A park. For cars.
This weeks Letters to the Editor, the Sydney Morning Herald, following the Sydney Morning Herald's story on the plans for a "village precinct" to be built next to the new Sydney Football Stadium, highlights community concerns over further loss of our public parklands.
Read the transcripts of the letters below.
It looks like the green space of Moore Park outside our expensive new stadium will again be decimated and perhaps a few more mature fig trees will disappear under cover of darkness (“More park, no on-grass parking for SFS village precinct”, September 20, 2021). Why build a two-storey 300 space carpark above ground on the green parkland, when the government could build the entire 1500 space carpark underground? Don’t think about cost. Gladys can afford the better option. After all, she rebuilt a perfectly good stadium behind the car park. Evelyn Palmer, Vaucluse
The COVID-19 crisis has shown that Centennial Parklands has insufficient green space to not meet the needs of Sydney’s current inner-city population, let alone plans for future growth. Rob Stokes’ latest scheme to intensify use for more retail, multistorey car parking and sporting facilities for Sydney Football Stadium ignores the fact that people just want quiet and relaxing green space. While other cities around the world such as Seoul and Barcelona are pulling down freeways and buildings to create more green space for their residents, our decision-makers are hardscaping and putting development, noise and events into our precious green parklands to benefit commercial interests. Maria Bradley, Coogee
