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Chris Minns announcement

Chris Minns announcement in Turrella Reserve

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An unbroken corridor of Wolli Creek bushland is one big step closer to completion. Premier Chris Minns, local ministers, WCPS members and a media scrum met at Turrella Reserve this morning to announce the great news that almost 5 hectares of bush have been added to the Wolli Creek Regional Park. Chris Minns said that this ribbon of green space is incredibly important and that WCPS have been tireless in campaigning for decades to protect and preserve it.

Local members Sophie Cotsis, Steve Kamper, Penny Sharpe and Jo Haylen are big supporters of the Regional Park and were all in attendance this morning to show their enthusiasm. Sophie Cotsis was beaming and saying “What a great day!” and Steve Kamper said “This regional park is a national treasure. We said we’d do it and we are so proud to be here.” Penny Sharpe said, “Peter and the WCPS have fought off development from the beginning to save this valley.”

If you want to read more, here’s the govt press release:
https://www.nsw.gov.au/media-releases/wolli-creek-regional-park-is-expanded

Chris Minns announcement

Wolli Creek National Park gains 4.7 hectares

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Almost five hectares of parklands has been added to the Wolli Creek regional national park – “a patch of green ribbon” which runs through dense suburbs in Sydney’s south – in the past year.

The Minns government added the additional 4.7 hectares after a $13m election commitment to complete the park, which borders Wolli Creek and was first promised by the Carr government in 1998.

The full story in the Guardian here.

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/mar/08/wolli-creek-national-park-gains-additional-47-hectares-of-land-to-complete-green-ribbon?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other&fbclid=IwAR1PDKqVCdIwf56y5lu0r0if0LZK2z9GNAnH4UYCgOjcGn9fEZedJOKvtUI

Labor commits to regional park

Wolli Creek Regional Park to be completed at last!

The State budget delivered on 19 September 2023 included a commitment of $13 million for the completion of the Wolli Creek Regional Park.

“We are overjoyed by the announcement”, said Peter Stevens, Vice-President of the Wolli Creek Preservation Society and long-time campaigner for the Park. “We have been campaigning to ensure the protection of the Wolli Creek bushland for four decades and have had to fight off two motorway proposals and numerous other threats.

“Over those decades we have seen many State Governments come and go and heard many verbal commitments to the formation and completion of the Regional Park. Now for the first time we have verbal undertakings backed up by a significant commitment of funds.

“There can be no doubt about the public backing for protecting the bushland: our campaign against destruction of one part of the bushland gathered over 5,000 signatures. And there is no question that a lot of people have devoted a lot of time to bring about the current outcome.

“It has taken the efforts of the many past and present WCPS committee members, WCPS members, and wider circles across the Sydney Basin and beyond to gain the recognition of the significance of this substantial area of inner-urban bushland that it warrants. A protected future should now be assured for this natural gem of Sydney’s inner south-west.

“We are thankful to have had the support of local MLAs Chris Minns, Sophie Cotsis, Steve Kamper, Jo Haylen, and Jenny Leong, MLCs Penny Sharpe and Sue Higginson, and the backing of the Councils of Bayside, Canterbury-Bankstown City, Georges River, Inner West, and the City of Sydney, all of which have residents that engage with the Wolli bushland. Numerous community organisations and individuals have lent their support. There are too many to list but we thank them all.

“We are keen now to see the timetable for completion and the details of how the funds will be used. People who want to stay in touch with how things develop can visit the newly re-vamped website of the Wolli Creek Preservation Society at www.wollicreek.org.au.

“You can bet that we will be celebrating at our Annual Dinner on October 19th https://wollicreek.org.au/event/wcps-annual-dinner/.”

Media contact

Peter Stevens

0412 596 874

info@wollicreek.org.au

Complete the Park!

We’re opening (yet another) campaign to have the Wolli Creek Regional Park completed after decades of delays. There’s an Open Letter you can sign here and for background you’ll find a copy of the letter here with links to further information, situation details, and some useful diagrams. Please do sign this Open Letter: the 5,000 signatures we got on our petition about the Odour Control Unit clearly played a significant role in it being put on hold (and probably abandoned) and we’d dearly like to exceed that number.