ANZAC Park is listed in the Avenues of Honour project. Take the link to our earlier post HERE
Option 4 Dog off leash area, ANZAC Park - if BCC proposes this option in an Application for evaluation of environmental effects of proposed change, which is lodged with the Coordinator-General, it has a plan for a road which will cut right across this Memorial Avenue of Honour - totally disrespecting the memory of the fallen and snubbing the park's listing on the BCC Heritage Register. Anzac Park is a place of local heritage significance as it meets one or more of the local heritage criteria under the Heritage Register Planning Scheme Policy of the Brisbane City Plan 2000
as a 19th century cemetery reserve, then early 20th century rifle range and after the Great War a memorial park, it is important in demonstrating the evolution or pattern of the City’s or local area’s history; and
an extensive area of undulating parkland including open eucalypt forest, distinctive plantings of pines, palms and ornamentals with a scatter of picnic areas and landscape features, it is important because of its aesthetic significance; and
as a place of informal recreation since the early 20th century, it has a strong or special association with the life or work of a particular community or cultural group for social, cultural or spiritual reasons; and
as a place for remembering the fallen from the district in the Great War, it has a strong or special association with the life or work of a particular community or cultural group for social, cultural or spiritual reasons.
Lord Mayor Campbell Newman this is disgusting. What are BCC thinking, to even consider doing this to ANZAC War Memorial Park, Toowong, is mindboggling.
If Anzac Park is again proposed for workforce parking and accepted, then when would the destruction begin? I'm guesstimating sometime around Anzac Day. Disgraceful.
ReplyDeleteHas railing against Campbell Newman worked? From what I can see it hasn’t. Why not work with BCC in the way that other groups are so BCC can really hear our concerns…
ReplyDeleteWe have tried to work with them. We are not naturally radicals, believe it or not. Would love to have names of groups who have successfully worked with BCC. Or some help to do it. If you have some ideas or contacts, we would love to have them. Or, if you want to start up a splinter group which takes a different path to the same objective without us on board, please do so. There is more than one way to skin a cat, so it is said, and if you can skin it better than us, and get the outcome, that would be terrific (and we could get out lives back).
ReplyDeletePerhaps I was too far back yesterday to hear correctly but what I thought I heard was that the Mt Coot-tha group are in discussions with BCC about the height of the wall they need to ensure that their lives won't be disrupted. When I've read through their blog, they don't have words like "disgusting" and "disgraceful". Such words do not help us at all. This should be more about reconciliation and resolution than negative words.
ReplyDeleteMt Coot-tha residents group had that discussion about noise walls with Transcity, the contractor, not BCC. They have had difficult times with BCC and continue to do so. Getting to the point with the Tunnel Control Centre did not come about by being gentle: it was a long and very draining campaign which has taken its toll (no pun intended). And MCRG's reward was a car park metres from their homes. Sound familiar? The noise wall is a consequence of Co-ordinator General conditions about noise limits, but I stand to be corrected about that.
ReplyDeleteRe the language, I take your point, but within our group is a broad church of people. We have been tried gentle, we have tried loud, we have tried conciliatory, we've even (extremely reluctantly)tried legal action. But the result has always been frustratingly the same: stonewalling and not being listened to. That frustration gets expressed from time to time. Forgive us our indiscretions.
Anonymous above at 6:44 - What don't you understand about the community not wanting a car park in a local 'ANZAC' park or not wanting a local car park already used by visitors to the Botanic Gardens. How do we discuss not to descrate sacred memorial ground? The idea to propose to destroy an ANZAC Park is a disgusting idea - move closer and listen carefully to the full story. We don't want it to happen, get it! Do you want to discuss nicely how to desecrate an ANZAC Park is that your point?
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