Gabriel Lucas
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Gabriel Lucas
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FAIRLIGHT
,
New South Wales
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I am a student at Balgowlah Boys Campus and I am very worried about the impacts of 6 years of construction opposite the school.
Please ensure that:
• We can get safely to school throughout the construction and operation of the tunnel.
• The heavy truck movements are paused at the beginning and end of each school day
• Provisions are made to exams to happen off-site
• The oval is kept open with safe access. We really need this space for sport and recess. The new link road will make the oval very unpleasant even if it can be used. Please move the link road several meters west and maintain a line of trees to help reduce noise and pollution.
• The air quality and noise levels are monitored all through the project and action is taken to mitigate any problems with noise and dust pollution.
I think you should look at relocating the whole school during the construction works. This would allow a new campus to be built as the existing buildings are old and too small.
The new public open space must include really good facilities for the students of Balgowlah Boys. There should also be an amazing network of cycle paths as a result of the project.
It would be much better to NOT build this new motorway and instead consider a metro line, trackless trams, amazing bike lane and more express buses. Even when I am old enough to drive, I want to have other options for getting around Sydney. Driving is stressful, polluting, socially isolating, dangerous to pedestrians and cyclists, expensive and unhealthy. It is time to move Sydney forward from car dependency.
Please ensure that:
• We can get safely to school throughout the construction and operation of the tunnel.
• The heavy truck movements are paused at the beginning and end of each school day
• Provisions are made to exams to happen off-site
• The oval is kept open with safe access. We really need this space for sport and recess. The new link road will make the oval very unpleasant even if it can be used. Please move the link road several meters west and maintain a line of trees to help reduce noise and pollution.
• The air quality and noise levels are monitored all through the project and action is taken to mitigate any problems with noise and dust pollution.
I think you should look at relocating the whole school during the construction works. This would allow a new campus to be built as the existing buildings are old and too small.
The new public open space must include really good facilities for the students of Balgowlah Boys. There should also be an amazing network of cycle paths as a result of the project.
It would be much better to NOT build this new motorway and instead consider a metro line, trackless trams, amazing bike lane and more express buses. Even when I am old enough to drive, I want to have other options for getting around Sydney. Driving is stressful, polluting, socially isolating, dangerous to pedestrians and cyclists, expensive and unhealthy. It is time to move Sydney forward from car dependency.
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SEAFORTH
,
New South Wales
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Please find attached my submission for the Beaches Link EIS - please do not publish my name or address details
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Australian Conservation Foundation Community Northern Beaches
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Australian Conservation Foundation Community Northern Beaches
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FRESHWATER
,
New South Wales
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Please see attached PDF document.
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shelagh kemm
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shelagh kemm
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ARTARMON
,
New South Wales
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Director - Transport Assessment, Planning and Assessment
NSW Department of Planning, Industry and Environment
Locked Bag 5022
PARRAMATTA NSW 2124
RE: Northern Beaches Link and Gore Hill Freeway Connection
Environmental Impact Statement
I write to register my strong objection to this whole project.
I have lived in Artarmon for nearly 40 years and have seen the density, reduction of pedestrian deaths and traffic management arrangements change over those years.
WHERE 1. is the present need demonstrated in the light of the changed life and work styles engendered by the recent Covid19 pandemic?
2. are the results of changed/recent provisions of other means of transport, buses, light rail etc, to move workers & leisure seekers from their base & back?
3. are the effects of increased cycling & walking for exercise, also the provision of cycleways on traffic flow?
4. are the up to date cost benefits to the community & the contribution on The Greater Sydney Harbour City area & the Metropolis of Three Cities.
So insular are we??
Which leads me to the Environmental Changes which will result from the Freeway connection to the Northern Beaches Link.
I have walked both Flat Rock Gully & Artarmon reserve for all of those forty years, on the way to work, for exercise and leisure. Have been involved in the revegetation and rejuvenation of Flatrock Gully & Artarmon Reserve. Willoughby Council will produce photographs of the betterment of those green spaces and records of flora & fauna changes over the years. Many, including me have contributed to recording flowers and trees, lyrebirds and bees, frogs and ghekos, common and endangered species, and can then hand this heritage knowledge on to our children and grandchildren, not to mention overseas and interstate visitors and new residents in the district.
1. WHY IS THIS WILFUL DESTRUCTION OF HABITAT and DIVERSITY OF WILDLIFE BEING PROPOSED TO DESTROY 6+ MORE HECTARES OF BUSHLAND?
2. DIGGING UP WHAT WAS STATE OF THE ART IN THE NINETIES, BECAUSE IT IS REGENERATED!!?? THE DESIGN BRIEF, WAS TO CONTAIN THE TIP !!
3. 240 TREES TO GO , WHAT HAPPENED TO PAYING ATTENTION TO LOCAL WILLOUGHBY GUIDELINES IN ONE OF THE FIRST GREEN SUBURBS ON THE NORTH SHORE OF SYDNEY.
4. WILDLIFE CORRIDORS ARE TO BE BROKEN, SET UP SPECIFICALLY AND TO ENCOURAGE DIVERSITY AND THEY ARE WORKING VIZ THE LYREBIRD.
5. GROUND WATER DISTURBANCE POTENTIALLY HARMS THIS TWO LEGGED OBSERVER AND OTHERS WORKING TO REHABILITATE THE BUSH.
6. I CAN FIND LITTLE IN THE EIS THAT records the present state OR PROTECTS THE BUSHLAND OR ANSWERS THESE CONCERNS
We are but the present responsible holders of this jewel in the Southern Ocean.
It is time we stopped disturbing and destroying it’s unique diversity and did more to conserve the flora and fauna species we have hiding under the canopy.
ON ALL THE ABOVE GROUNDS I OBJECT VERY STRONGLY
Yours
Shelagh Kemm
6 COONEY ROAD, ARTARMON
NSW Department of Planning, Industry and Environment
Locked Bag 5022
PARRAMATTA NSW 2124
RE: Northern Beaches Link and Gore Hill Freeway Connection
Environmental Impact Statement
I write to register my strong objection to this whole project.
I have lived in Artarmon for nearly 40 years and have seen the density, reduction of pedestrian deaths and traffic management arrangements change over those years.
WHERE 1. is the present need demonstrated in the light of the changed life and work styles engendered by the recent Covid19 pandemic?
2. are the results of changed/recent provisions of other means of transport, buses, light rail etc, to move workers & leisure seekers from their base & back?
3. are the effects of increased cycling & walking for exercise, also the provision of cycleways on traffic flow?
4. are the up to date cost benefits to the community & the contribution on The Greater Sydney Harbour City area & the Metropolis of Three Cities.
So insular are we??
Which leads me to the Environmental Changes which will result from the Freeway connection to the Northern Beaches Link.
I have walked both Flat Rock Gully & Artarmon reserve for all of those forty years, on the way to work, for exercise and leisure. Have been involved in the revegetation and rejuvenation of Flatrock Gully & Artarmon Reserve. Willoughby Council will produce photographs of the betterment of those green spaces and records of flora & fauna changes over the years. Many, including me have contributed to recording flowers and trees, lyrebirds and bees, frogs and ghekos, common and endangered species, and can then hand this heritage knowledge on to our children and grandchildren, not to mention overseas and interstate visitors and new residents in the district.
1. WHY IS THIS WILFUL DESTRUCTION OF HABITAT and DIVERSITY OF WILDLIFE BEING PROPOSED TO DESTROY 6+ MORE HECTARES OF BUSHLAND?
2. DIGGING UP WHAT WAS STATE OF THE ART IN THE NINETIES, BECAUSE IT IS REGENERATED!!?? THE DESIGN BRIEF, WAS TO CONTAIN THE TIP !!
3. 240 TREES TO GO , WHAT HAPPENED TO PAYING ATTENTION TO LOCAL WILLOUGHBY GUIDELINES IN ONE OF THE FIRST GREEN SUBURBS ON THE NORTH SHORE OF SYDNEY.
4. WILDLIFE CORRIDORS ARE TO BE BROKEN, SET UP SPECIFICALLY AND TO ENCOURAGE DIVERSITY AND THEY ARE WORKING VIZ THE LYREBIRD.
5. GROUND WATER DISTURBANCE POTENTIALLY HARMS THIS TWO LEGGED OBSERVER AND OTHERS WORKING TO REHABILITATE THE BUSH.
6. I CAN FIND LITTLE IN THE EIS THAT records the present state OR PROTECTS THE BUSHLAND OR ANSWERS THESE CONCERNS
We are but the present responsible holders of this jewel in the Southern Ocean.
It is time we stopped disturbing and destroying it’s unique diversity and did more to conserve the flora and fauna species we have hiding under the canopy.
ON ALL THE ABOVE GROUNDS I OBJECT VERY STRONGLY
Yours
Shelagh Kemm
6 COONEY ROAD, ARTARMON
Susan Byrne
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Susan Byrne
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MANLY VALE
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New South Wales
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The environmental impacts for the Northern Beaches Link will be too great. Destruction of the Burnt Bridge Creek, and impacts on water quality for the Manly Warringah War Memorial Park. Great losses also to our local Flora and Fauna.
The RTA site at Kitchener Street North Balgowlah is contaminated, being an old Gas Works site with cyanide, chromium, lead, zinc and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons. Reference to this can be found at Councils Manly Lagoon State of Catchment Report.
There is also a recorded Aboriginal site that has not been included nor assessed in your documents, this is along Burnt Bridge Creek close to Kitchener Street.
The RTA site at Kitchener Street North Balgowlah is contaminated, being an old Gas Works site with cyanide, chromium, lead, zinc and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons. Reference to this can be found at Councils Manly Lagoon State of Catchment Report.
There is also a recorded Aboriginal site that has not been included nor assessed in your documents, this is along Burnt Bridge Creek close to Kitchener Street.