Moorebank Waste Facility

Dear All

The proposed materials recycling facility at Moorebank is not acceptable.

When I purchased plot at Georges Fair from Investa, there was absolutely nothing on their (Georges Fair nor the Investa) website that described a proposed recycling plant capable of 324 (20 tonne) truck movements per day just meters from my street Maddecks Avenue. In fact there was nothing on Clarendon's website, the company that is building my home. In fact, there was nothing even on Liverpool City Council's website about a 500,000 tonne recycling facility to be built. What I was told by the land seller employed by Investa, at Georges Fair, was that the Benedict Sand Recycler was to be decommissioned and a Marina was to be built in its place nearby on the Georges River. The interested parties have known all along what would be happening and have duped all the residents.

Lack of communication to buyers/ residents on this matter only signifies the intention of deception in selling. You know why, because nobody would spend close to 700,000 dollars to be living near the biggest proposed recycling plant in Sydney? The honest answer must be "No".

Obviously this deal between the Recycler and State Government has been going on for decades.

My objection is described below:

1. Irrespective what the Recycler says: There is NO need for the project. It should be stopped by State Government and Local Government should rally on the support of their rate payers. There are many recycling facilities in Sydney's basin. It does not need another one with such environmental, health, aesthetic drawbacks. The project will employ only a handful of people when it is up and running yet operate 6 days per week in a family residential zoned community, devaluating property values, environmental damaging the Georges River and its flora and fauna, create great risk of injury to residents by the estimated 324 truck runs per day.
2. Visual Impact: It's a monster. Despite the trees. 30 meter high stack piles of bitumen, bricks, road base and other construction material with the real possibility of asbestos fibres. The sand piles currently can be seen from the Elizabeth Drive in Liverpool on the way down from Cowpasture Rd, along Elizabeth Drive heading into Liverpool. They look like icebergs. It's disgusting to know that our children are living here. The asbestos issue will land the Recycler in Court, and they'll get a small fine. But they won't care.
3. Air Quality: Real danger with the unknown particles throughout the air with open roof crushing occurring from 7am-630pm 6 days per week. What will we be breathing and wearing. It needs to be stopped.
4. Noise: The dirt, the smell, the trucks and the noise is only going to magnify 1000 per cent than what it is now. With 324 truck runs daily. Huge crushers to crunch the construction material into recyclable waste.
5. Traffic and transport is already pretty bad in the Georges fair estate. Brickmakers Drive we thought was built for the residents, only to find out now it was built for the trucks to access the recycling site. Residents have Brickmakers Drive or Maddocks Rd to exit onto Newbridge or Nuwarra Road respectively. Most of the houses are not even constructed as yet. The problem will become exponential once the recycling facility begins. The Brickmakers drive and the trucks will be considered a place of work for the Recycler endangering the residents with accidents. Claims will be made against the recycler. It should not be permissible to be a place of work for the Recycler.

You must understand, I would not have purchased and built in the Georges Fair estate if I had known that the Moorebank Recycler was even a chance of operating. I was advised that the Benedict Sand Yard would be decommissioned and a Marina built in its place, elevating the property value, making it a beautiful place to raise a young family so close to the heart of Liverpool.

It is a disgrace that we have all been deceived.

Dear All

The proposed materials recycling facility at Moorebank is not acceptable.

When I purchased plot at Georges Fair from Investa, there was absolutely nothing on their (Georges Fair nor the Investa) website that described a proposed recycling plant capable of 324 (20 tonne) truck movements per day just meters from my street Maddecks Avenue. In fact there was nothing on Clarendon's website, the company that is building my home. In fact, there was nothing even on Liverpool City Council's website about a 500,000 tonne recycling facility to be built. What I was told by the land seller employed by Investa, at Georges Fair, was that the Benedict Sand Recycler was to be decommissioned and a Marina was to be built in its place nearby on the Georges River. The interested parties have known all along what would be happening and have duped all the residents.

Lack of communication to buyers/ residents on this matter only signifies the intention of deception in selling. You know why, because nobody would spend close to 700,000 dollars to be living near the biggest proposed recycling plant in Sydney? The honest answer must be "No".

Obviously this deal between the Recycler and State Government has been going on for decades.

My objection is described below:

1. Irrespective what the Recycler says: There is NO need for the project. It should be stopped by State Government and Local Government should rally on the support of their rate payers. There are many recycling facilities in Sydney's basin. It does not need another one with such environmental, health, aesthetic drawbacks. The project will employ only a handful of people when it is up and running yet operate 6 days per week in a family residential zoned community, devaluating property values, environmental damaging the Georges River and its flora and fauna, create great risk of injury to residents by the estimated 324 truck runs per day.
2. Visual Impact: It's a monster. Despite the trees. 30 meter high stack piles of bitumen, bricks, road base and other construction material with the real possibility of asbestos fibres. The sand piles currently can be seen from the Elizabeth Drive in Liverpool on the way down from Cowpasture Rd, along Elizabeth Drive heading into Liverpool. They look like icebergs. It's disgusting to know that our children are living here. The asbestos issue will land the Recycler in Court, and they'll get a small fine. But they won't care.
3. Air Quality: Real danger with the unknown particles throughout the air with open roof crushing occurring from 7am-630pm 6 days per week. What will we be breathing and wearing. It needs to be stopped.
4. Noise: The dirt, the smell, the trucks and the noise is only going to magnify 1000 per cent than what it is now. With 324 truck runs daily. Huge crushers to crunch the construction material into recyclable waste.
5. Traffic and transport is already pretty bad in the Georges fair estate. Brickmakers Drive we thought was built for the residents, only to find out now it was built for the trucks to access the recycling site. Residents have Brickmakers Drive or Maddocks Rd to exit onto Newbridge or Nuwarra Road respectively. Most of the houses are not even constructed as yet. The problem will become exponential once the recycling facility begins. The Brickmakers drive and the trucks will be considered a place of work for the Recycler endangering the residents with accidents. Claims will be made against the recycler. It should not be permissible to be a place of work for the Recycler.

You must understand, I would not have purchased and built in the Georges Fair estate if I had known that the Moorebank Recycler was even a chance of operating. I was advised that the Benedict Sand Yard would be decommissioned and a Marina built in its place, elevating the property value, making it a beautiful place to raise a young family so close to the heart of Liverpool.

It is a disgrace that we have all been deceived.

Moorebank Waste Facility - A neighbourhood Nightmare

I am a little confused as to why a waste facility company finds it necessary to be based in a growing residential community?
The Liverpool area has an abundance of industrial sites that can cater for such proposals.
The truth of the matter is that there is no compatibility between what is proposed and what is currently there, it is that simple!
Please do the right thing..

Moorebank Application 05_0157
I Oppose to the application of the Recycling Facility
It states operation times will be 7am -6pm however they will allow to load and unload from 6am, this will mean trucks will arrive around 5am to be first in line to load and unload 6 days a week.
This is an absolute nightmare, how can you even contemplate building this monstrosity, and life shattering facility in a suburban area.
We bought the land in Georges Fair hoping it would be a great family environment, we were lied to and decieved as they told us Brickmakers Drive will only have light traffic, and made no mention of this facility when they must of know full well that this was going to happen, all in the name of money otherwise no one would have bought
Say NO to this Facilty so we can go back to a stress free life
NO NO NO

I strongly object to the proposal MP 05_0157 Moorebank waste facility for the following reasons:

1/ it would be a serious health risk for the public.
The unavoidable high concentration of airborne pollution in the area near the proposed recycling facility would be impossible to completely contain, and therefore, would inevitably be a major health hazard to both the local environment and the public. If it is true that the objectives of the Public Health Act 2010 include " to promote, protect and improve public health," then the NSW Department of Planning and Infrastructure should be protecting the residents of the areas that would be potentially affected by airborne pollution (such as Moorebank, Chipping Norton, Milperra, Hammondville, Wattle Grove, Voyager Point), by rejecting the application.

2/it would be a serious health risk to the environment.
The unavoidable high concentration of airborne pollution in the area would be a major hazard not just to the residents, but also the environment - with air-borne pollution created by the crushing of "materials" right alongside the Georges River, how is the river going to be protected from the pollution that will fall directly into it and be carried downstream and upstream?

3/it would cause substantial traffic congestion.
Newbridge road itself, and Brickmakers Drive turning onto Newbridge road and exiting Newbridge road is already congested enough in peak hour as it is. And this is before the residential development Georges Fair is completed. Once completed, the residential development will cause enough congestion as it is. Extra traffic brought about by at minimum an extra 324 trucks travelling on Newbridge rd and exiting on or near Brickmakers Drive would bring intersections between Brickmakers Drive, Governer Macquarie Drive and Newbridge Rd to a gridlock. Not to mention the traffic that will bank up at the intersections of Henry Lawson Drive and Newbridge Rd and Nuwarra Rd and Newbridge Rd. Furthermore, with the extra traffic that would be brought about by a recycling facility being specifically trucks, the potential for serious accidents on Brickmakers Drive between cars and trucks, pedestrians and trucks, and cyclists and trucks would be increased , and the traffic noise and traffic pollution in a residential area would be significantly increased.

4/ the data in parts of the Traffic and Parking Assessment submitted is already outdated.
The traffic Report on existing traffic conditions for Nuwarra Road south of Junction Road and Governor Macquarie drive north of Balanada Avenue used data from February 2011, surely that data should have no currency. But more importantly, the traffic report on existing traffic conditions for Brickmakers Drive north of Maddecks Avenue used data from October 2012 only weeks after the road was opened! The difference in traffic volume on Brickmakers Drive from October/November 2012 till March 2013 (only 4 months) has indubitably increased, and therefore the traffic report is seemingly insufficient.


Therefore, on the basis of public health risk, environmental health risk, traffic chaos, and outdated traffic volume data, I ask that the application be permanently rejected.

Name : Labiba Georgi
Project Application Number : 05_0157

I am writing this email to OBJECT to the proposed Moorebank Recycling facility.

My three children have asthma as do many children and older adults. I do not want any recycling plant processing building and construction material operating right at the end of my street as this is detrimental to human health. I believe that this recycling plant will bring with it many illnesses such as asthma, lung cancer, heart disease, type 2 diabetes and development issues in children amongst other major illnesses.

The impacts of dust, noise and heavy vehicle traffic (324 movement per day) will be unbearable and is not the lifestyle that I anticipated when purchasing my land in Georges Fair in August 2012. I paid top dollar for my land and I will be spending a lot of money whilst building my dream home in Georges Fair.

I believe that their has been no formal Environmental Assessment submitted .
I spoke to Emma Barnet on 25/2/2013 from planning & infrastructure and asked if any environmental assessment was made on how this proposal would impact on both the environment and the surrounding RESIDENTIAL neighbourhood and I was told that no assessment was made yet. Emma's response was that the assessment would be done after exhibition of the proposal.

The details of the development sent last year to neighbours in George Fair show that the activities will not be carried out in an enclosed facility and will involve 324 heavy truck movements daily with 500,000 tonnes per annum of building and construction waste processing .

A recycling plant such as the one proposed with heavy industrial activity should be relocated to a suitable industrial zone. This heavy industrial activity appears totally incompatible with the residential, recreational and environmental land uses which now surround the development. In particular Council's efforts to reconnect the community to the river foreshore with the establishment of publicly owned bike paths and picnic areas along the foreshore will be dealt a severe blow as this heavy industrial type development will encroach right up to this public asset.


Kind Regards
Labiba Georgi

I oppose the Moorebank Recycling plant, because of the inherent health risks, damage to the environment, both noise and environment pollution issues, and general damage to our new way of life in the Georges Fair Estate.

Please see attached document for a further detailed opposition.

Hi. Me and my family will be building at Georges Fair which is so close the the area where the said recycling plant will be. I would like to show my objection to this as this will affect the lifestyle and environment that I was hoping for my family especially my daughter. The toxic waste that might come out off this recylcling plant will be very hazardous to all residents in the area. Georges fair is a community full of families with kids and I hope you think about them.

To Whom It May Concern,

We are a young family who purchased a land and just been built our dream house at Georges Fair Moorebank. My wife and I have worked really hard to save up for our house. We chose this area as we thought it is a beautiful to live in and for our 8 year old daughter to grow up in.

We have been very excited and glad from choosing our land to building our house until we came to learn that a Recycling Plan will be built in the near future which is right across Georges Fair. Hearing this, is like someone had stepped on our chest where you cant hardly breath and not knowing what our future lies ahead us at Georges Fair.

We are against this proposal. We feel very scared right now thinking all the outcomes if this proposal will go ahead. Firstly, health and safety issue. After reading the proposal, the facility will operate from Monday to Saturday with loads of trucks passing through 6days a week, this can more traffic in the area, compression braking noise from trucks and an accident waiting accident for all our young children in the area. Above all that the main killer is what are being recycled in the plant which includes asbestos. It is so upsetting to think not knowing what you are breathing in the air with the dust particles that will come from the recycling plant. Dust particles are very hard to contain and not knowing what affect could have on us be either short or long term is very scary.

Secondly, we have paid a lot of money to built our house. Having a recycling plant next to you will definitely devalue our property. This is not very fair for us.

No one specially here in Australia and being a developed country should a family be tormented with this kind situation. Recycling Plant must relocate where it is not close to residential area.

Sincerely Yours,
William & Mary May North

MP 05_0157 Moorebank Recyclers

I, OBJECT to this completely unacceptable proposal.
My daughter and her yopung family live in close proximity to the area and i find it astonishing that it would even be considered. This area, in recent times has been made available to residential development. It is ludicrous to think that people with young families would be put at risk by living so close to potential hazardous pollution. Who will give answers and pay medical costs if SILICA is present and adversely affects people living close by. www.//en.wikipedia.org/silicosis.
Why would such a facility not be more appropriately located to an industrial area, where the potential risk to our citizens is far lower?? I am shocked and saddened at the system that allows this type of risk to even see it come this far.

I object to project application number 05_0157.

I strongly object as the recycling area will bring with it horrible smells causing rotents and a bad environment for our children to grow up in. Living in George's Fair will be less appealing reducing house prices and creating bad fumes.

The proposed materials recycling facility at Moorebank was a surprise to me. Horrifying.

When I purchased Lot 2201 in 2010 at Georges Fair from Investa, there was absolutely nothing on their (Georges Fair nor the Investa) website that described a proposed recycling plant capable of 324 (20 tonne) truck movements per day just meters from my street Christiansen Boulevard. In fact there was nothing on Clarendon's website, the company that built my home. In fact, there was nothing even on Liverpool City Council's website about a 500,000 tonne recycling facility to be built only 12 months after I've moved in to my family home, with my wife and two young children. What I was told by Jacki Ari, the Land seller employed by Investa, at Georges Fair, was that the Benedict Sand Recycler was to be decommissioned and a Marina was to be built in its place nearby on the Georges River. The interested parties have known all along what would be happening and have duped all the residents.

This smacks of corruption in the McDonald sense, the Obeid sense and in every sense, just plain deceptive and misleading of the interests at play (Liverpool Council, Investa and the Builders of this estate).

Why on earth would not one of these bodies informed me and all the other purchasers that this was at least on the cards. You know why, because nobody would have purchased at the price we have. Would you spend close to 1 million dollars to be living near the biggest proposed recycling plant in Sydney? The honest answer must be "No".

Obviously this deal between the Recycler and State Government has been going on for decades.

My objection is described below:

1. Irrespective what the Recycler says: There is NO need for the project. It should be stopped by State Government and Local Government should rally on the support of their rate payers. There are many recycling facilities in Sydney's basin. It does not need another one with such environmental, health, aesthetic drawbacks. The project will employ only a handful of people when it is up and running yet operate 6 days per week in a family residential zoned community, devaluating property values, environmental damaging the Georges River and its flora and fauna, create great risk of injury to residents by the estimated 324 truck runs per day.
2. Visual Impact: It's a monster. Despite the trees. 30 meter high stack piles of bitumen, bricks, road base and other construction material with the real possibility of asbestos fibres. The sand piles currently can be seen from the Elizabeth Drive in Liverpool on the way down from Cowpasture Rd, along Elizabeth Drive heading into Liverpool. They look like icebergs. It's disgusting to know that our children are living here. The asbestos issue will land the Recycler in Court, and they'll get a small fine. But they won't care.
3. Air Quality: Real danger with the unknown particles throughout the air with open roof crushing occurring from 7am-630pm 6 days per week. What will we be breathing and wearing. It needs to be stopped.
4. Noise: The noise when they built the round-about was horrendous on the corner of Brickmakers Drive and Christiansen Boulevard. The dirt, the smell, the trucks. It's only going to magnify 1000 per cent. With 324 truck runs daily. Huge crushers to crunch the construction material into recyclable waste.
5. Traffic and transport is already pretty bad in the Georges fair estate. Brickmakers Drive we thought was built for the residents, only to find out now it was built for the trucks to access the recycling site. Residents have Brickmakers Drive or Maddocks Rd to exit onto Newbridge or Nuwarra Road respectively. Half the houses are not even constructed as yet. The problem will become exponential once the recycling facility begins. The Brickmakers drive and the trucks will be considered a place of work for the Recycler endangering the residents with accidents. Claims will be made against the recycler. I want Brickmakers Drive closed for heavy truck vehicles. It should not be permissible to be a place of work for the Recycler.

You must understand, I would not have purchased and built in the Georges Fair estate if I had known that the Moorebank Recycler was even a chance of operating. I was advised by Jacki Ari, the Benedict Sand Yard would be decommissioned and a Marina built in its place, elevating the property value, making it a beautiful place to raise a young family so close to the heart of Liverpool.

It is a disgrace that we have all been deceived.

Local Government Councillors, Local Members for Parliament (Menai), the Premier, you all need to hang your heads in shame for allowing this debacle to carry on for 20 years and get to Environmental Assessment stage and you should stand up for the people that put you in your seat of power. Say "No" to the Moorebank Recycling Facility. It smells of corruption. Stop it being built for the objections I've raised.

The proposed materials recycling facility at Moorebank was a surprise to me. Horrifying.

When I purchased Lot 2201 in 2010 at Georges Fair from Investa, there was absolutely nothing on their (Georges Fair nor the Investa) website that described a proposed recycling plant capable of 324 (20 tonne) truck movements per day just meters from my street Christiansen Boulevard. In fact there was nothing on Clarendon's website, the company that built my home. In fact, there was nothing even on Liverpool City Council's website about a 500,000 tonne recycling facility to be built only 12 months after I've moved in to my family home, with my wife and two young children. What I was told by Jacki Ari, the Land seller employed by Investa, at Georges Fair, was that the Benedict Sand Recycler was to be decommissioned and a Marina was to be built in its place nearby on the Georges River. The interested parties have known all along what would be happening and have duped all the residents.

This smacks of corruption and misleading/deceptive conduct on the part of Liverpool Council and the developer Investa Pty Ltd.

Why on earth would not one of these bodies informed me and all the other purchasers that this was at least on the cards. You know why, because nobody would have purchased at the price we have. Would you spend close to 1 million dollars to be living near the biggest proposed recycling plant in Sydney? The honest answer must be "No".

Obviously this deal between the Recycler and State Government has been going on for decades.

My objection is described below:

1. Irrespective what the Recycler says: There is NO need for the project. It should be stopped by State Government and Local Government should rally on the support of their rate payers. There are many recycling facilities in Sydney's basin. It does not need another one with such environmental, health, aesthetic drawbacks. The project will employ only a handful of people when it is up and running yet operate 6 days per week in a family residential zoned community, devaluating property values, environmental damaging the Georges River and its flora and fauna, create great risk of injury to residents by the estimated 324 truck runs per day.
2. Visual Impact: It's a monster. Despite the trees. 30 meter high stack piles of bitumen, bricks, road base and other construction material with the real possibility of asbestos fibres. The sand piles currently can be seen from the Elizabeth Drive in Liverpool on the way down from Cowpasture Rd, along Elizabeth Drive heading into Liverpool. They look like icebergs. It's disgusting to know that our children are living here. The asbestos issue will land the Recycler in Court, and they'll get a small fine. But they won't care.
3. Air Quality: Real danger with the unknown particles throughout the air with open roof crushing occurring from 7am-630pm 6 days per week. What will we be breathing and wearing. It needs to be stopped.
4. Noise: The noise when they built the round-about was horrendous on the corner of Brickmakers Drive and Christiansen Boulevard. The dirt, the smell, the trucks. It's only going to magnify 1000 per cent. With 324 truck runs daily. Huge crushers to crunch the construction material into recyclable waste.
5. Traffic and transport is already pretty bad in the Georges fair estate. Brickmakers Drive we thought was built for the residents, only to find out now it was built for the trucks to access the recycling site. Residents have Brickmakers Drive or Maddocks Rd to exit onto Newbridge or Nuwarra Road respectively. Half the houses are not even constructed as yet. The problem will become exponential once the recycling facility begins. The Brickmakers drive and the trucks will be considered a place of work for the Recycler endangering the residents with accidents. Claims will be made against the recycler. I want Brickmakers Drive closed for heavy truck vehicles. It should not be permissible to be a place of work for the Recycler.

You must understand, I would not have purchased and built in the Georges Fair estate if I had known that the Moorebank Recycler was even a chance of operating. I was advised by Jacki Ari, the Benedict Sand Yard would be decommissioned and a Marina built in its place, elevating the property value, making it a beautiful place to raise a young family so close to the heart of Liverpool.

It is a disgrace that we have all been deceived.

Local Government Councillors, Local Members for Parliament (Menai), the Premier, you all need to hang your heads in shame for allowing this debacle to carry on for 20 years and get to Environmental Assessment stage and you should stand up for the people that put you in your seat of power. Say "No" to the Moorebank Recycling Facility. It smells of corruption. Stop it being built for the objections I've raised.

Proposed Materials recycling Facility -Moorebanks (05_0157)I
I live at Wattle Grove and am absolutely appalled that you are considering putting a recycling plant into a suburban area. I am 76 years old and did not think I would see the day that councils could put the public at health risk with dust, noise, vibration, stress, sleep apnia etc through trucks, extra traffic, crushing of construction wast.
Get real and say NO to this, what happened to government for the people.
The extra traffic it will put on the road throughout our small communities from Wattle Grove, Moorebank, Milperra, Georges Fair, Hammodville, Warrick Farm. Liverpool will be horrific.
Please look at the effect this will have on the lives not only people who live in these areas now but generations to come, this is absolute madness, listen to the people and consider us, our children and grandchildren to come, say NO Please say No

Proposed Materials recycling Facility -Moorebanks (05_0157)
I have just moved into Georges Fair with my Mum, Dad and brother, I am really worried about this facility. There will be a lot more noise in the area and dust possibly asbestos dust. My dad gets up early to go to work what will the noise of trucks do to him, I love my family and wanted this to be a great time in a new house and already all we are doing is worrying about this, it is already having an affect on my family. Please do not build this recycling facility I want to have a long and happy life not one of one of worry

We have a 10 months old son with serious eczema, we have spend alot off money to get him well till this stage, This project will make him suffer more in enviroment wise.

Please see my PDF.

I oppose the proposed Moorebank Waste Processing Project (Project Number 05 0157) at Lot 6 DP 1065574, Newbridge Road, Moorebank.

1. I oppose the building waste processing plant because the proposed development is far too close to existing and proposed residential homes. The proposed development is just 250 metres from the Georges Fair housing estate. Trucks using the proposed facility will travel even closer to residential homes. Trucks will likely short cut through Georges Fair, passing parks and local residents, using roads not designed for massive trucks.

2. I oppose the building waste processing plant because of the risks from asbestos and toxins. At the community consultation meeting held on 31/5/2011 at New Brighton Golf Club, the representatives of the developer refused to comment on whether asbestos would be processed at the facility and whether toxins would be released. There is a link between silica dust and lung cancer (`Occupational Exposure to Silica and Lung Cancer', Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers and Prevention Journal, Volume 19, 2010). There is no known cure for silicosis (`A Brief Review of Silicosis in the US', Environ Health Insights, Volume 4, East Carolina University, 2010). The developer plans to install sweepers "where trucks and people will travel" and that there are "unsealed areas" in the development. Their own documentation refers to "likely dust from the recycling facility" (pg 3, developer's information distributed on 31/5/2011 at New Brighton Golf Club). This is an unacceptable health risk for local residents.

3. I oppose the building waste processing plant because of the potential for flooding. The proposed development is in an area that floods. In the event of a flood, unsafe building materials and material stockpiles may cause an environmental disaster throughout Moorebank and the entire Georges River Basin.

4. I oppose the building waste processing plant because the NSW Government has indicated there will be "a return of local planning powers to local communities" (`NSW govt scraps 3A planning provision', SMH, 4/4/2011). The local community is opposed to this development. Councillors of the Liverpool City Council have voted unanimously against this development (Minutes, Liverpool City Council meeting, 15/6/2011).

5. I oppose the building waste processing plant because the proposed development is incompatible with the current and planned residential and recreational uses of the area. The proposed concrete processing facility is just 250 metres from the Georges Fair housing estate, with a high proportion of residents having young families. The area is zoned E2 Environmental Conservation. It should not be used for a concrete processing plant. In close proximity are schools, parklands, the Georges River itself, cycleways, a proposed waterside marina, a library and a golf club. The land is more suitable for recreational facilities or a reserve. Even the owners of the Benedict Recycling plant at Moorebank (which borders the proposed facility) have accepted that the area is no longer suitable for a building waste processing plant and have started to shut down their operations to create their own housing estate and marina.

6. I oppose the building waste processing plant because of increased traffic. The developer states the proposed facility will result in an extra 324 truck movements a day, which is "very low and will have no impact on the arterial road network" (developer's information distributed on 31/5/2011 at New Brighton Golf Club). Increased traffic will have a significant impact on arterial roads including Nuwarra Road, Newbridge Road and Governor Macquarie Drive. There is already significant traffic in the area which will be made worse by the `Intermodal', which will cause an extra 1.5 million truck movements in the first year. Truck movements will primarily be in peak hours, further impacting on already high congestion. The residents of Moorebank and other areas should not experience any additional noise, pollution and congestion from this proposed facility, given the likelihood of the `Intermodal'.

7. I oppose the building waste processing plant because of the negative impact on land values. Residents of the Moorebank precinct in particular have spent significant amounts of money on land and homes. The proposed development will have a severe impact on land values and residents will not be compensated.

8. I oppose the building waste processing plant because there was a lack of community consultation at a meeting held by representatives of the developers on 31/5/2011. The organisers did not notify a significant number of local residents and future residents about the meeting. The organisers refused to answer questions from local residents on health risks. The organisers did not allow time to note down and respond to residents' concerns.

9. I oppose the building waste processing plant because it is dangerous to residents for a concrete processing plant to be located in this area of metropolitan Sydney. There are pre-existing waste processing plants operated by Benedict Recycling and Smorgan Steel Recycling at Chipping Norton. Benedict Recycling is planning to build another plant at Heathcote. There is no need for so many waste processing plants in such close proximity to each other.
As a local community member, I OPPOSE the building waste processing plant. I call on councillors, the NSW Parliament, the Minister for Planning, the Planning Assessment Commission, the NSW Department of Planning and Infrastructure and the Premier of NSW to REJECT this proposal.

Submission OJECTION - Moorebank Waste Facility - MP 05_0157

As I am a resident of the Georges Fair estate Moorebank, I am strongly Opposed & Object to the Moorebank Waste Facility - MP 05_0157.

Georges Fair Estate

When this facility was submitted to the Department & Planning in 2006, the area that the facility was to be established in was adjacent to the Boral brick pit site & the Benedict recycling centre, NO RESIDENTIAL at that time was established nearby. Since then the new Georges Fair estate has been built directly alongside the proposed area, which houses thousands of families with young children which would be greatly affected by this absurd application
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Truck Movements

To say that 350 additional truck movements a day would not greatly affect residence is again totally absurd & flawed. Any additional truck movement will affect residents of the new Georges Fair estate and the existing housing opposite the proposed entry to the Facility. Any additional noise that would affect residents in any way what so ever should immediately make this proposal unacceptable and be cancelled
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Noise & Pollution

To say that this Facility will not emit noise or dust is again wrong. On quite days the residence of George Fair can hear the motor boats going up and down the river, if that occurs now then how would we not hear a concrete crushing facility crushing tonnes on tonnes of concrete on a daily basis which will be of closer proximity than the river ?.
Secondly any additional dust pollution will affect children and adults with Asthma. In the proposal I noticed a graph and mention to a low rate of N/E winds occurring over the Georges Fair estate, this again is wrong & flawed. I have a house close by to the proposed facility & constantly receive winds on a daily basis from the N/E directly from & across the proposed facilities that will constantly affect my property with dust & noise pollution. The already existing Benedict Sands site emits noise and smells that are sometimes overwhelming, indicating that the same situation will occur as the proposed facility will be recycling the same products.

Environment & Location

The proposed facility is to be situated on prime water front land between a nature reserve, a golf course & a new residential estate, this location is an absolute absurd location to place a recycling facility given its proposed location.
Recycling Facilities should be located in rural areas or industrial estates on the fringe of major cities away from residential locations due to dust, truck movements, pollution, noise and environmental/residential effects & impacts.

Access Road & Access times

I strongly oppose the location stated for an access point on Brick Makers road to this Facility. Benedict sand has been operating with an access point off Newbridge road for many years, which has kept truck movements away from residential areas minimising the effects of noise. If this absurd proposal goes ahead which I am totally opposed to, the access point should not be allowed to operate from the Brick Makers road which is adjacent to thousands of expensive residents and family properties.
The proposal stated operating times of 7am till 6pm 6 days a week, these operating times will greatly affect local residence and children sleeping in the early hours of the morning. Saturday operation times should not be allowed at all as this will have enormous effects on local residence in the proposed area.

Conclusion

The Georges Fair estate and adjoining residential area is of a quiet nature, and lends itself to a retreat bush environment type area encapsulated by a quite golf link and river ravine. It would be totally criminal to allow this proposal to proceed in the proposed area and would greatly affect not only the residence of Georges Fair and surrounding area, but the environmental areas that surround the proposed land site.

I oppose the proposed Moorebank Waste Processing Project (Project Number 05 0157) at Lot 6 DP 1065574, Newbridge Road, Moorebank.
1. I oppose the building waste processing plant because the proposed development is far too close to existing and proposed residential homes. The proposed development is just 250 metres from the Georges Fair housing estate. Trucks using the proposed facility will travel even closer to residential homes. Trucks will likely short cut through Georges Fair, passing parks and local residents, using roads not designed for massive trucks.
2. I oppose the building waste processing plant because of the risks from asbestos and toxins. At the community consultation meeting held on 31/5/2011 at New Brighton Golf Club, the representatives of the developer refused to comment on whether asbestos would be processed at the facility and whether toxins would be released. There is a link between silica dust and lung cancer (`Occupational Exposure to Silica and Lung Cancer', Cancer Epidemiolo-gy, Biomarkers and Prevention Journal, Volume 19, 2010). There is no known cure for silicosis (`A Brief Review of Silicosis in the US', Environ Health Insights, Volume 4, East Carolina University, 2010). The developer plans to in-stall sweepers "where trucks and people will travel" and that there are "unsealed areas" in the development. Their own documentation refers to "likely dust from the recycling facility" (pg.3, developer's information distributed on 31/5/2011 at New Brighton Golf Club). This is an unacceptable health risk for local residents.
3. I oppose the building waste processing plant because of the potential for flooding. The proposed development is in an area that floods. In the event of a flood, unsafe building materials and material stockpiles may cause an environmental disaster throughout Moorebank and the entire Georges River Basin.
4. I oppose the building waste processing plant because the NSW Government has indicated there will be "a return of local planning powers to local communities" (`NSW govt scraps 3A planning provision', SMH, 4/4/2011). The local community is opposed to this development. Councillors of the Liverpool City Council have voted unanimously against this development (Minutes, Liverpool City Council meeting, 15/6/2011).
5. I oppose the building waste processing plant because the proposed development is incompatible with the cur-rent and planned residential and recreational uses of the area. The proposed concrete processing facility is just 250 metres from the Georges Fair housing estate, with a high proportion of residents having young families. The area is zoned E2 Environmental Conservation. It should not be used for a concrete processing plant. In close proximity are schools, parklands, the Georges River itself, cycle ways, a proposed waterside marina, a library and a golf club. The land is more suitable for recreational facilities or a reserve. Even the owners of the Benedict Recycling plant at Moorebank (which borders the proposed facility) have accepted that the area is no longer suitable for a building waste processing plant and have started to shut down their operations to create their own housing estate and marina.
6. I oppose the building waste processing plant because of increased traffic. The developer states the proposed facility will result in an extra 324 truck movements a day, which is "very low and will have no impact on the arterial road network" (developer's information distributed on 31/5/2011 at New Brighton Golf Club). Increased traffic will have a significant impact on arterial roads including Nuwarra Road, Newbridge Road and Governor Macquarie Drive. There is already significant traffic in the area which will be made worse by the `Intermodal', which will cause an extra 1.5 million truck movements in the first year. Truck movements will primarily be in peak hours, further im-pacting on already high congestion. The residents of Moorebank and other areas should not experience any addi-tional noise, pollution and congestion from this proposed facility, given the likelihood of the `Intermodal'.
7. I oppose the building waste processing plant because of the negative impact on land values. Residents of the Moorebank precinct in particular have spent significant amounts of money on land and homes. The proposed de-velopment will have a severe impact on land values and residents will not be compensated.
8. I oppose the building waste processing plant because there was a lack of community consultation at a meeting held by representatives of the developers on 31/5/2011. The organisers did not notify a significant number of local residents and future residents about the meeting. The organisers refused to answer questions from local residents on health risks. The organisers did not allow time to note down and respond to residents' concerns.
9. I oppose the building waste processing plant because it is dangerous to residents for a concrete processing plant to be located in this area of metropolitan Sydney. There are pre-existing waste processing plants operated by Benedict Recycling and Smorgan Steel Recycling at Chipping Norton. Benedict Recycling is planning to build another plant at Heathcote. There is no need for so many waste processing plants in such close proximity to each other.
As a local community member, I OPPOSE the building waste processing plant. I call on councillors, the NSW Parliament, the Minister for Planning, the Planning Assessment Commission, the NSW Department of Planning and Infrastructure and the Premier of NSW to REJECT this proposal.