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Rozelle Bay Dry Dock Storage APPROVED 23 May 2007

 

The $63m project will close off public foreshore access during operating hours. This benefits NOT the wider community, but mainly the developer and a few hundred wealthy private power boat owners that will add further congestion on narrow waterways of Sydney Harbour. The Authorities should be encouraging the use of public transport on Sydney Harbour and NOT the use of private power boats.

This is a disgraceful act by a State Labor Government. It seems Min. Frank Sartor would allow boat storage warehouses in Sydney Botanical Gardens, if he thought he could get away with it.  That would have to make Frank Sartor the "Gordon Gekko" of Sydney Harbour Planning?

Minister Sartor didn't have the courage to announce approval of the Rozelle Bay Boat Storage $63 million proposal before the 23 March 2007 election. A huge amount of money was spent demolishing the old Hobbs warehouse and installing new road works in the months before the election. The layout of cleared land and new road works just so happens "coincidently" to conform precisely with layout of Rozelle Bay Boat Storage facilities, approved by Minister Sartor on 23 May 2007.

For the local community the bulk and height of these structures and the noise and congestion on the harbour by power boats will be a permanent reminder of State Labor priorities. This is not a good omen for the prospects of reelection of the local NSW Labor candidate at next State election.

Why allow such huge structures at a gateway to Sydney CBD Harbour region? It will dominate the landscape, block-off public foreshore access and congest inner city Sydney Harbour waterways.

The 26m tall "boat shed" will dominate the harbour foreshore ... Click on images for a larger view. NB: 26m is equivalent to 9 storeys building height - a blight on the inner Sydney Harbour foreshore.

The applicant used the height and bulk of the Glebe Island silos as part of their justification for the height and bulk of the Rozelle Bay boat storage facilities - no doubt the same tactic will also be used in respect of building height and bulk for the White Bay - Glebe Island Master Plan.

The domineering size and bulk of the structures will alienate people from Annandale, Glebe, Lilyfield and Rozelle for decades to come. It will block-off public access to the harbour foreshore for hundreds of metres along Rozelle Bay. You will have to walk around the back of these huge structures to get to the base of Anzac Bridge. It will block the panoramic views from the western exit of Anzac Bridge across Rozelle Bay. It will form a steel curtain between Federation Park and the Balmain peninsula. Several huge steel sheds with little architectural variation. 

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