What we have lost

Take a wistful look at our video "What We Have Lost", and remind yourself of the extent of the destruction being caused in Ku-ring-gai. Gather strength from it and make your voice heard in protest!

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Nonprofits & Activism

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• Friends
• Ku-ring-gai
• environment
• FOKE
• community
• group
• inappropriate
• unsympathetic
• development
• Roseville
• Lindfield
• Killara
• Gordon
• Pymble
• St Ives
• Turramurra
• Wahroonga
• Warrawee
• Lane Cove
• Garigal
• Chase
• National
• Trust
• NSW
• conservation
• area
• UCA
• heritage

[FOKEsydney]

Wow, today our video was seen in Western Australia, tomorrow the World!!...Nobody wants unsympathetic inappropriate development. Take a look at our new video, "Ku-ring-gai for Sale" We want a say in how our suburbs are developed, not told what we are to have by faceless Planning Panels and Developers.

[lmenday]

driving along the Pac Hwy last week I thought that the new aparments are an improvement. 1 storey homes along this road are too small and make the area feel open and hostile, but the apartments compensate for the busyness/scale of the road. Otherwise, while some of these apartments are pretty ordinary, many employ thoughful designs and high grade materials, and fit well with the topography. I dont see why they are 'unsympathetic'!

[steptile]

You said it yourself, "engage with design and ensure quality". These new blocks going up have nothing to do with quality. They also have nothing to do with urban development. It is all about fast bucks. We have lost old suburbs such as Haberfield, Leichhardt, Chatswood and Willoughby. You can still see abundant heritage in Glebe, Annandale, Hunters Hill and Paddington -- and boy, how people clamour to live in those suburbs, and visit their restaurants and amenities. You might ask yourself why.

[mumandtwins]

I am in South Australia doing business and society at Uni I am very interested in the Social Sustainability of this area if that is what they can call bulldozing beautiful homes and replacing them with concrete Not nice :(

[billJmears]

@Steptile1 Whats more! The BLF wanted to build schools, aged care, hospitals, houses and flats for ORDINARY people because they didn’t have these things! How would a green ban on your houses help to achieve what Mundy, Pringles and Owens were fighting for?

[billJmears]

@Steptile1 What? I assume that you mean to stop all development in your pretty little part of Sydney? Why would we (working class/unions) support bans in an area that supports the party (libs) that has destroyed our security and won’t spend a cent on services! I know that the BLF supported the national trust, but the big stuff (rocks/domain/kellys bush) was about protecting public access for ordinary people, not the interests of a wealthy few!

[lmenday]

@Steptile1 Also bc you can see windows rather than just fences, it looks like a place where people live, which I think gives it a friendlier feel. There are many beautiful low density parts of Ku-ring-gai, where the federation homes rather than the road are able to be the focus of the landscape, but I like the apartments on the highway.

[lmenday]

@Steptile1 the volume of traffic + scale of the road are not reciprocated in the built form. The traffic and front fences (which often block the views to the houses) r the predominant feature in the landscape and the place feels ‘open and hostile’ bc there is no protection for pedestrians and nothing else to see, kind of like a suburban desert I think. the apartments help to balance this because the scale is better matched and the road/fences are no longer the only feature of the landscape.

[Steptile1]

Isn't it about time we had more green bans?