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carcharias

carcharias

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Mr Angry said:
What about this gem.....

LU has gotten into the minds of League jurnos.

Really....where does that happen, I know only one place where that comparison occurs, right here on this forum..........well played fellow sharks.....[/COLOR]

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Wow
I should have copyrighted it.
 
Sharky Pete

Sharky Pete

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Sharks decision welcome
BY MURRAY TREMBATH
05 Jul, 2012 06:00 AM
TOTAL endorsement of the $300 million Sharks plan by the Department of Planning and Infrastructure was enthusiastically welcomed by supporters and shocked opponents.
‘‘A lot of people have been waiting for this for many years and thought it would never come,’’ long-time club member Helen Taylor, of Cronulla, said.

‘‘We have had successive state governments who have lacked the foresight to make decisions for the future.’’

Robyn Jacques, of Sylvania Heights, a club member for 20 years, said the project would create many jobs during construction and in the future.

North Cronulla Precinct Committee president Ian Sinclair said the residents’ group was disappointed the department hadn’t considered the many concerns of residents.

‘‘We will look to the Planning Assessment Commission to further progress the concerns of the community,’’ he said.

Sutherland Shire mayor Carol Provan said 14 of the council’s 15 councillors opposed the present plan. She believed the government was ‘‘a bit flat’’ and was trying to get some big developments under way.

The plan is for a retail, entertainment and leisure centre, integrated with upgraded club facilities and eight apartment blocks ranging from eight to 16 storeys, providing about 700 apartments.

In addition, the football stadium would be upgraded.

The department said the proposal was consistent with the government’s Metro Plan and sub-regional strategy, and would contribute to homes and jobs requirements.

The department said it disagreed with the councils’s view that it was a poor strategic planning outcome.

Benefits included more retail floor space in an area where there was a significant shortfall.

An interim shuttle bus service to the railway would be funded and operated by the proponent until a public service was implemented.

The department described this as ‘‘a workable solution’’ to the present lack of public transport.
 
Sharky Pete

Sharky Pete

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Endorsement 'thrills' Sharks
BY BRAD FORREST
05 Jul, 2012 08:00 AM
THE $300million Sharks retail and unit development moved another step closer to approval following Monday’s endorsement by the Department of Planning and Infrasctructure.
The under-resourced Sharks Football Club, senior and junior players, staff and stadium will benefit from the flow-on effects of the proposed redevelopment. (see SPORT)

Sharks chairman Damian Irvine said the development would allow the club to move away from the traditional revenue streams of gaming.

‘‘We can plan for more recreational and retail activities, which cater to the broader community,’’ he said.

Mr Irvine said the club was ‘‘thrilled’’ with the Department of Planning’s endorsement.

‘‘It endorsed every aspect of the proposed development prepared by the club and development partners, Bluestone Capital Ventures, and recommended the project be approved by the Planning Assessment Commission,’’ he said.

‘‘It demonstrates the proposed new centre meets the huge under-supply of supermarket and convenience retail and diverse housing.’’

The proposed redevelopment has a new retail centre, including major supermarket and specialty retail premises, financial and convenience services, medical day surgery as well as a large health and leisure component within the club.

‘‘It will have tremendous community, social, employment and economic benefits,’’ Mr Irvine said.

‘‘It will provide an estimated 1500 new jobs during the construction and development of the centre and beyond, with employment created in the retail, leisure, medical, service, hospitality, commercial and maintenance sectors.’’

Mr Irvine said the proposed mixed residential estate would also promote much-needed housing diversity and affordability.

‘‘The Draft South Subregional Strategy identified that the shire needs approximately 10,100 new dwellings by 2031 to cater for the increased forecast population growth,’’ he said. ‘‘This new centre contributes as little as 6 percent of that total forecast.’’

Mr Irvine said the club’s extensive communications and information program drew 4813 public submissions, of which 56 percent were in support. A number of key issues were raised and addressed in the Preferred Project Report submission.
 
Sharky Pete

Sharky Pete

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Mayor fears Sharks and brick pit plans are a done deal

BY MURRAY TREMBATH
05 Jul, 2012 04:00 AM

SUTHERLAND Shire mayor Carol Provan conceded the Cronulla Sharks and Kirrawee brick pit developments would likely go ahead after the Department of Planning and Infrastructure recommended approval this week.
Councillor Provan said she would ‘‘keep my fingers crossed’’, but held out little hope the Planning Assessment Commission would reject the department’s view and support the council’s objections.

Ben Fairfax, of Bluestone Property Solutions, the Sharks’ development partner, said he was very pleased with the department’s decision ‘‘but we still have a lot of hard work to do to secure the commission’s approval’’.

A spokeswoman for the commission rejected any suggestion of decisions being a foregone conclusion and said there had been a number of previous cases where the department’s recommendation was not accepted.

She said public meetings would be held within three weeks to give residents their say and talks would be held with the council and proponents. Decisions will follow in ‘‘two weeks to two months’’, depending if more information was needed.

Commission head Gabrielle Kibble will sit on the panel that will determine the $300 million Sharks proposal.

Ms Kibble has extensive public sector experience and headed the Department of Planning and Urban Affairs for 10 years until 1997.

She will be joined by architect Richard Thorp and former Labor minister Garry West, who will act as chairman.

A separate panel to consider the $238 Kirrawee project had not been named yesterday afternoon.

A Department of Planning and Infrastructure spokeswoman said the timing of its recommendations on consecutive days this week was ‘‘just coincidence, as the assessment process for both projects was completed around the same time’’.

Miranda MP Graham Annesley supported the assessment process for the brick pit project in his electorate.

He said he opposed any inappropriate development, particularly if it took place ‘‘behind closed doors’’ under Part 3A of planning laws.

But he said the application, which continued under the now scrapped Part 3A system but without the Planning Minister’s involvement, had been through a very public process.

‘‘Regardless of the outcome, I don’t believe the process could be any fairer or more transparent,’’ he said.
 
gunnamatta bay

gunnamatta bay

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Kirrawee brick pit development
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Another debacle which has dragged on for decades. Does anyone in that ivory tower know how to make a decision?

I'm just glad they are not running the country!
 
J

jc155776

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Liberal scumbag Speakman opposing it in the development. Saying he will lobby against it unless more changes are made.
 
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