- Target:
- Mayor and Councillors at Waverley Council
- Region:
- Australia
- Website:
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A development application is before Waverley Council to allow the construction of 2 x 2 dual occupancy homes (ie 4 residences) at the top of Tamarama Park and fronting Birrell St. If the DA is approved, the heritage listed “Fletchers Glen” waterfall which is within this DA, will be destroyed. The waterfall is highly visible in the Park and as such is regarded as an integral landscape feature within the Tamarama Park Landscape Conservation Area.
The plans do not address how the waterfall will be protected.
The development is large for this very steep site. Significant excavations and concrete retaining walls at the top of Tamarama Park will be required to shore up this development with catastrophic impact upon the surrounding public open space and vegetation.
There is an unmade road through Tamarama Park. The proposed development inevitably resurrects the possibility of laying this road. If this goes ahead, signficant amounts of Park land will be lost to the road - land that people have known to be part of Tamarama Park for many years.
We, the undersigned, call upon Waverley Council to act as a matter of urgency to save the heritage listed waterfall, large boulders and watercourse with the following actions:
1. As the Custodian of the Waverley LGA area’s natural heritage, assets and items of significance, Waverley Council has the moral and legal obligation to protect these items in the public interest and for our future generations.
2. Under no circumstances should Waverley Council approve the DA for 362 Birrell St.
3. As a matter of urgency, Waverley Council is to devise and implement a purchase plan which will see the acquisition of the land at 362 Birrell St which includes the heritage listed waterfall, large boulders and watercourse. Council should also consider acquiring 364 Birrell St.
4. As a matter of urgency, Waverley Council must recommence negotiations with the relevant State Government Minster to finally resolve the underlying zoning “unmade road” part of Birrell Street so that it becomes part of Tamarama Park Landscape Conservation Area in perpetuity.
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The Save Tamarama Park and Waterfall petition to Mayor and Councillors at Waverley Council was written by Paula Masselos and is in the category City & Town Planning at GoPetition.