Better Planning Network Facebook page

Dear Better Planning Network

Being relatively new to Facebook, I made an exciting discovery tonight (for me anyway) which I thought important to share with you.  I apologise in advance if you already know this (you probably do).  At the risk of embarrassing myself, here it is:

As you know, the Better Planning Network has a Facebook page:

http://www.facebook.com/BetterPlanningNetwork

Liking the page means that you receive all our posts on your ‘wall’

(that’s the private part of your Facebook account which nobody sees except you).  It does not mean that your friends see these posts as well.

To ensure that your friends see our posts, you need to click the ‘share’ button located at the bottom of our posts.  ‘Liking’ a post is great but ‘sharing’ it actually moves it from your private wall to your public timeline, where your friends can see it.

So, please consider:

LIKING our page http://www.facebook.com/BetterPlanningNetwork (if you haven’t already)

LIKING our posts; and

SHARING our posts with your friends if you think that they would interest them.

You could also post on your own account recommending that your friends like the BPN Facebook page.

Thank you very much for helping us to spread the word and engage the broader community on the NSW Planning Review.

Kind Regards

Corinne Fisher

Better Planning Network

Ph: 0421 831 889

Meeting Monday 19 November 2012

 AT LAST!!!!! 2012 FINAL MEETING FOR THE YEAR

The final meeting  for 2012 of the North Richmond and Districts Community Action Association will be held Monday 19^th November 2012 at 7:15pm  in the North Richmond Community Centre, William Street, North Richmond.

Your Committee has been active with submissions to RMS and the Department of Heritage on your behalf come and hear the results.

There is an exhibition by RMS in Windsor on 24/11/2012( details in the Gazette) on the plans for” Option 1” their preferred option for the new bridge in Windsor that will destroy and damage some of our earliest historical buildings not to mention the businesses there. I urge you to attend the exhibition and then go and see for yourselves how Thompson Square will be destroyed and then make an informed submission. One must remember that it will only be a 2 lane bridge with no accommodation for the increase in traffic that will come from the proposed developments in Glossodia and that there is land suitable for subdivision at Wilberforce and other parts west of the river. We deserve better than another second rate solution.

Citizens Against Windsor Bridge (CAWB) has delivered a petition with over 12,000 signatures to State Parliament against this option , unfortunately NONE of the 3 members of State Parliament whose electorates are in the Hawkesbury would come out to receive it so it was left to members of the Opposition to do so.

The first meeting for 2013 will be on Monday January  21/1/2013 .

I look forward to seeing as many as possible at the meeting on Monday 19/11/12, as usual there will be a raffle, a cuppa and bikkies and good company!!!

Colleen Turnbull

Secretary NRDCAA

Bells Line of Road Long Term Strategic Corridor Plan

The Australian and NSW governments have completed the Bells Line of Road Long Term Strategic Corridor Plan, available for your information at www.rms.nsw.gov.au/roadprojects. 

The plan recommends commencing the planning to reserve a road corridor for a future upgrade linking the Bells Line of Road near Kurrajong Heights with the Sydney motorway network. It also identifies the need for safety and traffic improvements for the existing route.

Thank you to the more than 1000 residents who shared their ideas and opinions.

What happens next?

In early 2013, Roads and Maritime Services will commence four reviews, as identified in the plan as:

1.   Identifying safety issues and prioritising preferred safety measures
2.  Assessing overtaking opportunities and prioritising identified improvements
3.  Evaluating intersections in relation to safety and performance and prioritising identified improvements
4.  Assessing local access arrangements in relation to safety and prioritising identified opportunities for improvements.

Click here to download the Community Update which provides an overview of the planning for the Bells Line of Road corridor.

For more information please email BellsLineofRoad@rms.nsw.gov.au, phone the project team on 1800 017 787 or write to Bells Line of Road, PO Box 973, Parramatta CBD NSW 2124.

2012 Council Election results

The Community have made a difference.

They have given our residents and ratepayers a chance to have their views heard in Council.

The voters have elected four independent Councillors, Paine, Porter,
Buckett-Lyons, Rasmussen, Calvert ALP, Williams Greens, McKay Liberal
Independent and five Liberals, Ford, Tree, Creed (Liberal staffer)
Reardon and Conolly (Liberal Staffer).

 

Meeting Monday 17 September 2012

The September meeting of the North Richmond and Districts Community Action Association will be held at:

North Richmond Community Centre,
William Street ,North Richmond
at 7:15pm
on 17 September, 2012

Matters for discussion will include:

The submission from the NRDCAA to the Heritage Department and the part that you can play in supporting the protection of “Yobarnie” and “Nevallan”.

The recent HCC election and the possible implications for the Hawkesbury and your lifestyle.

A raffle and a cuppa (with bikkies) as usual- not to mention great company!!

I look forward to seeing you there.

Please encourage your family and friends to get involved it is the only way that we can have the Hawkesbury that we want not what Macquarie Street ,Sydney and the developers want us to accept.

Colleen Turnbull

Secretary NRDCAA

Which candidates support 'No Development without Infrastructure?

Heritage Council of NSW - final decision

YOUR  URGENT ACTION REQUIRED!!!!!!!!

  

Dear Fellow Member of the NRDCAA and those who care for the Hawkesbury ,

The Heritage Council of NSW is about to make a final decision on the listing of “Yobarnie and Nevallen” Keyline Farms on the State Heritage Register. The Heritage Council has done much work since our original request for listing in February 2009 and now recommends that “Statutary listing at local and State level is appropriate”.  They also ask for letters of support or objections from the public (which includes Developers and Planners) by 24^th September 2012. The NUMBERS OF LETTERS RECEIVED IS IMPORTANT and demonstrates local interest in conserving the landscape and evidence of the “Keyline” system. The NRDCAA committee will  make a formal submission in line with and summarising the previous comprehensive one.

We ask members of the NRDCAA and those who care for the Hawkesbury to write a short letter supporting listing. Following is information and suggestions that you could use.

Please get your family and friends to write too- even if you write the letter for them . We have been working to preserve the Hawkesbury and this represents the possibility of some success.

Suggestions:

Your letter should:-

State your support for listing (as the history of a unique development will otherwise be lost to future generations.)

State your reason(s). This should be in line with one or more of the criteria used for assessment.

Here are 5 relevant criteria( others on the Heritage website).

Historical significance

Technical achievement

Research and educational value

Rarity

Improvement to steep land and poor soil.

Some suggestions that you might like to use in your letter:-

Australian agriculture was established in the Hawkesbury. P.A. Yeomans was the first to develop methods of improving productivity by a self-sustainable system of irrigation.

Yeoman’s technical skills enabled him to invent a system which conserved and efficiently used water, prevented erosion, fireproofed the land, increased soil depth and mitigated downstream flooding. It also sequestered carbon. This had never been done before.

The “Keyline” system has been adopted world- wide and is the basis for “Permaculture” . We have the original here at “Yobarnie” and “Nevallen” . They are available for education and research.

This system and the two properties are unique.

The system produces a sustainable landscape with increased production whereas normally steep land is hard to maintain and utilise.

The address for your letters/emails is:

Heritage Council of NSW

Locked Bag 5020

Parramatta NSW 2124

heritage@heritage.nsw.gov.au

Correspondence MUST reach the address BEFORE 24^TH SEPTEMBER 2012.

Regards,

Colleen Turnbull

Secretary  NRDCAA