Friends of ANZAC Park Toowong New Blogspot

The 'SAVE ANZAC PARK' campaign is over.

"WE SAVED ANZAC PARK"

New Blogspot for Friends of ANZAC Park Toowong:
http://faptoowong.blogspot.com.au/

'Like' the new post-campaign Facebook page HERE

Contact the Community Liaison Group member representing Friends of ANZAC Park if you would like to raise any matters about the tunnel project over the construction period with Transcity and/or BCC - Email: faptoowong@gmail.com

Thanks to everyone who helped to save our park.

Transcity Updates

Contact details HERE 
Sign up for project updates HERE

Legacy Way underground power supply cable

We Saved ANZAC Park. However, at the moment there is another tunnel project issue affecting ANZAC Park which is the Legacy Way underground power supply cable proposed to run from the sub-station on the corner of Wool and Miskin Streets, along Wool Street, crossing ANZAC Park at the top of Wool and Cross Streets, across the area near memorial plantings above the stone-walled road, over the hill where the project’s monitoring instruments are located near the Dog off-leash area, then across the freeway to the Legacy Way western worksite near the Botanic Gardens.

The week before supporters were advised on 5 April that BCC would no longer be “pursuing” ANZAC Park as the site to locate the Legacy Way construction workforce car park, surveyors were seen working in Wool Street. At a meeting with Transcity on seeing the Energex plans it was noticed that the cable route is proposed to cut across ANZAC Park in the area where there are memorial plantings believed to be part of the Avenue of Honour.

BCC had discarded the memorial significance of the park last November, however during the campaign to save ANZAC Park supporters spent considerable time researching the history of the park and discovered that the Avenue of Honour in ANZAC Park is listed for restoration on the BCC ‘Avenue of Honour Research Report’ of 2007. Strangely, this was not mentioned in the Northern Link Cultural Heritage Environmental Impact Statement of September 2008. Also not mentioned in this document were the ashes scattered in Jack's Gully in 1999 and the well known practice of the scattering of ashes in the park of Diggers over the decades. There is also other information missing. It appears that this document, as far as ANZAC Park is concerned, has relied on the information provided to the author by amateur local history groups rather than on primary research which should have been undertaken by qualified experts. Transcity and BCC are to consult about the cable supply route and its impact on the Avenue as ANZAC Park is listed on the BCC Heritage Register and it is a condition of the Coordinator-General that this occurs. Input from volunteer community consultation means FAPT are discussing with Transcity and BCC the best possible route so that this power supply cable won’t interfere with the future restoration of the Avenue.

The installation should happen in July and residents will be notified.

ANZAC Park Research Project

Image: ANZAC Park Avenue of Honour

Our campaign is over, we have saved the park, but the history of ANZAC Park, corner of Wool and Dean Streets, Toowong, continues to be researched and the file is growing thicker.

Did you know ANZAC Park has an Avenue of Honour planted at the beginning of last century? Some of the palms and other trees are still there.

• Treenet 'Avenues of Honour' Project 1915 - 2015 HERE
• BCC 'Avenues of Honour' Research Report 2007 lists ANZAC Park HERE
• The 'Avenue of Honour' in ANZAC Park was not mentioned in the Northern Link Cultural Heritage EIS of September 2008 HERE

Subscribe to the new FAPT email list for updates about ANZAC Park and/or the Legacy Way Tunnel Project: faptoowong@gmail.com

Image: Florence Hamilton (c1923) beside memorial palm and plaque in ANZAC Park, Wool Street.

Legacy Way Community Liaison Group Meeting Tonight

Friends of ANZAC Park Toowong (FAPT) has a Community Liaison Group (CLG) Member representing FAPT and the wider community at the western connection, who attends the CLG Meetings along with ten other representatives from the local community, BCC and Transcity. The purpose of the CLGs is to provide communuity input on a range of matters. The CLG's provide an advisory role to Transcity on community issues, concerns and values.

At the moment the main issue for ANZAC Park is the Legacy Way underground power supply cable which will run from the sub-station on the corner of Wool and Miskin Streets, along Wool Street, crossing ANZAC Park near the dog off-leash park to the Legacy Way western worksite. We are discussing the best possible route so that this power supply cable doesn't impact on the remnants of the Avenue of Honour. Our other concern, of course, is our friends across the pedestrian/bikeway at Mt Coot-tha.

Email the FAPT CLG Representative if you have any questions: faptoowong@gmail.com

Next CLG Meeting: tonight 11 May 2011, then 6 June 2011.


Also sign up for Transcity Legacy Way emails and/or updates HERE

Celebratory Picnic in SAVED ANZAC PARK

Thanks to everyone who came along to our celebratory picnic on Saturday in ANZAC War Memorial Park.

It was great to catch up in the park saved as a result of a five month campaign by the local community and others who worked vigorously and passionately against Brisbane City Council's pursual of our well-loved green space and memorial park. The proposal in December which was refused by the Coordinator-General, and the return in February with Option 4 Dog off-leash area ANZAC Park & Option 5 ANZAC Park North, came from the administration of Lord Mayor Campbell Newman; Graham Quirk, Deputy Mayor & Chairman for Infrastructure; Cr Peter Matic, Chairman of Environment, Parks & Sustainability, and the post Brisbane flood title of Chairman, Environmental Recovery Sub-Committee; BCC Major Infrastructure Projects Office; and BCC Northern Link ‘Legacy Way’ Consultation Team.

Best wishes and thank you to everyone who helped to SAVE ANZAC PARK! See you at the park sometime.

Westside News Anzac Park carpark ruled out

Friends of ANZAC Park Toowong is not aligned with any political or religious organisation

We are simply a collection of locals and others who objected to our local heritage listed public park being used as a private construction workforce car park by the Northern Link Road Tunnel Project 'Legacy Way'. We come from all walks of life and we wanted the situation created by the Coordinator-General's imposed condition for off-street parking and BCC's disrespectful approach to it resolved in the best possible way for the community and the tunnel workers. We were not willing to accept any options for a car park to be located in ANZAC War Memorial Park, Toowong - our well-loved green space and war memorial park.

Celebratory Picnic this coming Saturday, 7 May, 2011

We saved Anzac Park! Come and celebrate!

Saturday, 7 May, 2011, from midday in ANZAC Park, Wool Street, Toowong.

BYO Picnic

A children's face painter will be at the picnic on Saturday between 1 pm and 3 pm (Thanks to Andrew Fraser)