I strongly object to the Powerhouse Parramatta project because.. we have lost so much of our heritage over the last 50 years
that we are running out of things to pass onto future generations. All these new glass and metal monstrosities that are
being built these days will not last long enough for future generations to see. We need our heritage buildings to tell the
story of Parramatta, the second settlement in the new colony. Willow Grove was once used as a hospital and many of
the old identities of Parramatta were born there.

Geoff Lee was interviewed on radio recently and stated that there were hundreds of buildings like Willow Grove
around so this one can go. None of the hundreds of buildings like Willow Grove are in Parramatta so aren't we
entitled to keep ours.

There is another place in Parramatta that would be more suited to the Powerhouse and that is the old golf
course and the museum would be seen from the train as it goes towards the mountains. Surely people are going to
want to visit it once they have seen it and wondered what it would be like. Tucked away behind the shopping centre,
which is the dead end of the centre, people will not know it is there.

I have lived in the Parramatta area for 72 years and research its history for the last 30 and am fascinated by the depth of it.
It is very disappointing when someone comes into our city and rubs out something so precious

I object to the Powerhouse Parramatta project because it’s ridiculous that the state and federal government doesn’t give a rat’s arse About Australia’s heritage, our animals and nature. It’s embarrassing and heartbreaking. I hate the leaders of this country.

I object to the Powerhouse Parramatta project because as it makes no sense to destroy two magnificent heritage buildings and build a truly repulsive building on the flood prone site. The NSW government is a disgrace and will be held accountable for this vandalism. There are sure to be plenty of other existing buildings to suit a proper second power house museum. Sydney has been incrementally destroyed by Baird and Berejiklian Greater Sydney Commission agendas which serve insane globalist aims and not those of the people

I object to the Powerhouse Parramatta project because.. I have lived in Parramatta for a great deal of my life and revel in observing and understanding the remains of our history to be found here. I have bought things from the st George's terrace and been in awe of the beauty of willowvale. I have taken my children to sunken gardens, crawled through the convict tunnels of Lennox bridge and when much younger walked the duplicate main Street that joined car parks behind the shops in church street. Do not let Parramatta lose any more of its links to our past.

I object to the Powerhouse Parramatta project because Willow Grove and St Georges Terrace are unique and highly important buildings in the Parramatta CBD and their loss would have a significant impact on the community's connection with heritage.

There is a very simple solution, which I implore Planning NSW and the NSW State government to implement immediately.

This three point plan involves:

1. Keep the Powerhouse Museum at Ultimo

2. Create a Museum and cultural destination on a more suitable site such as the historic Cumberland Hospital Precinct in North Parramatta.

3. Save historic Willow Grove & St Georges Terraces, and realise the existing Parramatta Council vision for a public square alongside the river which is a more practicable given the flood risk in this area.

This plan would also generate a lot of long term jobs not only in construction but also in all the professions related to museums, history, conservation and more.

This plan would also support domestic and international tourism.

Please note I have not made any reportable political donations.

I object to the Powerhouse Parramatta project because it is at the expense of part of our heritage. While it is admirable to be building a museum at Parramatta, it should include the historic Willow Grove and St George Terraces.

These historic buildings should not only be saved and preserved. If a museum is to be built in Parramatta, another location should be chosen and the area along the riverside become public space.

These buildings are museum pieces in themselves and our heritage cannot be replaced, once it has been destroyed. If the museum must be built in the chosen location, then these buildings should be 'exhibits' within the museum precinct.

We have lost so much of our heritage over the years. This is your opportunity to preserve our heritage in a unique way. Future generations will be able to experience and appreciate this genuine view into our past.

Please do not destroy Willow Grove and St George Terraces, they are too important to the culture and history of Parramatta.

I object to the Powerhouse Parramatta project because :

1. the site is inappropriate… too close to the embankment for heavy objects and no proper tests have measured the site/object ratio.

2. the site is too smaLL FOR the objects

3. the original decision to use the current powerhouse site was determined by the fact that the site itself - the built structure - would become a part of the museum collection (as in the case of the . Everleigh Art Space).

4. in heritage terms the term ‘what is of social value’ is applied when considering `the role of the present society to value and save the past, for the present and beyond.' Therefore - the powerhouse museum must remain inside the original power house as the site, the built environment structurally, plus the contents are all part of what we know as the powerhouse museum.

5. The final point I would like to raise is, in the mid nineteen eighties when the bicentennial authority began to consider the powerhouse site for a museum the demographics of the population were extremely different to the social demographics that exist in the neighbourhood today. In the year two thousand and twenty we almost total gentrification of the land space surrounding the museum with international award designed apartment buildings, blocks of cinemas, gentrified lane ways full of cafes and artists spaces and ultra modern gardens built over disused railway tracks - a la New work and aqua sports centres. I would imagine that the changed nature of the built environment has altered the statistics of the population by two hundred percent within the last decade. Or more. This is now a bright, enjoyable, new social hub housing the kind of citizens who I predict would value highly a museum like the powerhouse to exist in their vicinity.

Regarding the Parramatta museum: yes it also needs a grand museum/ arts centre. Parramatta urgently needs to throw off its mantle and become a vibrant, and exciting second city - sitting nearby another site called Sydney.

best

Margaret Helman
(deputy director of the NSW Bicentennial Authority of New South Wales - 1985-1987)

I object to the proposed Powerhouse Parramatta project because the winning proposal involves demolition of Willow Grove, its garden and St Georges Terrace.

Parramatta is a place of remarkable character and in recognition of this character the proposed museum would benefit from another siting or a serious attempt at adaptive reuse of the site.

Local architects with proven skills in sensitive design and adaptive reuse of heritage buildings should be given the opportunity to submit other options.

Development Controls appear to be somewhat ad hoc in parramatta and not based on design quality that recognises the city centre’s essential character.

Bigger is not better. Parramatta Town Hall and Anglican Cathedral have been rendered as toys in the absence of relative scale of current development.

The vertical explosion on the former David Jones site speaks of the future potential to render the riverside a "creek in a canyon”.

The Catholic Cathedral is diminished by the football arena, and local kids have lost their pool for many summers.

Give Parramatta’s heritage a chance to continue to be respected in this very important town centre. Don’t copy Sydney.

The Willow Grove Precinct offers a reprieve of calm and beauty in the midst of the development explosion that is occurring.

Don’t turn the river in to a gutter by erecting more buildings that do not offer relative scale.

Don’t let disinterested corporate money destroy what is here. Propose a desired future character and get interested local money on board.

Create a better River city and respect Parramatta’s precious character.

I would like to notify you of my objection to the Powerhouse Parramatta Development which involves the demolition of two heritage listed buildings in Parramatta (Willow Grove and St Georges Terrace).

I object to the Powerhouse Parramatta project because.I believe the two buildings you wish to teardown are an essential link to our heritage and therefore our sense of belonging to Parramatta.
I want to be able to show my grand children as I have my own children, the graceful architectural features, and scale of placing a building on land that we can walk around and admire.
I believe the Powerhouse museum should stay where it is in Ultimo. It is there for a reason , showcasing the industrial history of machines that built our city.
Please reconsider, once gone you can never replace Willowgrove. I do not have any faith in the building standards of modern buildings that the proposed building will last 10 years, let alone 100+.
I was a member of The Powerhouse and regularly took my sons to the delightful exhibits and sanctury it provided busy boys with enquiring minds.
I now want to avail my grandaughter the same experience. She will hear stories about her fathers favourite exhibits and activities.
This facility provides intergenerational connections to the Powerhouse and the comfort and wellbeing of the familar in a city that is constantly being demolished.