Article Topic: President

June has been a busy month for correspondence, and I now make available the following items: 1. President’s Report for May 2014, 2. President’s Report for June 2014, 3. Letter to the Sydney Superyacht Marina, 4. Letter to the Minister for Family & Community Services, and 5. The Dictionary of Sydney

Public housing, development of the Glebe Society logo and vale Hilary Larkum

Since the SMH published its story about an unsolicited proposal to develop Wentworth Park I have had many emails from members . Today I gave the following to a Fairfax journalist. As a community we insist upon a strategic approach to large developments of public space. The Bays Precinct Task Force considered community recommendations that […]

The Glebe Society made a thorough submission to the NSW Parliament Inquiry into Social and Affordable Housing, in which (among other matters) we noted that NSW faces a crisis in public housing, urgently needs a coherent housing strategy that sets targets and provide incentives to public and private developers, must establish improved governance based upon […]

This month The Glebe Society has sent a submission to Council re the adaptive reuse of the Rozelle Tram Depot.  We continue to have concerns about traffic management, the impact on nearby retail centres, and the inadequate size of the community space in the tramsheds.  You can view the Submission by clicking here.

As I told you recently, we have as a Society committed to our Strategy 2013-2019: Engaging Glebe. The strategy is here on our website. So we could get our strategy right and all commit to it, we held workshops and discussions and broadcast drafts. We put a lot of effort and time into getting it […]

Engaging Glebe: Strategy 2013-2019 Every five years or so we conduct a major review of our strategy. During 2013 we held meetings, published drafts and gained members’ commitment to our strategy for 2013-2019. It will guide our activity, though of course we expect short term changes.  We implement our strategy chiefly through our subcommittees. Each […]

Oh frabjous joy, calloo callay; Glebe Island Bridge is here to stay. “And so this is Christmas and what have you done?” We have been very busy and our campaigns are listed on the website. In particular I mention our work with the Better Planning Network to ameliorate excesses in the proposed planning legislation and […]

I recently wrote to the Transport Roads and Maritime Services (used to be the RTA) with our submission on the future of the Glebe Island Bridge.  Click here to see our submission, and a subsequent letter to the Minister for Heritage when she announced that it would be placed on the State Heritage Register. The final version […]

“The Bays convenor is working on The Glebe Society’s official submission to RMS on its proposal to demolish the Glebe Island Bridge. The following is my early draft to help in that task. It is bare and polemical. It will not be our official submission. However as you prepare your individual submission you may find […]

Thus far in September I have: tabled the President’s Report to the Management Committee. It talks about a number of important issues including The Glebe Estate; established a Membership Project to continually improve the membership experience; put the 2013/2014 Terms of Reference for Environment, Heritage, Planning, Transport and Traffic on this page for members’ feedback.

AGM The AGM was successfully completed on August 25, 2013. Reports from subcommittees had been published and I gave the President’s annual report. Officers were elected by the AGM which welcomed Jan Wilson as Vice President; Di Gray as Secretary; Tess Nicholls as Treasurer; and me as President. Rozzie Hecker, Jock Keene, Bill Simpson Young […]

I was away for June and July and thank the Vice President for her work during that time. Since I have been back during this month August I have posted the following notices. The Glebe Society submission concerning Development Application for the Tramsheds at Harold Park.

This month (May 2013) I have posted the following: The NSW Government is introducing legislation which will remove much of Local Government controls of residential planning. It favours developers over residents. A Community Planning Forum will be held at the Glebe Town Hall on 16th May at 7.00 p.m. See the Planning Forum Flyer – […]

In April 2013 I posted the following: Copy of a Letter to Fred Nile re Planning Legislation – 2013, MLC, expressing our views about the proposed Planning Legislation. Copies of this letter were also addressed to Paul Green MLC, and to Matt Kean, MLC. The long-anticipated Planning White Paper was released on Tuesday, 16 April. […]