is looking at building an extra tunnel in the inner west.
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Under the latest options, a one-kilometre-long tunnel would run between Iron Cove Bridge and an interchange at Rozelle, where it would connect to the 33-kilometre WestConnex motorway….....
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http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/westconnex-extra-tunnel-road-widening-makes-168b-motorway-even-bigger-20160718-gq8mae.html

I think this is already been approved, heard a bit on radio today about it

Seems like the BLC redevelopment was never going to happen possibly
 
I don't see how the westconex affects this.
The Metro did because the state wanted to use the site both as a station and as a tunnel boring point.
 
@innsaneink said:
Victoria Rd will be widened.
Everything on the BLC side of the road from the bridge up to Darling St will go

Are you sure it's all of that left hand side ink? Didn't think they would reach all the way up to the Tigers club.

I'm down the other side of the hill, so this is awesome for me… Park on the doorstep.
 
Hope at the end of the tunnel for former Balmain Leagues Club building

SMH Jacob Saulwick July 22 2016 - 10:06PM

The potential developer of the former Balmain Leagues Club site has welcomed plans for a road tunnel under that section of Victoria Road, and says the project may justify more apartments in the area.

The Baird Government's announcement this week that it would extend the WestConnex motorway another kilometre under Rozelle adds another twist to the long-running saga of the Leagues Club, which has financially savaged a football club and left a prime inner-city location dormant.

Ian Wright, whose Rozelle Village company is the owner and would-be developer of the site, is expecting an imminent court decision to determine whether his latest proposal to build two 12- and eight-storey residential towers will go ahead.

If Mr Wright is successful, the Balmain Leagues Club could return to a venue which it left in 2010, forced out by the former Labor government's ill-fated plans to build a metro station in the area.

Mr Wright, however, may attempt to modify plans for the area yet again. In 2014, his proposal for 24- and 20-storey towers on the site was rejected by the state government, on the grounds it would have a negative impact on road traffic in the area.

"This WestConnex project around Victoria Road just provides a stronger argument for higher density, particularly on the Balmain Leagues Club site," Mr Wright said on Friday.

"I think it's a great thing.

"The traffic constraints were always the number one argument the former council had against it".

In October, Mr Wright appealed against the former Leichhardt Council's decision to refuse his more recent development application for the site. That application proposed 135 apartments, a supermarket, public plaza and club premises, which was smaller than his previous bid for 247 apartments.

A Land and Environment Court decision on that appeal is due as soon as next week. Mr Wright said that should he be successful, he may then attempt to increase the size of the development proposal.

"That would certainly remain an option available to us," he said.

The chairman of the Tigers, Leslie Glen, said he was concerned the WestConnex proposal could delay the club's return to Balmain, which would be enabled should Mr Wright's proposal proceed.

"We took our club out in 2010, we've been waiting all this time very patiently for the opportunity to return," said Dr Glen.

"As a result of this long-standing impasse we've taken a very savage financial beating," he said, crediting Mr Wright and the Western Suburbs Magpies for help in ensuring the survival of the organisation as part of the Wests Tigers NRL club.

According to Roads Minister Duncan Gay, building a tunnel under Rozelle from WestConnex to the Iron Cove Bridge would remove up to 50 per cent of traffic from Victoria Road around Darling Street.

Work on that tunnel is due to start in 2019, with the overall WestConnex project finished by 2023\. The tunnel will require the acquisition of 27 properties on Victoria Road. But a spokeswoman for the agency responsible for WestConnex, the Sydney Motorway Corporation, said the former Leagues Club site "will not be directly impacted" by construction.
 
The old Balmain Leagues Club is a notorious eyesore on one of the city's busiest roads - and it could stay that way for years as wrangling continues over the fate of the derelict site.
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Its owner and would-be developer, Rozelle Village, wanted to build 12- and eight-storey residential towers on the Victoria Road site, plus shops and space for a new leagues club.
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But the development application was refused on Wednesday by the Land and Environment Court, which ruled it did not meet the objectives of the local environment plan for the precinct…..........................
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http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/land-and-environment-court-rejects-latest-plans-to-redevelop-the-former-balmain-leagues-club-site-20160928-grq30v.html
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A Sydney court has rejected a controversial proposal to build two residential towers on the old Balmain Tigers club site at Rozelle in Sydney's inner-west.
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Developers Rozelle Village wanted to turn the old site and its surrounds into two apartment towers and a shopping centre, but their development application has been rejected at the Land and Environment Court.......................................................
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-09-28/court-rejects-proposed-high-rises-old-balmain-tigers-club-site/7883924
 
This just continues as a bureaucratic nightmare.

With the Westconnex tunnel supposed to cut out 60-70% of the traffic around the Victoria Rd + Darling St intersection, that would surely pave the way for the argument that impacts on parking will be negligible. And would boost the number of shoppers to the community.

Perhaps the tunnel hasn't been 100% ratified yet so they can't consider it with these applications.
 
I think youre right BB, reading a link in the Heralds article it appears WestConnex at Rozelle is still only an option
 
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