Santa delivers 'secret document'

'Further Information to Application for Project Change' document now available HERE.
Friends of Anzac Park asked Northern Link for this document back in the first week of December 2010 when we found out that the Northern Link may have given the Coordinator-General a ‘revised scheme, or an ‘amended plan’ for the car park proposal, in addition to the 'Application for Project Change' document, which we based our submissions on. Instead, all we got were a few lines posted on Northern Link’s Newsroom website ‘December 2010 New information on workforce parking arrangements’ .

Under the State Development and Public Works Organisation Act 1971, after receiving the 'Application for Project Change', the 35F Coordinator-General may 35F(1)(b) ask the proponent for further information about the proposed change, its effects on the project or any other related matter.

The 'Further Information to Application for Project Change', document is hardly ‘further information’ about the construction workforce car park. It is more like a revised scheme produced as a result of our submissions and contact with Northern Link. Read it for yourself. The document appeared on Northern Link's website at the same time as the 'Coordinator-General's Change Report'. This is not the proper process and the reason for our Supreme Court Application.

In 2011 Northern Link, as advised by the Coordinator-General, will be fully exploring other options for the project’s parking proposal and in doing this will find that other options will satisfy the Coordinator-General’s condition for workforce car parking, rather than having to destroy our beautiful Anzac Park.

What is written in the 'Further Information to Application for Project Change' regarding the cultural heritage of Anzac Park indicates that the BCC Northern Link/Major Infrastructure Project Office still don't understand what cultural heritage means. They should read the submission made to the Coordinator-General objecting to the proposal, by Deanne Morrison, in full and in particular at item 33 - While the remnants of the palm avenue remain and must be preserved and conserved, whether the car park affects the actual remnants of the palm avenue is beside the point. Anzac Park was listed on the BCC Heritage Register because it satisfied the above criteria, therefore any use of the park in part or whole, under the Burra Charter must be compatible with the park’s cultural heritage significance. A car park for a construction workforce is not a compatible use. Northern Link cannot just construct a car park in a heritage listed park because it says that, in doing this, it will not interfere with memorial plantings or any other trees.Comprehendo!