Blacktown City Council - Have Your Say - Warrick Lane Precinct Development

Warrick Lane Precinct Redevelopment 

The transformation of Blacktown city centre into a modern metropolitan centre has been Council’s vision for many years.

We want to develop the Warrick Lane site to generate major economic, employment and social benefits for the people of Blacktown City. The proposed $76.5 million redevelopment will ensure the site’s size and strategic location will be better utilised to deliver a vibrant city centre for both residents and businesses.

Our strategy is to encourage investment from the government and private sectors.  

The Warrick Lane Precinct is proposed as a modern mixed-use development including commercial office, retail, civic, university and carpark uses, anchored on a new public plaza.

We would like to hear your thoughts about the proposal for the new Warrick Lane precinct. Complete the form on Council's website. 

Click on the button below to go directly to our website and provide your feedback.

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Visit: www.blacktown.nsw.gov.au
Call: 9387 2600, weekdays 9 am to 5 pm
Email: warricklane@elton.com.au
 

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Blacktown City Council - Media Release - Willmot Residents Encouraged To Have Their Say

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12 October 2018

Key issues including safety programs will be tackled at Blacktown

City Council’s next community forum in Willmot.

Council is staging a community forum to address a number of 

issues including parks and reserves on Monday, 22 October at 7pm at Willmot Public School.

Blacktown City Mayor Stephen Bali MP said: “When Council visited the community in Whalan last year many residents raised questions about Council’s community safety programs.”

“We will address these concerns next week and also let you know about some other great projects Council has undertaken in the community.”

Mayor Bali said community forums are a great way for the community to meet Councillors and Council officers and raise any issues concerning your neighbourhood.

“We want to you hear from you on any other issues you want to raise at this forum,” he said.

Forum details:
Date and Time: Monday 22 October at 7pm
Location: Willmot Public School, Discovery Avenue, Willmot

Blacktown City Council - Media Release - Council Pop-ups In Colebee

Residents will be given more opportunities to have their say with at a series of weekend pop-up information sessions.

Blacktown City Mayor Stephen Bali MP says addressing residents and ratepayers concerns on the spot is one of the most effective ways to engage with the community.

“We have held community forums right across Blacktown over two years now and they have been invaluable in providing important feedback to Council and real results for the community,” Mayor Bali said.

‘Until now most of our forums have all been held in the evenings to give people the opportunity to meet us after work or school.”

“Next Saturday we will hold our first Pop-Up Information Session at Greenway Village in Colebee. I will be there with my fellow Councillors and  Council Officers to answer your questions and concerns.

We will be holding two more Saturday Pop-Up Information Sessions later in the year at Seven Hills and Mount Druitt. ,” Mayor Bali said.

Council will continue to host evening Community Forums, with two more planned for this year.

“We want as many people as possible to have “Your Say”.

“With my fellow Councillors, I look forward to spending the afternoon with you and listening to your concerns,” Mayor Bali said.

Details:
Day:     Saturday
Date:    29 September 2018
Time:   1 pm to 3 pm
Venue: Greenway Village, 799 Richmond Road, Colebee

Blacktown City Counci - Media Release - Community Backs Council On IHAP

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2 March 2018

Blacktown Councillors got a strong vote of support from residents who raised their voices about the impact of the Independent Hearing and Assessment Panel at the most recent Have Your Say community forum.

During the open forum session residents raised concerns that, from 1 March, their local councillors will not be approving development applications.

The Mayor of Blacktown City, Stephen Bali MP said: “From 1 March our hands will be tied as councillors.

“These applications will go through a separate process and we as a council won’t have a say in the approval process.

“Yet every day we have residents telling us about the adverse impact these properties are having on neighbours.”

Council staff also updated the audience about upgrades and plans for parks and reserves in the area, including a proposed fitness station at the Alwyn Lindfield Reserve in Glenwood.

The state-of-the-art human powered fitness station will allow users to charge their devices while using exercise as a source of power.

Mayor Bali said: “Face to face engagement with the community is powerful. It is great to see people turn up to our forums to hear what Council is doing and raise their concerns directly with us.”

Council’s next community forum is at 7pm on Monday, 30 April at The Ponds Community Hub, 45 Riverbank Drive, The Ponds.  

Next forum details:
Monday, 30 April, 7pm at The Ponds Community Hub, 45 Riverbank Drive, The Ponds.  Email: Forums@blacktown.nsw.gov.

Blacktown City Council Follow Up On ' Have Your Say'

An item of interest from last week that we want to share with you.Y
ou may have seen the Channel Nine story that the people wanting to build an energy from Waste generator at Eastern Creek are offering 1,000 solar panel gernerators for local houses if their plan is approved by the NSW Government.  Mayor Bali's response to this (also attached) was pretty straightforward:

Blacktown Mayor slams “blanket and trinkets” offer for EFW approval

Blacktown City Mayor Stephen Bali MP has reacted with outrage to the offer of free solar panels for western Sydney residents if an energy from waste incinerator is approved at Eastern Creek.

Dial a Dump founder Ian Malouf has offered to install solar panels at 1,000 homes in Erskine Park and Minchinbury once construction of his controversial proposed waste incinerator begins.

See the story  here.

“There is a rich man’s arrogance about this that reminds me of the way natives were conned out of land rights by being given trinkets, beads and blankets,” Mayor Bali said.
“Let me understand this:  Ian Malouf thinks giving 1,000 homes free solar panels is going to change the opinion of the 2,100,000 people who live in western Sydney about his project?

“As The Castle’s Darryl Kerrigan would have said: ‘Tell him he’s dreaming’.”

“He’s desperate for approval, it’s a cynical offer and it’s demeaning to the residents of western Sydney.

Mayor Bali also says there is an irony about the offer to give away a super-sustainable electricity generator in exchange for getting support for a waste incinerating electricity generator that the EPA has criticised.

“If he thinks solar power is so good, why not go somewhere outback and make money from a big solar generation plant?
There is a hint of desperation about this, which has angered the locals, Mayor Bali said.

“The feedback I have been getting is that Mr Malouf’s attempted PR tactic has backfired.

“Locals are rightly acting with contempt that someone thinks going into a solar power lotto they will be convinced to change their mind.

“I am wondering if ICAC should be taking interest in a developer who thinks approval for projects can be won by a give-away campaign where opinion is shaped by doing favours or handing out gifts.

“Any project should be either accepted or rejected based on its merit, not on trinket giveaways.

Have 'Your Say' - Blacktown City Council - Is A Fair Go For All To See, Learn And Understand

Last night I attended my first Blacktown City Council, Community 'Have Your Say' and although, half  the seats were filled, I did find it  great value as an individual community member to attend. You can have your say, it is fair across  the board. 

How many  people know who their local Councillors are - a lot of people don't care, don't want to know or simply are not interested. Yet if there is a major Council decision happening in their street and they are directly affected negatively, then they will want to know who their Councillors are and revved up their Councillors, so that decisions may be overturned.

So congratulations to the community members that turned up and it was a shame that the fellow next to me, left halfway through the meeting. He missed out on a lot. There were a arrange of topics covered good and bad as we explained how Council is involved in community safety audits, when  there anti-social issues that destroy Council or privately owned property and the Local Area Command Police are involved.

 Everyone was reluctant to start the questions, so I had a 2 part question. These are issues that passionately been in my heart for more than  8 years now. The  breaking consistently of glass sheltered buses and its Cost to Council and  Whalan has 3 - 4 overpasses that may not be safety for the public as well, The answers I received from Mayor Stephen Bali, indicated he has done his research and homework and even suggested that in time as the community grows there will few be few or less incidents with glass shelters being broken, over a period of time as the community  grows in time. With the overpasses it was noted that people do required them as access to get around the community.

There were topics on NO  Incnerator, NO Western Sydney Airport, local  medical practice  is seeking  for Council's help to make use of the derelict  building behind the shops - Council agreed to discuss and there was John Rosewarne, President from the Whalan Community Action Group, who are worried  about losing their premises at the Old Whalan High School - Mayor Stephen Bali assured him that Council would work with his group to locate new facilities and finally was the discussion for  the  Council to accept  Westfield carpark fees - apparently  may have been accepted in NSW Government  bodies, if Council went against it, so Council has negotiated reduced costs - which maybe the community will not understand - that process itself is difficult.

The thing about opening up and have your say at local community meetings, it gives us a chance to let our how we feel of the area - how we love our area and we require it to be more utilised and beautified- you can gain and gage answers from both Councillors and Council Officers, depending on who has the right answer to the question

I thoroughly recommend these community meetings be on a regular basis, no matter who is Mayor. This is a great concept to continue  to have and hold and alert the community on what is happening and  may be happening.

I would like these meetings be placed in Council Calendars in years to come, so the community is aware when they being held.