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NEW LAMBTON
,
New South Wales
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I’m extremely concerned about the impact that this major proposal will have on the New Lambton community. In particular, the local high school and the green space available for students, staff and the community
As an educator and local resident I am particularly concerned about the impact on the staff who will be unable to deliver the NSW curriculum/syllabus due to the lack of access to the ovals. Currently the 1200 students are using the ovals for PDHPE, all lunch and recess breaks, special days like colour runs, cross country and importantly, it is the school’s emergency evacuation point. By limiting access to this area you are increasing the burden on teachers workload due to staff having to coordinate classes, do extra duties off site, transporting sporting equipment – which increases paper work and administrative tasks. Teachers are already overloaded and struggling with burn out daily. Adding to their workload is overly concerning. Regarding the students having vital green space removed, I am concerned about the impacts on mental and physical health in a technology loaded society. Despite Newcastle Basketball reporting that the students will benefit from access to this stadium this is not needed as the school already have 2 covered basketball courts and 2x ½ basketball courts. The building of the project on the green space will result in all current options of sport played on grass being removed from the students.
Furthermore, the congested traffic presently when the football and major events are on result in the area becoming congested for long periods of time impacting travel times and ability to drive around the area freely. I am alarmed by the numbers stated in the EIS that 22,000 people will access this facility per week – so roughly 3000 a day. This will see traffic chaos around this area, not only in the immediate surrounding areas, but also in the adjoining suburbs as traffic navigates it way to the proposed stadium.
My biggest concern is the proposed expenditure for the full build. I was shocked to read the budget report and see the cost of $90 million when the grant given by the state government was $25 million. $4.1 of this which has already been spent on consultation. There are many other more pressing societal concerns in NSW eg the state of public health, public education, housing that these funds could be better spent on.
As a local resident I have not been consulted about this project. I have learnt about it from the local media reports only. For such a significant project concerning so many people I am frustrated the local community were ignored during the planning phase of this project.
As a final point we can not ignore that green space, once lost, is gone forever. My family and I currently like to walk our dogs on these ovals. Living in the inner city, access to green spaces like this are vital and I oppose any development on this site.
As an educator and local resident I am particularly concerned about the impact on the staff who will be unable to deliver the NSW curriculum/syllabus due to the lack of access to the ovals. Currently the 1200 students are using the ovals for PDHPE, all lunch and recess breaks, special days like colour runs, cross country and importantly, it is the school’s emergency evacuation point. By limiting access to this area you are increasing the burden on teachers workload due to staff having to coordinate classes, do extra duties off site, transporting sporting equipment – which increases paper work and administrative tasks. Teachers are already overloaded and struggling with burn out daily. Adding to their workload is overly concerning. Regarding the students having vital green space removed, I am concerned about the impacts on mental and physical health in a technology loaded society. Despite Newcastle Basketball reporting that the students will benefit from access to this stadium this is not needed as the school already have 2 covered basketball courts and 2x ½ basketball courts. The building of the project on the green space will result in all current options of sport played on grass being removed from the students.
Furthermore, the congested traffic presently when the football and major events are on result in the area becoming congested for long periods of time impacting travel times and ability to drive around the area freely. I am alarmed by the numbers stated in the EIS that 22,000 people will access this facility per week – so roughly 3000 a day. This will see traffic chaos around this area, not only in the immediate surrounding areas, but also in the adjoining suburbs as traffic navigates it way to the proposed stadium.
My biggest concern is the proposed expenditure for the full build. I was shocked to read the budget report and see the cost of $90 million when the grant given by the state government was $25 million. $4.1 of this which has already been spent on consultation. There are many other more pressing societal concerns in NSW eg the state of public health, public education, housing that these funds could be better spent on.
As a local resident I have not been consulted about this project. I have learnt about it from the local media reports only. For such a significant project concerning so many people I am frustrated the local community were ignored during the planning phase of this project.
As a final point we can not ignore that green space, once lost, is gone forever. My family and I currently like to walk our dogs on these ovals. Living in the inner city, access to green spaces like this are vital and I oppose any development on this site.
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NEW LAMBTON
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New South Wales
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I live across the road from this new Development, on the corner of Henderson St & Monash Rd, and will be directly impacted by this monstrosity.
1/ Traffic Chaos - Turton Rd is already bumper to bumper every day, all daytime and evening hours. The extra traffic using, entering and exiting Turton Rd will become unmanageable with people choosing to try and avoid this chaos by taking local suburban roads, e.g. Monash Rd, Young Rd, Orlando Rd and Wallarah Rd. These roads were not built to take this high demand traffic use.
2/ Entering and exiting the Development - there appears to be one way in and one way out via Turton Rd. I have addressed the traffic chaos in point one. However, there is speculation that there may be an exit point built between the fence lines of Lambton High School and Arthur Edden Oval onto Womboin Rd. Womboin Rd is a small suburban road, not built to take on the departure of large vehicles and numerous cars. The land is narrow and has beautiful old gum tree's that are home to native wildlife and birds, including an owl family. Removal of these trees would be devastating to these inhabitants.
3/ Parking - Mc Donald Jones Stadium and the Newcastle International Hockey stadium host events all year round. The parking in our local streets during a Newcastle Knights Rugby League game, a Newcastle Jets Soccer game, a large fixture at the Hockey Centre, or, a major event at the Stadium, e.g. Elton John, Paul McCartney etc already creates illegal parking in our small suburban streets with people blocking driveways and parking too close to the corners. The no. of car spaces allocated for this new development will not cater to the no. of people that will use this development, leaving the patrons to also join the overcrowded parking on our streets.
4/ Flooding - I was impacted by the 2007 "Pasha Bulka" Storm with my car written off and two feet of water through my home. The greenspace around my home was a huge reason why the water levels did not get any higher than what they were. This Development will see the loss of all this greenspace, putting myself, my pets, my home and my belongings at risk.
5/ Developing Wallarah and Blackley Ovals - these parks are used by several sporting clubs and families constantly. They are also used by several species of parrots, herons, plovers and ducks, nesting here year after year. Loss of these ovals would be detrimental to the physical and mental health of all that use them.
6/ Lambton High School - these 2 ovals are the only expansive green space the school has. The ovals are used during every break in class with children out playing games. The High School also uses these ovals for their emergency evacuations. There would be no place for the children to play, or a safe area for the children to evacuate too if these ovals are developed.
7a/ Emergency Vehicles - Fire and Rescue NSW, and, Lambton Fire Station have a central hub on the corner of Young Rd and Norah Rd. The vehicles often use Turton Rd to respond to an emergency. With extra traffic, delays in arriving at these emergencies could ensue.
b/ Emergency vehicles responding to an incident at the new Development, or the Football Stadium, or the Hockey Centre could be impacted by the traffic chaos, parking and single entry/exit point into and caused by the new Development.
8/ Lighting - the external lighting on this development may impact the mental health of residents as it would be on every night.
1/ Traffic Chaos - Turton Rd is already bumper to bumper every day, all daytime and evening hours. The extra traffic using, entering and exiting Turton Rd will become unmanageable with people choosing to try and avoid this chaos by taking local suburban roads, e.g. Monash Rd, Young Rd, Orlando Rd and Wallarah Rd. These roads were not built to take this high demand traffic use.
2/ Entering and exiting the Development - there appears to be one way in and one way out via Turton Rd. I have addressed the traffic chaos in point one. However, there is speculation that there may be an exit point built between the fence lines of Lambton High School and Arthur Edden Oval onto Womboin Rd. Womboin Rd is a small suburban road, not built to take on the departure of large vehicles and numerous cars. The land is narrow and has beautiful old gum tree's that are home to native wildlife and birds, including an owl family. Removal of these trees would be devastating to these inhabitants.
3/ Parking - Mc Donald Jones Stadium and the Newcastle International Hockey stadium host events all year round. The parking in our local streets during a Newcastle Knights Rugby League game, a Newcastle Jets Soccer game, a large fixture at the Hockey Centre, or, a major event at the Stadium, e.g. Elton John, Paul McCartney etc already creates illegal parking in our small suburban streets with people blocking driveways and parking too close to the corners. The no. of car spaces allocated for this new development will not cater to the no. of people that will use this development, leaving the patrons to also join the overcrowded parking on our streets.
4/ Flooding - I was impacted by the 2007 "Pasha Bulka" Storm with my car written off and two feet of water through my home. The greenspace around my home was a huge reason why the water levels did not get any higher than what they were. This Development will see the loss of all this greenspace, putting myself, my pets, my home and my belongings at risk.
5/ Developing Wallarah and Blackley Ovals - these parks are used by several sporting clubs and families constantly. They are also used by several species of parrots, herons, plovers and ducks, nesting here year after year. Loss of these ovals would be detrimental to the physical and mental health of all that use them.
6/ Lambton High School - these 2 ovals are the only expansive green space the school has. The ovals are used during every break in class with children out playing games. The High School also uses these ovals for their emergency evacuations. There would be no place for the children to play, or a safe area for the children to evacuate too if these ovals are developed.
7a/ Emergency Vehicles - Fire and Rescue NSW, and, Lambton Fire Station have a central hub on the corner of Young Rd and Norah Rd. The vehicles often use Turton Rd to respond to an emergency. With extra traffic, delays in arriving at these emergencies could ensue.
b/ Emergency vehicles responding to an incident at the new Development, or the Football Stadium, or the Hockey Centre could be impacted by the traffic chaos, parking and single entry/exit point into and caused by the new Development.
8/ Lighting - the external lighting on this development may impact the mental health of residents as it would be on every night.
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Adamstown
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New South Wales
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I am writing to object to this proposal. All my reasons are related to the site chosen for the development. A much better site would be within the Hunter park sporting precinct being proposed by the NSW State government.
Please note my concerns:
Loss of greenspace for sporting groups, Lambton high and the local community
Sporting groups
• information has been inaccurately reported that these ovals are underutilized. The Newcastle council sports plan that states this, was written in 2020 during Covid when sports were not being played. This information is incorrect
• it has been said these grounds have poor lighting and amenities. Significant money was invested into these ovals 7 years ago by Newcastle football and there are at least 6 working floodlights and near new amenities. This amenity block houses one of the only female friendly changerooms at Newcastle sports grounds
• both cricket and soccer are played on these ovals all year round every weekend. Where will these games be reassigned to? At the moment the other nearby ovals of Novocastrian park and Regent st park get reallocated to Wallarah and Blackley during times of washout as these ovals have superior drainage
Lambton high
• as a mother whose children went to Lambton HS I am aware of the use these ovals get from the 1200 enrolled students for PDHPE, a place for lunch and recess breaks, special event days like Colour runs and Cross country and the ovals are the schools emergency evacuation point. Pg 56 of the Community engagement report says the high school will have “significant access to the HISC… to support the delivery of curriculum. Lambton HS will also be able to access nearby sporting fields. I question how the curriculum, which includes throwing events (javelin discuss), multiple football events (soccer, AFL, touch, grid iron) and t-ball, soft ball can be accommodated in an indoor sports centre? I am also disappointed by the blaze’ “they can walk to other ovals” idea as this will eat into the children’s lesson time, will require a lot of extra organization for already stretched teachers and put children at risk as they will need to cross roads. Currently the students walk out a back gate onto the ovals during lunch and recess breaks. They will lose this luxury and require 2 teachers to walk them to an oval further away – will this happen if the teachers are feeling stressed and time poor?
Local community
• I drive past the ovals daily and have started to notice other community members walking dogs, flying kites, playing frisbee, kids running around freely. Is it ok to remove a free public green space and replace it with a user pays huge box? Access to green space is important for mental health and wellbeing.
Traffic congestion and parking concerns
Traffic
• As a regular commuter in this area I am very aware of the daily traffic congestion on Turton rd and the narrow residential side streets. I am very worried about the left turn in and left turn out of the complex on Turton rd. This is going to cause traffic mayhem as people attempt to enter and exit the stadium. There are traffic lights on either side of the proposed entry ways which will see traffic queuing to get in and out of the stadium. The EIS mentions the peak times for basketball use will be 4pm-8pm weekdays where they expect 500 visitors per hour – this coincides with people using this busy road to commute home. The traffic assessment done has not taken this into account as the numbers are much lower.
• I am concerned that the data provided in the Traffic intersection report is inaccurate as the cameras were erected during a known weather event that saw 77m of rain fall – people were being made aware of a severe weather warning as the cameras were being erected. The rain meant all games of soccer were cancelled that weekend, the Knights had their smallest crowd of only 9000 (compared to an average 16,000), people were advised to stay home so of course the numbers were low.
There were multiple inaccuracies in the report pg 8 see below:
• Turton Road North RT: Queue in right turn cannot be verified due to camera coverage limitations
▪ Turton Road South: Queue in through turn cannot be verified due to limitations of camera set-up
▪ Young Road West: The queues could not be verified due to camera setup angle camera set-up. Turton Road / Lambton Road / Bridges Road
▪ Lambton Road East: The right turn queues could not be verified due to camera setup angle camera
Parking
Parking in this area is always busy on days team sports are on the oval, when there are events at McDonald Jones stadium and when hockey is on. The streets around the ovals – Gloucester, Rex, Duke, Marina, Henderson and Hitchcock are narrow streets that, when cars are parked on either side of the road become one way. These streets all run off Monash rd. For basketball patrons coming from the North, West and East they will not be able to turn right into the stadium so will likely go to the streets around Monash rd and park and enter the stadium via the footbridge. When cars who have entered from the south go to depart, they can only turn to the north so will weave back through all of these streets.
There are only 220 car parking spots yet the operational report tells us there are expected to be
• 500-800 in attendance every week between March – September at Waratah league games
• 1000-1700 in attendance every 3rd week (16 per annum) April- August NBL1 games
• This is on top of the 22.000 attendees spread over the week year round
Where will they park? The event management plan suggests there are 900 available spots at McDonald Jones stadium as an overflow however, this fails to take into the planned rezoning of this carpark into E2 commercial centre with buildings up to 50m tall as part of the Broadmeadow place strategy – see rezoning of stadium forecourt. https://shared-drupal-s3fs.s3.ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com/master-test/fapub_pdf/Explanation+of+Intended+Effect+(rezoning+plan).pdf
Budget report
I was very concerned to read the cost of the full build is more than $90 million dollars. This is a lot of money, but more concerning is the fact they don’t have anywhere near that amount. Where will another $60 million come from? What vital services – hospitals, police, ambos could be using this money to help thousands of people? How can it be considered reasonable to spend this kind of money on 5,500 basketball players? It seems very unreasonable to me and as a tax payer not something I support.
Newcastle basketball should have used their $30 million to build 6-8 courts. They could have allowed children to keep playing in other stadiums as all sports do. The entertainment centre rebuild included in the Broadmeadow place strategy will easily have space for crowds to watch a basketball match. They have over capitalized by trying to ask for too much. Unfortunately, this, and their complete lack of care or consultation with residents and other users of the ovals has been to their detriment. Local media have been covering the distress of residents for over 6 months. I have signed a petition that has over 1500 signatures. People do not want this here for these reasons and many others not mentioned including, lighting concerns, visual impact, displacement of wildlife.
Please consider rejecting this proposal in this location. The detrimental effect it will have on so many people is greater than the reward it will provide to a minority community of basketball patrons
Please note my concerns:
Loss of greenspace for sporting groups, Lambton high and the local community
Sporting groups
• information has been inaccurately reported that these ovals are underutilized. The Newcastle council sports plan that states this, was written in 2020 during Covid when sports were not being played. This information is incorrect
• it has been said these grounds have poor lighting and amenities. Significant money was invested into these ovals 7 years ago by Newcastle football and there are at least 6 working floodlights and near new amenities. This amenity block houses one of the only female friendly changerooms at Newcastle sports grounds
• both cricket and soccer are played on these ovals all year round every weekend. Where will these games be reassigned to? At the moment the other nearby ovals of Novocastrian park and Regent st park get reallocated to Wallarah and Blackley during times of washout as these ovals have superior drainage
Lambton high
• as a mother whose children went to Lambton HS I am aware of the use these ovals get from the 1200 enrolled students for PDHPE, a place for lunch and recess breaks, special event days like Colour runs and Cross country and the ovals are the schools emergency evacuation point. Pg 56 of the Community engagement report says the high school will have “significant access to the HISC… to support the delivery of curriculum. Lambton HS will also be able to access nearby sporting fields. I question how the curriculum, which includes throwing events (javelin discuss), multiple football events (soccer, AFL, touch, grid iron) and t-ball, soft ball can be accommodated in an indoor sports centre? I am also disappointed by the blaze’ “they can walk to other ovals” idea as this will eat into the children’s lesson time, will require a lot of extra organization for already stretched teachers and put children at risk as they will need to cross roads. Currently the students walk out a back gate onto the ovals during lunch and recess breaks. They will lose this luxury and require 2 teachers to walk them to an oval further away – will this happen if the teachers are feeling stressed and time poor?
Local community
• I drive past the ovals daily and have started to notice other community members walking dogs, flying kites, playing frisbee, kids running around freely. Is it ok to remove a free public green space and replace it with a user pays huge box? Access to green space is important for mental health and wellbeing.
Traffic congestion and parking concerns
Traffic
• As a regular commuter in this area I am very aware of the daily traffic congestion on Turton rd and the narrow residential side streets. I am very worried about the left turn in and left turn out of the complex on Turton rd. This is going to cause traffic mayhem as people attempt to enter and exit the stadium. There are traffic lights on either side of the proposed entry ways which will see traffic queuing to get in and out of the stadium. The EIS mentions the peak times for basketball use will be 4pm-8pm weekdays where they expect 500 visitors per hour – this coincides with people using this busy road to commute home. The traffic assessment done has not taken this into account as the numbers are much lower.
• I am concerned that the data provided in the Traffic intersection report is inaccurate as the cameras were erected during a known weather event that saw 77m of rain fall – people were being made aware of a severe weather warning as the cameras were being erected. The rain meant all games of soccer were cancelled that weekend, the Knights had their smallest crowd of only 9000 (compared to an average 16,000), people were advised to stay home so of course the numbers were low.
There were multiple inaccuracies in the report pg 8 see below:
• Turton Road North RT: Queue in right turn cannot be verified due to camera coverage limitations
▪ Turton Road South: Queue in through turn cannot be verified due to limitations of camera set-up
▪ Young Road West: The queues could not be verified due to camera setup angle camera set-up. Turton Road / Lambton Road / Bridges Road
▪ Lambton Road East: The right turn queues could not be verified due to camera setup angle camera
Parking
Parking in this area is always busy on days team sports are on the oval, when there are events at McDonald Jones stadium and when hockey is on. The streets around the ovals – Gloucester, Rex, Duke, Marina, Henderson and Hitchcock are narrow streets that, when cars are parked on either side of the road become one way. These streets all run off Monash rd. For basketball patrons coming from the North, West and East they will not be able to turn right into the stadium so will likely go to the streets around Monash rd and park and enter the stadium via the footbridge. When cars who have entered from the south go to depart, they can only turn to the north so will weave back through all of these streets.
There are only 220 car parking spots yet the operational report tells us there are expected to be
• 500-800 in attendance every week between March – September at Waratah league games
• 1000-1700 in attendance every 3rd week (16 per annum) April- August NBL1 games
• This is on top of the 22.000 attendees spread over the week year round
Where will they park? The event management plan suggests there are 900 available spots at McDonald Jones stadium as an overflow however, this fails to take into the planned rezoning of this carpark into E2 commercial centre with buildings up to 50m tall as part of the Broadmeadow place strategy – see rezoning of stadium forecourt. https://shared-drupal-s3fs.s3.ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com/master-test/fapub_pdf/Explanation+of+Intended+Effect+(rezoning+plan).pdf
Budget report
I was very concerned to read the cost of the full build is more than $90 million dollars. This is a lot of money, but more concerning is the fact they don’t have anywhere near that amount. Where will another $60 million come from? What vital services – hospitals, police, ambos could be using this money to help thousands of people? How can it be considered reasonable to spend this kind of money on 5,500 basketball players? It seems very unreasonable to me and as a tax payer not something I support.
Newcastle basketball should have used their $30 million to build 6-8 courts. They could have allowed children to keep playing in other stadiums as all sports do. The entertainment centre rebuild included in the Broadmeadow place strategy will easily have space for crowds to watch a basketball match. They have over capitalized by trying to ask for too much. Unfortunately, this, and their complete lack of care or consultation with residents and other users of the ovals has been to their detriment. Local media have been covering the distress of residents for over 6 months. I have signed a petition that has over 1500 signatures. People do not want this here for these reasons and many others not mentioned including, lighting concerns, visual impact, displacement of wildlife.
Please consider rejecting this proposal in this location. The detrimental effect it will have on so many people is greater than the reward it will provide to a minority community of basketball patrons
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Ross Ferguson
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Ross Ferguson
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FLETCHER
,
New South Wales
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Newcastle needs this development. This project has enormous potential to promote a number of sports and a healthy lifestyle in Newcastle. The current site is an appropriate solution and will utilize a centrally located area that is poorly utilized. I support this development!
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Kotara
,
New South Wales
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Some of the impacts on Lambton High school will be:
1. No more use or access to the oval for school activities such as:
• Classes and lessons for subjects such as Personal Development Health & Physical Education (PDHPE), Lifestyle and Recreation (SLR)
• School sport – cricket, soccer, AFL, rugby league, cross country running
• Emergency evacuation area
• Lunch time and recess free play
• Activities and fun days such as the Colour Run
2. Additional work for teachers that want or need to use an oval or open space as they will need to:
• Get special permission to take students off school grounds
• Do additional risk planning
• Have two staff to take students off school grounds
• Provide additional support for students with mobility challenges
3. Additional costs for traveling to alternative venues
4. Shorter times for learning or sports
5. Fewer free options for school sport
6. Less physical activity for students at lunch and recess
7. Less space for students at lunch and recess
8. Not able to kick any balls during lunch and recess
9. Reduced fitness for students
10. Increase traffic around the school at key times
11. Noise and vibrations
1. No more use or access to the oval for school activities such as:
• Classes and lessons for subjects such as Personal Development Health & Physical Education (PDHPE), Lifestyle and Recreation (SLR)
• School sport – cricket, soccer, AFL, rugby league, cross country running
• Emergency evacuation area
• Lunch time and recess free play
• Activities and fun days such as the Colour Run
2. Additional work for teachers that want or need to use an oval or open space as they will need to:
• Get special permission to take students off school grounds
• Do additional risk planning
• Have two staff to take students off school grounds
• Provide additional support for students with mobility challenges
3. Additional costs for traveling to alternative venues
4. Shorter times for learning or sports
5. Fewer free options for school sport
6. Less physical activity for students at lunch and recess
7. Less space for students at lunch and recess
8. Not able to kick any balls during lunch and recess
9. Reduced fitness for students
10. Increase traffic around the school at key times
11. Noise and vibrations
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ISLINGTON
,
New South Wales
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What impact will the Hunter Indoor Sports Complex have on Lambton High School?
Lambton High School has had a formal agreement to use Wallarah and Blackley ovals for teaching, sport and play since the school first opened. It has paid fees to Council to use these ovals during this time. If the proposal to build a basketball and indoor sports centre on the two ovals goes ahead, the School will lose all access to the ovals and the greenspace will be gone.
The P&C is encouraging people to make submissions as this is an issue that will impact current students and staff and the school community for generations to come. In the view of the P&C some of the impacts on the school might be:
1. No more use or access to the oval for school activities such as:
• Classes and lessons for subjects such as Personal Development Health & Physical Education (PDHPE), Lifestyle and Recreation (SLR)
• School sport – cricket, soccer, AFL, rugby league, cross country running
• Emergency evacuation area
• Lunch time and recess free play
• Activities and fun days such as the Colour Run
2. Additional work for teachers that want or need to use an oval or open space as they will need to:
• Get special permission to take students off school grounds
• Do additional risk planning to take students off the school grounds and to cross roads
• Have two staff to take students off school grounds
• Provide additional support for students with mobility challenges
3. Additional costs for traveling to alternative venues
4. Shorter times for learning or sports as time will need to be spent traveling 10min walk to and from the other local ovals, equals 20min less for each period.
5. Fewer free options for school sport
6. Less physical activity for students at lunch and recess
7. Less space for students at lunch and recess, potentially more conflict and less play options
8. Not able to kick any balls during lunch and recess
9. Reduced fitness for students
10. Increase traffic around the school at key times, in Young Road, Turton Road and other back streets
11. Noise and vibrations from construction over many years (due to multi-stage development)
Below we have outlined some tips to make sure your submission effective and have created a step by step guide for how to make a submission.
Lambton High School has had a formal agreement to use Wallarah and Blackley ovals for teaching, sport and play since the school first opened. It has paid fees to Council to use these ovals during this time. If the proposal to build a basketball and indoor sports centre on the two ovals goes ahead, the School will lose all access to the ovals and the greenspace will be gone.
The P&C is encouraging people to make submissions as this is an issue that will impact current students and staff and the school community for generations to come. In the view of the P&C some of the impacts on the school might be:
1. No more use or access to the oval for school activities such as:
• Classes and lessons for subjects such as Personal Development Health & Physical Education (PDHPE), Lifestyle and Recreation (SLR)
• School sport – cricket, soccer, AFL, rugby league, cross country running
• Emergency evacuation area
• Lunch time and recess free play
• Activities and fun days such as the Colour Run
2. Additional work for teachers that want or need to use an oval or open space as they will need to:
• Get special permission to take students off school grounds
• Do additional risk planning to take students off the school grounds and to cross roads
• Have two staff to take students off school grounds
• Provide additional support for students with mobility challenges
3. Additional costs for traveling to alternative venues
4. Shorter times for learning or sports as time will need to be spent traveling 10min walk to and from the other local ovals, equals 20min less for each period.
5. Fewer free options for school sport
6. Less physical activity for students at lunch and recess
7. Less space for students at lunch and recess, potentially more conflict and less play options
8. Not able to kick any balls during lunch and recess
9. Reduced fitness for students
10. Increase traffic around the school at key times, in Young Road, Turton Road and other back streets
11. Noise and vibrations from construction over many years (due to multi-stage development)
Below we have outlined some tips to make sure your submission effective and have created a step by step guide for how to make a submission.
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ADAMSTOWN
,
New South Wales
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As a passionate member of Newcastle Basketball, I support the Hunter Indoor Sports Centre proposal and I believe that our region desperately needs a new indoor sports facility like the one proposed, not just for Basketball, but for all of our community to enjoy for many generations to come.
Thanks for your consideration,
Newcastle Basketball Member / Supporter
Thanks for your consideration,
Newcastle Basketball Member / Supporter