Community submissions on The Greater Sydney Parklands Draft Legislation.
As well as the group response from the Alliance for Public Parklands posted on 28 October 2021, the Alliance members and others have also expressed concerns in their responses to the Draft Exposure Bill.
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“The Alliance members believe that the best way to translate the Minister’s worthy principles into reality is to entrust each of our parks to its own discrete Trust.”
Alliance for Public Parklands
“This Bill permits commercial interests to take over space that is the people’s space and charge the people to enter that which has been their own space… this Bill has one villainous feature – it reduces the area that has been the public’s own free space.”
Blacktown & District Environment Group Inc
“These proposed changes are far from trivial or merely clarifications, as the Minister has tried to argue in correspondence to FOCP. These amendments threaten Callan Park with commercialisation and privatisation and strip away key protections that have safeguarded Callan Park for 20 years.”
Friends of Callan Park
“We are vehemently opposed to the granting of long leases that alienate the parklands, their heritage and environmental values. We would submit that land in the Centennial Parklands precinct, no matter its current form, is valuable greenspace, rare by the very fact that it is located in a busy metropolitan setting. It must be preserved for the people of NSW… ”
Centennial Park Residents Association
“The Bill does not reflect the communities’ views enunciated in White Paper – Parklands for People. The numbers of amendments required for this Bill are so numerous that it needs fundamental reworking.”
Friends of Fernhill and Mulgoa Valley Inc.
“The intention (and the power) to commercialise is embedded throughout the Exposure Bill. We urge the Minister to stringently review the proposed powers of the GSP Board as described within the draft legislation.”
North Parramatta Residents Action Group Inc
