| # | Name | Comments |
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| 501 | Anonymous | |
| 502 | Phil Sutton | This is an outrage. The area is already in crisis due to inadequate roadways to serve the enormous volume of traffic through streets build for 1800's horses and carts. Maybe building a tunnel would solve it all! Think about small business and the ruination of our great village community.There are more than adequate shopping facilities in the locale to meet the needs of the area. |
| 503 | Meg Brighton | |
| 504 | Nicolas Emmanuel-Emile | |
| 505 | Kate Briscoe | I worked as community arts advisor on South Sydney Council, with community consultation we worked to enhance the area and turn a dismal run down area into the vibrant and thriving aplace that Erskineville Village has become. Beginning with Green Bans Park everything that council did was with community consultation. This community deserves better that to just foist a totally superfluous, polluting and commercially aggressive developement on them. does this council want to maintain this functioning villge or make it into a car park for a supermarket, complete with a forrest of abandonned shopping trolleys? |
| 506 | Anonymous | |
| 507 | Michael Knight | |
| 508 | Michael Knight | |
| 509 | Michael Knight | |
| 510 | Jennifer Barnett | It is the most ridiculous proposal to actually create MORE traffic on Erskineville Road. There is NO NEED for a supermarket when there are 2 within walking distance and Marrickville Metro and Broadway a very short distance away as well.
If Clover Moore is serious about "villages" this is not what villages do. Large corporations like the bloodsuckers from Woolworths have no place in our village. |
| 511 | graeme curnick | |
| 512 | Anonymous | |
| 513 | Jane Mackarell | I would have thought this type of development was the plan for Green Square rather than Erskineville. |
| 514 | Keith Olsen | Great idea, just what we need. More traffic , shopping trolleys all over the place. Imagine the fun those tractor drivers will have collecting them in the narrow one-way streets of Erko.
And I guess you could kiss goodbye to most of the small business's on erko rd.
Don't let it happen. |
| 515 | Karen Mathieson | This proposed development is ridiclous. Already we cannot park in our area due to limited street spaces, and now we have a large multi-national proposing a centre with nowhere near adequate provision for cars. Why not develop something like this in Alexandria, not in high desinty residential Erskinveville. |
| 516 | Karin Darker | See my comments on the comments page |
| 517 | Anonymous | I would like to register my objection to the proposed development for a Woolworths and Liquor Land on the site at the corner of Gowrie St and Erskineville Rd in Erskineville. I have practiced as a GP on Erskineville Rd since 1985 and in the past 2 - 3 years I have been called to attend several motor vehicle accidents along the road. There is already too much traffic, the roads have been narrowed to encourage street cafes and a 'villagey' feel. Why expose the area to more cars and deliveries from trucks? The roads are mostly narrow and one way and cannot accommodate any more cars. In May 07 my own front window was ploughed into by a delivery van causing major damage and exposing pedestrians and patients in my waiting room to unprecedented danger. It is unconscionable that this development be approved ,especially considering that the City Council has spent a lot of money to make Erskineville the place that its residents have worked so hard to preserve,so that its spirit is maintained.
Sincerely,
Patricia Walton |
| 518 | Heather Tindale | A development such as the proposed "Woolies" would forever extinguish the village of Erskineville. |
| 519 | Suzanna Henke | I think this will ruin the whole village feel. It would be an absolute disaster. The metro is less than 2km away, i don't have a car but have no issues shopping, i use my local shop. |
| 520 | Martin Venier | Dear Clover
Please do not allow such an inappropriate development. Any development on this site needs to protect an enhance residents' amnity and needs to be appropriate for the level of traffic already in the area
Regards
Martin |
| 521 | MElanie Alexander | WE REALLY DO NOT NEED A MULTINATIONAL SUPERMARKET IN THIS VILLAGE. CITY OF SYDNEY DWELLERS ARE FAR MORE DISCERNING ABOUT WHERE THEY SHOP AND WHO THEY SUPPORT FINANCIALLY AND IT IS NOT WOOLWORTHS BECAUSE THIS IS NOT LOCAL IT EQUATES WITH A MCDONALDS IN THE VIEW OF THIS PARTICULAR DEMOGRAPHIC AND WILL NOT BE SUPPORTED. WE WILL SUPPORT GROWERS MARKETS AND INDEPENDENT BUSINESSES AND REAL FOOD SUPPLIERS WITH REAL ETHICS |
| 522 | Chris Ord | |
| 523 | Karen Stevenson | |
| 524 | Lisa Rose | we don't need another supermarket in this area and the traffic and parking in the Newtown/Erskineville area is already congested. |
| 525 | Anonymous | The business community of Erskineville will be affected by this devlopment, plus there are already 2 supernmarkets on Kings St, Broadway shopping centre and Marrickville Metro. The proposed devlopment is contradictory to the village environment of Erskineville. |
| 526 | Alexander McDonald | I am in no doubt that this will have a massive detrimental effect on Erskinville village. From botched traffic reports by the developer themselves (god only knows why this would be considered fair), to never being able to get into my street because of delivery trucks, people trying to park, and so on. This is utter nonsense and should be stopped. |
| 527 | Jacinta Pusey | We don't need another supermarket in the area. Things are getting crowded enough as they are! |
| 528 | Anonymous | |
| 529 | Brendan Fry | I agree that another supermarket in the newtown/erskineville area is not needed. It makes more sense for development to process in the alexandria/zetland area where it is needed. |
| 530 | Troy Mason | This DEvelopment is unnecessary, will be detrimental to the lives of residents and ruin Erskineville Village |
| 531 | nina buchanan | |
| 532 | sue foster | |
| 533 | George Morrison | |
| 534 | judy rapley | I've been living close to Erskineville for 15 years, my son went to Newtown Primary and he's now at Newtown High School of the Performing Arts. As a consequence I know the area well. I'm totally opposed to a supermarket being built on the proposed site. Given the commercial infrastructure already in place in Erskineville and Newtown a large development of this type is completety unnecessary. I cannot state my opposition strongly enough. |
| 535 | John Biggins | In reference to the Councils 2007 Local Action Plan, there is no way possible that this proposed development could be consistent the researched local communities values or the councils written undertakings to address and uphold them. |
| 536 | Anonymous | I support the sentiments outlined above, and add that I believe that this development will almost certainly have a detrimental effect on:
i. already congested parking in surrounding streets (I live in Gowrie St, which usually has no parking spaces after 7.00 pm each night);
ii. traffic volumes. Gowrie and Angel Streets are narrow local streets of low capacity, and Erskineville Rd is (even now) often congested and at standstill for extended periods;
iii. noise levels. This area is very quiet after 7.00 pm each night;
iv. existing local grocery businesses in Erskineville and Newtown; and
v. the delineation between the Newtown and Erskineville retail strips. |
| 537 | Kelly Miller | |
| 538 | Philip Pritchard | This development is not needed: there are plenty of shopping alternatives and the impact on the local businesses would be devastating. I cannot imagine that the impact of increased traffic has been considered otherwise the application would be denied immediately. |
| 539 | Manfred Meingast | No more traffic in this area - please. No more large shops. Retain our village feeling. |
| 540 | Anonymous | |
| 541 | Marita Dortins | There are so few inner city suburbs that are can still be called villages. Please don't destroy Erskineville! |
| 542 | Kate Sutton | A new supermarket appears to be another massive over devlopment in the city of Sydney area and the needs. The effect on traffic volume on Erkineville road is completely unexceptable. Let's continue the councils great initative to maintain and enhance the 'City of Villages' character of commuinity focused town centre. |
| 543 | Maude Frances | |
| 544 | Lindsay Roche | |
| 545 | ross forman | |
| 546 | Anna Di Bartolo | I say NO NO NO way |
| 547 | Sally Nicoll | The uniqueness and charm of Erskineville village will be destroyed if the development goes ahead. There are many other sites where Woolworths could open up in the area. Why can't we have a few shopping strips left with local shops and businessess that offer consumers something different. |
| 548 | Charles Nicoll | Let's preserve the village way of life being promoted by the City of Sydney council, by keeping one of the best examples of "the village" out of reach of greedy self serving developers. The congestion on that road is bad enough without addition parking and traffic problems. |
| 549 | Mandy Douglas | NO Woolworths for Erskineville. |
| 550 | Lisa Neath | |