Newsletter 28 – Cycling

  • Posted by IanMuttonAdmin
  • On July 1, 2021
  • Bradfield Park, Cycleway, Harbour Bridge
Sydney Harbour Bridge: Cycle usage – so you think cycling is increasing?  Don’t bet on it!   Between 2007 and 11 Sept 2020, Transport for NSW used a bicycle counter on the Harbour Bridge cycleway to collect data on the number of cyclists. The counter measures the cycle trips per day. As a cyclist usually […]
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Newsletter 27 – Open Letter to Our State Member – Saving Bradfield Park and the street of Kirribilli

  • Posted by IanMuttonAdmin
  • On June 14, 2021
  • Bradfield Park, Cycleway, Harbour Bridge
6 June 2021 Ms F Wilson, MP Member for North Shore   Dear Ms Wilson, Re: Sydney Harbour Bridge Cycleway access and Bike route to Mosman   The community was advised yesterday that Transport for NSW will place on public exhibition this Monday two schemes for a bike ramp in Milsons Point. As our state […]
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Newsletter 26 – Parks

  • Posted by IanMuttonAdmin
  • On May 21, 2021
  • Bradfield Park, Cycleway, Harbour Bridge
State Government’s war on North Sydney’s open green spaces. The State Government is: moving to massively increase the number of apartments in North Sydney and, at the same time plundering of our parks and open green spaces – immediately it’s seizing our parklands to build the Western Harbour and Beaches tunnels 3 hectares permanently, a […]
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Newsletter 25 – Bradfield Park

  • Posted by IanMuttonAdmin
  • On May 5, 2021
  • Bradfield Park, Cycleway, Harbour Bridge
First the State Government “repurposed” Cammeray Golf Course for the Beaches’ Tunnel – now it’s Bradfield Park (Milsons Point) for a cycleway – what next? Remember Bradfield Park? It was given to North Sydney’s residents as part compensation for the loss resulting from the building of the Sydney Harbour Bridge. (SHB) Well, now the Government […]
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Newsletter 22 – A Manicured White Elephant

  • Posted by IanMuttonAdmin
  • On September 25, 2020
  • HMAS Platypus
HMAS Platypus – the site: of the Neutral Bay Gas works until 1932 a torpedo factory during the war and a submarine base until 1967. In 2005 the Commonwealth gave custody of the Platypus site to the Sydney Harbour Trust “for the purpose of rehabilitating it as a park”. Rehabilitation has cost $80m What do […]
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Newsletter 19 – Luna Park Lavender Green Development Application

  • Posted by IanMuttonAdmin
  • On April 21, 2020
  • Lavender Bay Lavender Green
Key points Residents are NOT “killjoys”, residents support Luna Park Lavender Green is NOT part of the historic Luna Park as claimed in the DA. Lavender Green was added in 1997 Lavender Green is located in one of the most densely populated areas of Sydney North Sydney is acutely short of green space with more […]
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Newsletter 17 – Parks and Sports Fields

  • Posted by IanMuttonAdmin
  • On March 25, 2020
  • Parks
Are our Liberal Governments hell bent on the reindustrialisation of North Sydney and the destruction of parklands? Two years ago, the State Government announced the dedication of $290m to gain more green and open spaces. Our Premier, Gladys Berejiklian, said that “people want more than jobs and infrastructure, they want livability”. Was she serious? Or […]
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North Shore Community Newsletter 7 – Parks and Sports Fields

  • Posted by Ian Mutton
  • On June 26, 2018
  • Parks & Sports Fields
We have an emerging problem in a sea of inertia. An emerging problem, no, a rapidly growing problem in a political sea of inaction – it’s  just criminal. Sporting fields – ratio of hectares to every 1,000 people • NSROC (councils on the North Shore) 0.40 • Northern Beaches 0.44 • North Sydney 0.14 (the […]
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