And work at the Cheltenham site has well and truly begun at the Cheltenham racecourse site. Saw a few excavators on site last week. Nearmap confirms.
I think what used to be the TAFE building on the Torrens Road side has also been demolished now.
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Mayor looks for new St Clair land swap
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26 JAN 11 @ 10:00AM BY MICHELLE ETHERIDGE
ANOTHER land swap could save St Clair Oval from development and return the Woodville park to public ownership, Charles Sturt Mayor Kirsten Alexander says.
The new council will hold a workshop in February to decide its stance on the original contentious land swap, which would pave the way for housing on the Woodville Rd park.
Ms Alexander last week told the Weekly Times Messenger she believed the council should audit its land ownership across the west, to determine whether another site could be used to bargain for the 4.7ha reserve.
“There may be other properties that fit the bill for development in proximity to a transit corridor, so we can do an exchange,” she said.
The previous Charles Sturt Council voted in late 2009 to swap the St Clair land with the State Government in exchange for the adjacent former Actil factory site.
The move sparked community protests and helped Ms Alexander - a former St Clair Reserve Residents Association spokeswoman - trounce incumbent mayor Harold Anderson in November’s council election.
The land swap would allow the State Government to build a transit-oriented development with high-density housing, offices and shops.
A new reserve is being built at the adjacent former Actil factory site as part of the 1200-home St Clair housing development on the former Cheltenham racecourse and remaining Actil land.
St Clair Reserve Residents Association chair Leni Brown said at the very least the council should lobby the State Government’s Land Management Corporation (LMC) to increase the amount of open space retained at the site.
“This land swap will be very difficult to undo but in theory ... if they can swap it once, they can swap it again,” she said.
LMC chief executive Wayne Gibbings said the process for rezoning St Clair Oval was expected to begin towards the middle of the year while building work would start from mid-2012.
With all the money they spent on the land their couldn't afford style.Xaragmata wrote:Some shots of St Clair yesterday - seems to be a wasted opportunity so far:
Ahh! My eyes!Xaragmata wrote:Some shots of St Clair yesterday - seems to be a wasted opportunity so far:
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