I write to register my strenuous objection to the wilful destruction of Willow Grove and St George Terrace in Parramatta. Yet again, the NSW Government is demonstrating its abject disregard for out state's heritage. Please reverse this decision before it is too late.

I beg of you, please do continue to destroy the cultural heritage of Parramatta. To lose Willow Grove and St Georges Terrace would be a gross tragedy, and a real loss to future generations.

It's criminal that the Royal Oak Hotel was destroyed recently. Please don't destroy anything else.

Having real, physical reminders of our past that we can see and touch and experience is so important. I've worked in the Parramatta CBD for nearly a decade, and I've seen it grow to become more and more just like another city of bland skyscrapers, with no history or character. These houses have that. A museum can be built anywhere. It can be built around it, or near it, or in a different part of Parramatta. To suggest it's heritage or a museum is deceitful false dichotomy.

The government finally listened to people and decided not to move the Powerhouse from its current location Please listen to the people again here.

I, and a great many other people (people that cannot and should not be ignored), object in the strongest possible terms to the demolition Willow Grove and St Georges Terrace at Parramatta.

Dear Marcus,

I object and oppose the Powerhouse Parramatta project because.. it will destroy the most significant values and ruin the history and historical fabric of Parramatta that the people of Parramatta hold so dear to with it’s most heartfelt love for its historical significance. In addition to that if the Powerhouse to Parramatta move is approved; it will invite criminal property developers...: especially from the Chinese Communist Party creating the most ugly high-rise apartments with prolonged consequences with the Parramatta river when in heavy rainfalls will have prolonged flooding that will be absolutely disastrous, not just that, once the Willow Grove and St. George’s Terraces are gone...: people and future NSW Governments will say it was the most biggest human error mistake and ill and poor misguided planning with the most serious ramifications as a tragic disgraceful travesty that will seriously stain the image of Parramatta. So please keep the Powerhouse Museum in Ultimo as it will keep its historical significance for future generations.

All the very heartfelt best wishes for the future and God Bless!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!...

Mr. Arthur Theodoropoulos

I object to the Powerhouse Parramatta project because these buildings are an intrinsic part of the history of Parramatta. They are much loved by the community.

Why is it necessary to destroy HISTORY to make way for development.

Here is a wonderful opportunity for the State Government to enhance our STATE history and keep the buildings but develop a cultural centre of enormous significance at the Fleet Street Heritage Precinct.

Once these buildings are demolished they are gone for good. The like of them will never be built again.

I wanted to write to you to detail my objection to the destruction to this heritage listed buildings that are part of Australian history.

Hello

Please find attached Parramatta Powerhouse EIS Submission.

I do not require that my name be withheld.

Kind regards

Julie Owens
Federal Member for Parramatta
1/25 Smith Street, Parramatta (enter off Macquarie St)
Ph 02 9689 1455

Dear Marcus,

I object to the Powerhouse Parramatta project because…

Willow Grove and St Georges Terrace are one of a kind in the Parramatta CBD and their loss will have a significant impact on the community’s connection with the heritage. I have a familial connection to Parramatta all the way back to 1810s. I love to check on Willow Grove and appreciate the variety of buildings. Demolishing that will render Parramatta undesirable places to visit for me to my visitors.

There is a simple solution. A three point plan that others have outlined recently.

* Keep the Powerhouse Museum at Ultimo
* Create a brilliant Museum and cultural destination at historic Cumberland Hospital Precinct in North Parramatta - the space is there, just need to add tram line and you’re doing it right for all.
* Save historic Willow Grove and St Georges Terraces, and realise the existing Parramatta Council vision for a public square along the river that will not crowd the area.

My main concern is that Parramatta is not equipped to deal with more visits, especially those school buses, etc. Ugh.

Please do the right thing for us all.

Thank you,
Darlene Thornton
(NSW 2258)

I declare that I have not made any reportable political donations.

I object in the strongest possible way to the proposal to redevelop Willow Grove and other adjoining properties for the development of the Powerhouse Parramatta project.

It would be so wrong to take the existing Powerhouse Museum out of Ultimo, and relocate to the Willow Grove site. Willow Grove itself and the St. Georges Terrace are great examples of early Australian architecture. They are more than worthy of retaining. How can you even consider demolishing them??? And to build a so called "Museum" when these buildings are almost 'museums' themselves!!!!

We have lost so many of our heritage buildings - it would be criminal to lose these. The surroundings and gardens, where existing, should be retained also.

By what I have read, there would not be enough space in the new "museum" to accommodate all the wonderful items that are at Ultimo anyway. So its a pretty daft idea in the first place.

I would like to see the Powerhouse Museum stay in Ultimo, and all the buildings retained.

A new "Museum", or Gallery, or Exhibiiion Space could be created at Parramatta, but please, do not destroy Willow Grove or the St. Georges Terrace to do so, or any other building of historical value for that matter.

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I'm writing in regards
to the destruction of Willow Grove and St Georges Terrace and would like to register my disapproval of such a decision.


It's such a shame that the State Government consistently has no respect for the architectural heritage of the city, and an embarrassment
that the city's cultural facets go unrecognised and overlooked by those elected to office. Any serious world city admires and respects their history and their architecture, valuing it for its beauty, its history and how it reflects the personality of its people.


It's especially sad that this is happening in Parramatta, an area with a more recent history of urbanisation and as such already lacking
in the Italianate and Terrace architecture seen in the inner city that so epitomises Sydney, not to mention the fact that
it seems to be mixed messaging from what the State Government outlined in 2016 as a desire to plan for more medium density buildings such as Terraces.