Moorebank Intermodal Precinct East - Stage 1

The Moorebank site should not be considered due to the noise, environmental and health impact on nearby residents. Liverpool councils suggestion of Badgerys Creek would be better suited as its rural and will have the convenience of access to the new airport.

I wish to formally object to the proposed development of the Intermodal Facility at Moorebank as I believe it will significantly impact on the already congested M5 and contribute significant amounts of additional traffic into the streets surrounding Casula and Wattle Grove. I am also concerned at the additional amounts of pollution that could potentially be discharged into the Georges River, as well as additional air pollution in surrounding suburbs.

We are against this proposal progressing. As residents in nearby Wattle Grove, we believe that not enough consideration has been given to the noise, increase of traffic and additional pollution that will be generated by this facility. We are not against the proposal in totality, but join with the Liverpool Council in suggesting that the facility should be located in an appropriate area, such as Badgerys Creek which will house the new airport and have the facilities and infrastructure to handle it.

I oppose this development. New intermodal terminal should be moved further away from residential land --> Badgery's Creek is ideal. Little to no residential impact, plus there is room for expansion if required in the future.

I oppose this development. New intermodal terminal should be moved further away from residential land --> Badgery's Creek is ideal. Little to no residential impact, plus there is room for expansion if required in the future.

10/06/2015
I object to the intermodal at Moorebank.
These plans for an intermodal at Moorebank were put in place before a final decision was made regarding Badgery's Creek Airport- the decision to go ahead with Badgery's Creek changes the landscape of freight transport in Sydney and it is logical that previous plans and locations for an intermodal would need to be reassessed in light of the recent developments regarding Badgery's Creek.
Liverpool City does not have mountain views or an ocean- but it does have Georges River which has been underappreciated. Instead of degrading the city with more pollution and transport problems, which will lead to further social and economic decline in the area, why not have a win-win situation. An intermodal near Badgery's Creek (logical to most people's thinking), leaving the potential for the beautification of Liverpool. But that's just an opinion of a person with a social conscience and a soul...something that is obviously lacking in some of the SIMTA personnel." Money money money, stuff the locals (and planet), in a SIMTA world..."

Please Stop This Project. we already find a lot of trailers and trucks parking in Anazac Pde before even start of the project. this will convert this area from Quiet livable area to busy industrial area which wasn't the case at the time we decided to buy houses and live there. It's NOT fair to loose the value of our investment specially you have another option to build this intermodal.
the number of car accident will increase if this project go ahead.

Please Stop this Project. It's not the right decision to build this industrial infrastructure in this residential area.
Our Kids will not safe in this environment. the noise level will be very high. it's was not the case when we bought our house. we work every day to pay the mortgage of this investment.

I would like to register my extreme concern following the interim approval of the combined intermodal scheme by the federal government.

My husband and myself and I own Glenfield Farm, an important historic cluster of farm buildings (circa 1817) which directly faces the site of the so-called Glenfield waste facility, a waste facility that, according to Council documentation sighted by me when we bought the house, was to be remediated and turned into public parkland.

I have now seen that, as I understand it, one of two sites now being considered for the two spur lines serving the intermodal will be built directly in the sightline, and within close earshot, of our historic house, on what is referred to as waste facility land. I assume the other option will be the much debated route that will cause major issues to the Powerhouse and riverside.

It seems to me that if, or far more likely when, the "waste facility" site is chosen, rejoicing will take place for saving the Powerhouse, and the issues of the site in front of Glenfield Farm will be overlooked. These issues include the surreptitious acquisition of the public parkland already mentioned, the major loss of amenity both with sight lines and noise that we will face, and not least, the noise that will trash a large section of Leacock Regional Park for peaceful recreational use by the public. James Leacock's generous gift to the public and much of the legacy value of Glenfield Farm (built 1817) will be severely compromised, as it will become a noise abatement corridor for a massive project.

Despite my efforts to find out what was going on, letters I have written to politicians (Warren Truss, Prue Goward) that were not answered, two plain envelope letters that weren't opened until too late to comment on the proposal, have been the only communications I have received, apart from Council flyers. The approval process, as I understand it, legally includes consulting neighbouring landowners. That's us, and I don't believe we have been consulted. We have been starved for information, and treated with utter contempt.

I believe Federal politicians have decided that Casula and Moorebank residents may be dismissed with a cursory approval process that does not meet the spirit of public consultation. The location of the two railway spurs have been treated as a "detail" to be decided later, when they are an intrinsic part of the project and will have a massive negative affect on us or the Powerhouse. The spurs design for in front of our house has tight curves which will result in squealing, something that the engineers are unable to quantify. The noise will go on night and day, 14 hours a day. Where is the compensation offer? Where is the noise abatement plan? Where is any evidence at all that the planners acknowledge that this triple heritage listed property even exists, or will be severely affected?

It appears that the Government sees Moorebank and Casula as new, fractured, working class communities that can easily be victimised by an enormous public/private partnership. The project will massively impact on residents with noise, pollution, and vast continual train and truck movements. The traffic implications are not adequately dealt with, and will see the M5 and new Westconnex severely compromised, further alienating South Western Sydney from the city.

I believe South Western Sydney and ourselves have been treated with contempt, and the Government, which appears to believe Liverpool Council will not stand in its way, deserves an injunction to be placed on this development. In my opinion, this is a classic white elephant development which will ruin the area it is placed in, displace costs to the taxpayer while delivering profits to private companies, and will continue the long tradition of ripping off South Western Sydney residents in favour of central Sydney.

The project should be relocated at Badgery's Creek. The developers hold not be allowed to pile in to our vulnerable community, take its treasures, and force us to watch on in silence as yet again, South Western Sydney's lack of lawyers and political influence is used against us.

This approval is wrong, and the entire project should be reconsidered and relocated.

I believe this will be bad for the people who travel regularly on Moorebank avenue. The heavy vehicle traffic will clog the Moorebank Avenue and will cause huge delays for office goers. Also, the M5 towards city will be clogged. As it is now, M5 is pretty bad during peak hours.

I STRONGLY OBJECT TO THE INTERMODAL BEING BUILT AT MOOREBANK FOR THE HEALTH & SAFETY IMPLICATIONS FOR MY FAMILY & ALL THE OTHER YOUNG FAMILIES THAT CALL THIS AREA HOME.
I UNDERSTAND THIS FACILITY IS NEEDED BUT IT WOULD MAKE BETTER SENSE TO LOCATE IT AT BADGERY'S CREEK CLOSE TO THE NEW AIRPORT.

I have lived in Wattle Grove for 21 years. I built a house here and made this area my home. I like the area because it is relatively flat. My wife suffers from Multiple Sclerosis and we found that being able to have a house with no steps on flat land was important.
During this time we have been the subject of a proposed airport at Holsworthy which was rejected for obvious reasons. One of those reasons was its proximity to a large population of local residential properties. It is history now that the airport will now be built at Badgerys Creek.
Now we have this latest Intermodal proposal which again threatens the health of the local residents. SIMTA's claims that the development will remove so may trucks from our roads is laughable at best. Whose roads are we talking about? Certainly not the roads around Moorebank. There will be a flood of extra truck movements into and out of our area. The proposers are saying millions of extras movements every year. Sydney South West has been identified as an asthma hotspot. This can only get worse as and when the extra traffic and diesel fumes spew forth over our already congested roads and homes.

Liverpool Council has objected to and rejected the proposal for the Moorebank Intermodal. It fully supports the Intermodal to be built at Badgerys Creek where we can have road, rail and air providing the best possible combined infrastructure elements to make the Intermodal do what it is meant to do; The efficient distribution of freight. The SIMTA proposal is purely founded on economic returns for the investors and has no regard for the amenity of the tens of thousands of local residents who will be affected.

Good planning is evident when the health and amenity of the local residents is considered. In this case SIMTA has planned for an economic return on its investment with a total disregard for the local residents. The claims by SIMTA that impacts on the local residents can and will be mitigated is a joke and an insult to anyone with any level of intelligence. How will SIMTA mitigate against the extra diesel exhausts that will enter the atmosphere in the Moorebank area and for miles around. It will not be possible. How will SIMTA mitigate against the huge number of extra truck movements in our local area congesting our roads. They can't.

I endorse and fully support the stance taken by our local State Member Melanie Gibbons in her address to the Legislative Assembly on Thursday 4 June 2015 in respect of the Moorebank Intermodal proposal. Her comments are repeated below...

MOOREBANK INTERMODAL TERMINAL Ms MELANIE GIBBONS (Holsworthy) [6.15 p.m.]:

"Thank you, and welcome to the Speakers Panel. It is nice to see the member for Coogee in the chair. I am incredibly disappointed to be here tonight speaking again on the Moorebank Intermodal Terminal, which my community is constantly threatened with having dumped on it. I am updating the House because contracts have been signed between the Federal Government and the Sydney Intermodal Terminal Alliance [SIMTA] so that they can have the Moorebank Intermodal Company [MIC] and the SIMTA working together as one super freight terminal. I am here tonight to say once again on behalf of my community that this is just not fair. It is not right. It is outrageous. I am appalled. I am not sure I can find the words to explain how dissatisfied I am. I think it is insulting, especially to residents of Wattle Grove and Casula who will bear the brunt of this decision. This development helps Port Botany. It is lovely for Port Botany--it will mean freight comes by train all the way down from the back of Wattle Grove. But those trains will go straight past the backyards of Casula residents in a 24-hour-a-day seven-day-a-week operation. The trains are 1.8 kilometres long. There is no way to avoid their wheels squealing. It is appalling that such impacts in a residential area are considered to be okay. Information from the Moorebank Intermodal Company suggests that local residents will benefit from this project--they should be happy it is coming their way because it will ease traffic on the M5. But in fact, what it will do is bring traffic into the area and impact on more than 20 road intersections. Apparently that is okay because the roads are going to get busier anyway. But it is not okay and it is not good enough. Some road works on Moorebank Avenue are expected to help with this. I have read through the information provided by the company for the next period of community consultation. It says that, should there be an accident on the M5 or Moorebank Avenue, the facility will need to close while the accident is being cleared. Remarkably, there was an accident there today, which is bad timing. If the facility had been open today, it would have had to close down. Just last week there were seven accidents that would have closed down this facility. It is not the ideal facility. These 1.8-kilometre long trains will pull up and will not be able to be cleared because the facility has had to close due to accidents. The Federal Government is apparently putting $370 million into the project, which is worth more than $1 billion. But $1 billion of road and rail upgrades need to be done to make this okay. It will cost $400 million to fix up the M5 so that we can get trucks on and off Moorebank Avenue and onto the Hume Highway. I fully support Badgerys Creek airport as a better option. We need to spend $1 billion to upgrade road and rail in that area anyway. We should put the facility in Badgerys Creek. It is not in the Sydney Basin so the health impacts would not be so severe and it would not block access to the local hospital. We are about to build a new ambulance station on the corner of the Hume Highway and Hoxton Park Road. That is one of the intersections that will be blocked if this intermodal goes ahead. I do not understand how this is a good thing for my area. I think we are being used as a dumping ground. I think that years ago some bureaucrats thought that Moorebank would be a good spot for this facility--except that the area has moved on. Badgerys Creek is a far better place for it. The company says it would take too long, it would be years before an investigation into building the facility at Badgerys Creek could be completed. My community has been fighting this development for five years. We should have listened to the community five years ago and started looking at Badgerys Creek. Now the company is saying Moorebank has to have it because it will take too long to move it to Badgerys Creek. I do not understand how the NSW Planning and Assessment Commission has allowed the SIMTA intermodal to have concept approval for about 250,000 containers. For the joint facility SIMTA wants 1 million containers for local freight and 500,000 containers for interstate freight--so we are talking about 1.5 million containers instead of the 250,000 that are currently in the mix. Ian Hunt, the Chief Executive Officer of the MIC has said that there should be no limit on the number of containers; it should just be whatever the train line can take. He is not worried about what the community can take. It is not good enough. My community will not get signification public benefits; it will only get hindrances. I call on the Federal Government to change the location of this facility. I know I have the support of our local Federal member of Parliament, Craig Kelly, and the local council."
Private members' statements concluded. The House adjourned, pursuant to standing and sessional orders, at 6.21 p.m. until Tuesday 23 June 2015 at 12 noon.


The Federal Member for Hughes the Honourable Craig Kelly also rejects the proposal for the same reasons.

My submission does not quote numbers and cannot be forensically tested but is based upon our level of dismay for this proposal. The SIMTA proposal is based upon supposedly hurting a few for the greater good. The SIMTA bottom line will be the winner.

I reject any and all proposals for any Intermodals at Moorebank.

As has been conveyed in many forums, the Moorebank site is not suitable for this or any intermodal! This has been stated time and again by residents of Wattle Grove and Casula and yet no notice is being paid to the concerns of the residents of this area. it can therefore be concluded that the so called consultation is just a sham! Pollution is what our leaders are promising! Air pollution, noise pollution, environmental pollution, light pollution, not to mention clogged roads etc etc etc. Is this what we want? A resounding NO! What did the people in this residential area do to deserve this? Please show some leadership and reject this proposal which is just corporate greed. Our Council, our representatives in both state and federal parliaments oppose this as well. They are the voice of the people. Are you going to listen to them?

As has been conveyed in many forums, the Moorebank site is not suitable for this intermodal! This has been stated time and again by residents of Wattle Grove and Casula and yet no notice is being paid to the concerns of the residents of this area. it can therefore be concluded that the so called consultation is just a sham! Pollution is what our leaders are promising! Air pollution, noise pollution, environmental pollution, light pollution, not to mention clogged roads etc etc etc. Is this what we want? A resounding NO! What did the people in this residential area do to deserve this? Please show some leadership and reject this proposal which is just corporate greed. Our Council, our representatives in both state and federal parliaments oppose this as well. They are the voice of the people. Are you going to listen to them?

The SSFL backs onto my property. Regardless of what the pollution and noise studies reveal, I know that the SSFL has already had a detrimental affect on my family and that the increased noise of additional trains once the intermodal opens (even at reduced capacity) will only increase the problem. Sound barriers along the rail corridor from Glenfield to Casula have to be part of the initial works when the project begins. It is not fair to the residents to build a a rail line in their backyard without barriers and then to increase those trains to "just below" acceptable noise volumes without mitigating the rail noise. I understadnd the need for the intermodal but be fair to residents.

The Georges River must be kept as pristine as possible for future generations. Please DO NOT BUILD an Intermodel at Moorebank. Pollution is bad enough without adding more deissl and petrol fumes etc near the river polluting it more. Liverpool Council has already begun to clean up the river water and river banks. If one walks alongside the river where this has happened will realize how beneficial it is for everyone. Once the river goes it is gone FOREVER. Liverpool City has enough traffice and pollution without making it worse....
The Intermodel being built at Badgery's Creek makes more sense due to the fact that the airport will be built there. The infrastructure has already begun with widening and closure of roads and resumption of properties for future use for roads, railway and airport. In a perfect world this would not need to be done but the Government and it's departments have decided and moved with mounds of earth are being moved and deosited elsewhere.
The roadways are chocker blocked with this becoming worse. Encourage a long term view and consider more use of the railways and it's neetwork.
NO INTERMODEL AT MOOREBANK!!!!!!!!!

I object to this Moorebank Intermodal project being established in a residential area surrounded by thousands of private home owners, schools, hospitals, churches, pre-schools, parks and shopping centres.

The mere fact that this project will bring with it: heavy diesl traffic from trucks, diesel engined trains, traffic congestion, road damage, noise and air pollution alone give reason to object to such a project amongst thousands of people in the surrounding areas of this proposed site for this Holsworthy/Moorebank INTERMODAL FREIGHT HUB, Many local residents still believe this is not going to happen and have yet therefore not begun to speak out against this proposal.

If the government is so confident this is a GOOD enterprise for the people in the surrounding area of this Moorebank/Holsworthy intermodal freight hub then why is it that they are absolutely so secretive about the proposal on a much more transparent and open disclosure to those who would be living with this intermodal monstrosity! I object, I object, I object to this coming to my area and do plead with those government & private individuals who are responsible for this project to reconsider this and move your proposal far, far away from communities for the sake of health & well being of your citizens.

Badgerys Creek is a more obvious intermodal site.

An intermodal at moorebank makes no social, environmental and economic sense.

First home owners, build intermodal elsewhere!