White Bay
Community Consultation Meetings
5 March 2012
The third workshop for the White Bay Cruise Terminal was held on 5 March 2012. The workshop presented the finalised issues and submissions discussed in the previous meetings.
For further information, including the meeting presentation, please go to:
http://www.leichhardt.nsw.gov.au/White-Bay-Community-Consultation-Workshop-3.html
20 February 2012
The second workshop for the White Bay Cruise Terminal was held on 20 February 2012. The workshop covered; proposed changes to the road network; parking issues; access points; landscaping; and the use of the function centre and ancillary facilities.
For further information, including a detailed summary of the issues, please go to:
http://www.leichhardt.nsw.gov.au/Community-Consultation-Workshop-2.html
7 February 2012
Over 60 local residents and business people joined Council at the first of three White Bay Cruise Ship Terminal inclusive community consultations held on 7 February.
Council has decided to hold the open consultation sessions as Sydney Ports has refused to do so.
The meeting captured many serious issues that Sydney Ports must address, including the significant loss of parking; the risk of long term parking in residential streets and traffic gridlock at key intersections; and the lack of a public transport plan with the development.
For further information, including a summary of the issues raised during the workshop phase of the meeting, please go to: http://www.leichhardt.nsw.gov.au/White-Bay-Community-Consultation-Workshop-1.html
31 October 2011
Leichhardt Council has requested urgent meetings with the Premier, the leader of the Opposition and the appropriate Ministers in order to reiterate community concerns and urge a moratorium on development at White Bay until a Bays Precinct Master Plan has been completed.
Sydney Ports Corporation has told Council and the community that they need to be off the Barangaroo site by the end of 2012 and that therefore works at White Bay Wharf 5 need to start imminently.
The Corporation is set to award contracts for the demolition and building of the terminal and function centre at White Bay Wharf No 5 without council and community consultation and without referral to the Bays Precinct Master planning process.
Public Meeting
Following indications that they would ignore recommendations of the Barangaroo Review and did not intent to hold any community consultation, Leichhardt Council hosted a Public Meeting at Balmain Town Hall on 17 October to inform residents of the plans.
Residents voiced concerns that the proposal from Sydney Ports was completely unworkable and that the community stands in deep opposition to the plans.
Issues raised
Lack of foreshore access:
- There is no foreshore access proposed for cyclists or pedestrians
- The access to the wharves that is proposed is a lookout and steps from Stephen St which was identified by residents as completely unworkable because of the narrowness of the street.
- There is no disabled access at all to the wharves.
Lack of landscaping
- None is proposed by Sydney Ports
Close resident interface
- The close interface for residents in nearby streets and concerns about noise and illumination pollution
Parking
- Significant parking will be LOST.html in Roberts St
Heavy traffic on residential streets
- Residential streets will be used for all the heavy vehicles, including articulated lorries servicing the cruise ships and the function centre
Passengers cut off from local businesses
- The whole Wharf area and passenger access will be fenced off James Craig Drive and the wharves.
Masterplan
There was a strong message that the community wants to see a Masterplan for the Bays Precinct and until that is adopted, a moratorium on the ad-hoc development being approved using Part 3A or the Planning Assessment Commission.
Master Plan and Temporary Cruise Terminal
The State Government must commit to no more development at White Bay until the Master Plan process is completed
The terminal at Barangaroo has for quite some time been a temporary terminal, as was the cruise ship terminal used recently on Glebe Island.
Cruise ships could continue to use these temporary terminals until the Masterplanning process is complete.
The building of the Terminal and Function Centre at Wharf No 5 at White Bay can and should be deferred until the Masterplan is developed and adopted.
Timeline
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Council Resolutions Regarding White Bay
For a full list of resolutions regarding White Bay, please go to: http://www.leichhardt.nsw.gov.au/IgnitionSuite/uploads/docs/White%20Bay%5b1%5d.pdf