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OCU Petition 3,000

The petition launched on Jan 20 has moved steadily past 3,000 today. This is a good result, but we need an overwhelming one, so let’s keep at it.

OCU Campaign

Signatures at 2,600 on 2/2/21, as more organisations alert their members. Thanks this time to National Parks Association of NSW.

Public Meeting re Priority Precinct – Monday July 17, 7 pm, CECAL hall, Lewins St. opp. Earlwood Coles carpark

WCPS is holding a public meeting to air and share concerns about the Government’s Turrella/Bardwell Park/Earlwood Priority Precinct proposal.

7pm Mon 17 July 

at the CECAL (Canterbury Earlwood Caring Association Ltd.) hall in Lewins St. Earlwood, opposite the Earlwood COLES car park. For actions to take now see Actions to Take

Watch this space for an upcoming press release

and follow protectwollicreekvalley and earlwood2206 on Facebook for ongoing news and discussion.

Turrella/Bardwell Park/Earlwood declared a Priority Precinct

A June 1, 2017, a press release from the NSW Department of Planning and Environment identified  Turrella, Bardwell Park, and Earlwood as one of its 15 Priority Precincts for development.

See these links to the Department’s website for their opening statements on the 15 and the specifics of the covering our valley area:

 http://www.planning.nsw.gov.au/News/2017/New-priority-precincts

http://www.planning.nsw.gov.au/News/2017/~/media/C74CDF1A80FE45B38C5733D069EDB41D.ashx

This has major implications for the Wolli Creek Regional Park (WCRP), because the areas designated for dominating high-rise and major population increases cover almost the whole of the Park area as this Composite Precinct Map  shows

To get involved in the issue, email to info@wollicreek.org.au.

Press Release – ‘Western Gateway’ bushland: WCPS response to ALP’s move to have land transferred at Bexley North

In mid October 2016  the ALP announced it was intending to introduce legislation into the NSW Parliament to transfer land at Bexley North, currently still owned by the Roads and Maritime Service (RMS), to the NPWS, to add to the Wolli Creek Regional Park.

Here is a link to the ALP’s press release FOLEY Wolli Creek reserve

and here is a link to a press release in response, from WCPS  WCPS release

Wolli bushland still under threat from New M5/Westconnex

On Sept. 7 (National Threatened Species Day!) and Sept. 8 2016, the Critically Endangered Cooks River Castlereagh Ironbark Forest bushland at Beverly Grove, Kingsgrove in the upper Wolli creek Valley was substantially destroyed for the New M5.

Now, on top of that destruction, it has come to light that despite Roads Minister Duncan Gay’s assurances in his press release in June 2015 that the Wolli creek bushland would not be impacted by the New M5, the RMS owned bushland at Bexley North, where the Two Valley Trail starts is still being considered for “future transport needs”.

Read the Society’s press release for more info. Can’t trust Gay on Wolli bushland

New M5 EIS – submissions due Friday 29/1/16. Please make a submission

The WCPS  opposes the construction of the New M5/WestConnex.
We encourage everyone who cares about our environment, the health of many people in our population who will be affected by the emissions stacks, the enormous disruption to people’s lives, and the waste of  $18 billion+ of public money to make a submission too.
Below is a short form submission that you can use – you can use it as is, or adapt it to suit your own concerns.
You can either print out and mail the submission, or, go online and copy your words into the government’s website here:  http://majorprojects.planning.nsw.gov.au/index.pl?action=view_job&job_id=6788
You can make as many submissions as you like. The more the better – a lot of objections will be a real indicator of community discontent.
The deadline for submissions is Friday the 29th January so do please swing into action as soon as you can!
Let’s hope that together we can stop this tollroad. The community united has achieved this in the past.

To read the submission from WCPS see New M5 EIS WCPS submission

The M5 part of WestCONnex is in the pipeline!

Make a submission by Friday 31 July 2015, 5pm.
On 17 July 2015, the RMS  lodged a referral under the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation (EPBC) Act with the Australian Department of the Environment. The public has only 10 business days to read, digest and comment on this lengthy document. This is a very restrictive time frame which limits public responses.  Find the proposal (Ref. No.: 2015/7520) here.
Both Federal and State environmental legislation require the environmental impacts of developments to be considered as part of the approval/decision-making process. This referral – to assess the impact on “matters of national environmental significance” (ie endangered ecological communities and threatened species) – is the first step to getting the “New M5” built.
Wolli Creek Preservation Society (WCPS) is of the opinion that the content of the referral is inadequate and insufficient to justify the proposed destruction of the environment, or the waste of $15.4 billion of taxpayers’ money. We have prepared a submission asking the Federal Minister for the Environment to reject the M5 proposal and to call a public inquiry.
A short version of the WCPS submission is here for your use. Feel free to copy and paste any of the content into an email, add your own comments, and email it by Friday 31 July 2015, 5pm, to epbc.referrals@environment.gov.au.
The full version of the WCPS submission contains a detailed examination of the impacts on the endangered ecological communities and threatened species, and other concerns. Also attached is a fact sheet from the Queensland Environmental Defenders Office about making submissions under the EPBC Act.
Any public comment sends a message to both levels of Government that the impacts identified in this referral are unacceptable. We need many submissions!
Help stop the “New M5”! Make your voice heard!

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