'BCC told to look elsewhere for tunnel carpark site' Sarah Vogler COUNCILS REPORTER
"RESIDENTS fighting to stop their memorial park becoming a carpark for the $1.5 billion Legacy Way tunnel are cautiously claiming victory following a ruling by the state's Coordinator-General. Brisbane City Council has been told to look for alternative parking for tunnel workmen after the Coordinator-General refused its plan to create a temporary car park in Anzac Park Toowong..."
NEWS page 30 HERE
What it comes down to, Lord Mayor Campbell Newman, is the fact that the local community has just spent two months of its own time and its own financial resources objecting to a proposal which should not have been made in the first place, when we have better things to do with our lives. The proposal for the 300 vehicle construction workforce car park within Anzac Park would have been approved by the Coordinator-General and our park would have been destroyed if we had not objected strenuously and filed in the Supreme Court.
What BCC should have learned from the Airport Link workforce car parking problems is that the workforce car parking imposed condition must be addressed properly, rather than seen as something inconsequential to the project and therefore deviously addressing it in only a few paragraphs in an Application for Project Change, just before a significant project is about to begin, hoping no one in the community would notice the proposal and then expecting it to be approved by your mate the Coordinator-General, no questions asked.
Construction workforce car parking is a condition which has to be satisfied. The locals don’t have to have their memorial park destroyed or have to put up with workers parking on the local streets either. A real solution must be found and if workers are provide with the luxury of car parking facilities then it should be expected that they use these facilties.
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