Peter Nixon
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Peter Nixon
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Michael Paton
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Michael Paton
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Sydney
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New South Wales
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Re: SSD 13_6123 USYD Campus Improvement Program 2014-2020 for Camperdown-Darlington campus
Dear Mr McManus,
As a resident of Darlington/Chippendale for over two decades and a former tenured academic at the University, I wish to put in writing my strong objections to the above-mentioned plan for the following reasons:
1. The University has made insufficient effort to consult with the local community as per the Director General's Requirements.
2. The height and bulk of the the proposed development are much to great for the low rise heritage conservation residential precinct that is Darlington/Chippendale.
3. A number of proposed buildings (eg where the University regiment now sits and the Darlington Eucalypt Grove) will overlook residential buildings. Moreover the 24/7 noise from plant equipment with the proposed new buildings will create a very negative effect on residents' amenity.
4. The terraces from 86-130 Darlington Road are A rated as 'highly intact' by the National Trust. The proposal to infill their backyards with 3 storey extensions will degrade their heritage value.
5. The plan to increase through the greater amount of floor space the student population from its present 49,500 to 60,000 is fundamentally flawed. The local infrastructure does not cope with present student numbers as it is. Moreover, as the Teaching Quality Fellow in the Faculty of Economics & Business for over 16 years, I argue that such an increase in student numbers can only have a detrimental effect on the education process.
In conclusion, this massive over-development project should not go ahead in its present form. It would seem to be primarily designed to gain greater University income from international students, not to improve the general student experience. I say this because I have had experience of the powers that be at the University putting the business of education before educational quality. I attach a paper that I had published on this in 2007.
yours truly
Michael
Michael Paton BSc(Ed) BA(hons) PhD
Dear Mr McManus,
As a resident of Darlington/Chippendale for over two decades and a former tenured academic at the University, I wish to put in writing my strong objections to the above-mentioned plan for the following reasons:
1. The University has made insufficient effort to consult with the local community as per the Director General's Requirements.
2. The height and bulk of the the proposed development are much to great for the low rise heritage conservation residential precinct that is Darlington/Chippendale.
3. A number of proposed buildings (eg where the University regiment now sits and the Darlington Eucalypt Grove) will overlook residential buildings. Moreover the 24/7 noise from plant equipment with the proposed new buildings will create a very negative effect on residents' amenity.
4. The terraces from 86-130 Darlington Road are A rated as 'highly intact' by the National Trust. The proposal to infill their backyards with 3 storey extensions will degrade their heritage value.
5. The plan to increase through the greater amount of floor space the student population from its present 49,500 to 60,000 is fundamentally flawed. The local infrastructure does not cope with present student numbers as it is. Moreover, as the Teaching Quality Fellow in the Faculty of Economics & Business for over 16 years, I argue that such an increase in student numbers can only have a detrimental effect on the education process.
In conclusion, this massive over-development project should not go ahead in its present form. It would seem to be primarily designed to gain greater University income from international students, not to improve the general student experience. I say this because I have had experience of the powers that be at the University putting the business of education before educational quality. I attach a paper that I had published on this in 2007.
yours truly
Michael
Michael Paton BSc(Ed) BA(hons) PhD
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Anna Caetano
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Anna Caetano
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Kylie Boyd
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Kylie Boyd
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John Berry
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John Berry
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Darlington
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New South Wales
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Please find attached the second stage of my submission for SSD 6123.