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Freshwater Village Development Proposal Great speech Mike - highlights everything that is wrong with the proposal. Standing up for Freshwater Well Done Mike Baird for standing up for Freshwater Village. Its fantastic to see our State MP taking the grassroots voices straight into Parliament. Keep up the great work! Freshwater Development Proposal It's a bloody outrage that they can come in and errect a monster of a building which is clearly going to stick out like a sore thumb. The question here is who stands to gain the most from it? Not the residents that's for sure. Leave the village alone! I agree I was just discussing this with the shop owners today at my visit to Freshwater Village and one in particular told me how she would be shut down and out of work. I suspect many more would be just like her. As a Freshwater resident I do not see why we need this development. We have access to major supermarkets in Brookvale, Manly and Dee Why. We like our local shops and feel they should be supported not destroyed. Our family moved here because we loved the village atmosphere and I suspect many others did also. There is no need to ruin what is a beautiful location. Freshwater Village Proposal............. Can`t these developers ever stop!!!! Wonderful speech Mike, keep hammering at them till they drop. Leave Freshwater alone to the community. Regards Debra Arena. Selfish and narrow minded attitude lets Having exposure to not only Sydney, but other major cities around the world, I find the attitude of a minority group such as the friends of freshwater so at odds with the interests of Sydneysiders as a whole. I would prefer that Sydney retain its old world charm, but house prices continue to increase through lack of housing, housing that this proposal and many others would seek to provide. There is clearly a shortage of housing in Sydney and this only shuts young people out of owning a home. Old residents in their comfortable homes can rant an rave about house prices going up, but having seen the plans and proposal, find their objection to this project to be another beat up on property developers. It seems no one wants medium density housing, but just like taxes, its something we must face in the future to accomodate new arrivals and young peoples housing needs. Grow up Freshie and do your bit! Freshwater Development Proposal Great work Mike Baird. This development sounds criminal. Telstra building needs to go Dear Mike, Thanks for giving up your time to get involved in the fight to save Freshwater Village and for your speech. I grew up a block away from the "village" - when it was just "Harbord shops". I went to Harbord School and (then) Manly Girls' High, all within Freshwater's boundaries. I feel ill about the threat to its mainstreet and the apparent lack of timely input the NSW planning process allows vulnerable communities. After Peter Harley's excellent and informative "tour" today, I wonder if you could take up the matter of the ugly five-storey Telstra building, which is preposterously being used as a precedent for additional height in the DA. If redundant as a communications facility, can we ask for this eyesore to be demolished, the phone towers relocated and to reclaim the site (from the Crown?) as public open green space? It would make an ideal community garden, for example, to serve the coming increased density and to redress some of the loss of precious village interaction to come. I hope you can find the time in your busy schedule to make some enquiries to that effect, thank you. Best regards, Cr Virginia Laugesen Freshwater Vilage proposal Mike Baird Your address in Parliament covered the issues succinctly. I'd be happy to add my name to a petition. It's great that you are putting your weight behind the opposition to the proposed development. Best wishes Sue-Ann Mathews Freshwater Village Development I agree that this proposal is not acceptable. It is an over development of the site and will, I'm sure , further exacerbate traffic problems with it's major increase in accomodation. I have been told that this will be a security gated residential complex. If this is true it is entirely out of sync with the village tradition. Aesthetically the design is out of character with the notion of a village; as is the monstrosity facing it from across the road. We don't want another mistake. And I feel for the existing business owners who have worked hard to build their businesses, only to have them destoyed by a group of people who are only interested in making as much money as they can and to hell with everyone else. Roger Shackleton Freshwater Village Development Proposal I understand more than most, that there is a great shortage of affordable housing and that this needs to be addressed. My family struggled for years to eventually be able to afford a small unit in Freshwater. However I feel strongly that it was worth the struggle and sacrifice. This development plan will destroy the village atmosphere and is a complete waste of an opportunity to create something that is beneficial both to the developers and to the community. Once it is built there will be no going back, and it will no doubt set a precedent for any other developers who will be watching this with great interest. Video link about the proposed developmen Here is a link to a video in which Peter Harley from The Friends of Freshwater Village takes concerned residents on a tour of the proposed controversial development site http://www.youtube.com/upsidedowntv |
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