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Letter no 2 Dealing with the Environmental Consequences of demolishing 82 Wentworth Park Rd We have prepared this letter dealing with the environmental consequences of demolishing public housing. Please use this sample letter or use it to send your own letter to Minister Jackson as soon as you can. Go to the Minister’s Contact page https://www.nsw.gov.au/nsw-government/ministers/minister-for-water-housing-homelessness-mental-health-youth-and-north-coast […]
View of 82 Wentworth Park Rd
82 Wentworth Park Rd Glebe Which would you prefer? Check the images above: 82 Wentworth Park Road as it is today or the impression of the new building as planned by the Land and Housing Corporation. The Local Planning Panel (LPP) met on 13 December to consider the DA which authorises the demolition and rebuild […]
In a housing crisis why demolish? Media Release Monday, 11 December 2023 Sydney community group Hands off Glebe, with the support of the Glebe Society, is launching its latest booklet, The Wentworth Report, at Sydney Town Hall on Tuesday 12 December at 6.30pm. The booklet presents the case to save the public housing complex at […]
It argues the case for an alternative approach to increasing the supply of good public housing by renovating the existing building and adding additional housing on the site.
The fight for 82 continues At a rally at Parliament House on 23 August organised by Hands off Glebe, local MP Kobi Shetty accepted over 400 letters from Glebe residents demanding renovation not demolition of 82 Wentworth Park Road. Kobi delivered the letters on our behalf to Housing and Homelessness Minister Rose Jackson. We had […]
August 23rd 2023 Our objections to demolition of 82 Wentworth Park Rd Strong community support against demolition exists.
Media Release Tuesday August 22nd Hundreds of objections to the planned demolition of public housing complex 82 Wentworth Park Road in Glebe will be presented to Parliament on Wednesday 23 August. “The Royal Institute of British Architects has created the new prize to encourage architects to pour their creativity into refurbishing existing buildings, rather than […]
Media release 1 on protest letters Hands off Glebe activists will deliver over 400 letters calling for the 82 Wentworth Park public housing complex to be saved from demolition to Housing Minister Jackson at Parliament House on Wednesday 22 August at 10.30am. “The decision by the NSW Minister for Housing and Homelessness Rose Jackson to […]
Stop the demolition of 82 Wentworth Park Rd Why demolish a building that can house 27 people in the middle of a housing crisis? We need community support to convince/persuade a very new NSW Housing Minister Ms Rose Jackson to change her mind and withdraw the DA to demolish and replace this building. We are […]