Author: robin stanton

Please Walk or Bike to the rally  if you can – parking is always tight, and will be very challenged on Saturday.

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Save Curtin Square

Protest Rally

11am Saturday 21 January 2017

Come along to hear about the development application, show your concern, sign the petition and hear how to make a response or objection

The facts

• a development application has been lodged to build a large building right on the edge of Curtin Square• the building will be 6 storeys above the square—5 storeys of high-ceiling rental apartments (50) on top of a double-height (7m) retail ground floor

• it will be equivalent in height to a 8-storey building

• many existing shops have not been guaranteed space in the new building.

We say the risk to Curtin is too great

• the building is much too big for the square—we agree with the Curtin Draft Master Plan, which limits 2 storeys on the square, 4 storeys off the square• the building will greatly reduce sunlight into the square from early afternoon onwards for over half the year—autumn, winter and spring

• the building will make parking more difficult for shoppers and visitors to cafés, gym, dentist and doctor

• the 50 apartments will make traffic problems worse for shoppers and nearby residents

• we will lose shops that make Curtin Square a unique and interesting place with its own identity

• we risk losing Curtin’s strongest feature—its sense of community

• we are not against development, but this one is not right for the square.