A number of people have asked me to help them locate the updated housing strategy on the Hornsby Shire website. And indeed it is not easy to find. The original housing strategy document is still presented on the website as though it is the current document, and I can find no reference to the fact that there is a new version.
To find the latest version, you have to go through quite a complicated path. Go to https://businesspapers.hornsby.councilsonline.com.au/, and select December 2009, then select the "planning" line and click "view". Go right to the bottom of this document and you will find the amendments to the Strategy Document, including the key line "Beecroft Road - Allow 5 storey, part residential, part mixed use development."
One problem is that it doesn't seem possible to print out individual pages of the document, which is about 200 pages long.
At the very bottom are links, one of which finally opens up a new document Planning Proposal Hornsby Shire Housing Strategy Version 1 December 2009. Oddly, it starts by saying "This is the first version of the Hornsby Shire Housing Strategy Planning Proposal", which makes one wonder how it relates to the earlier and subsequently modified document.
The introduction says "After consideration of submissions, Council has resolved to amend the Strategy. The precincts proposed for rezoning for increased densities previously identified in Volume 2 of the Strategy have been amended and are now identified in the draft zoning maps attached to this proposal."
One wonders why the original and now obsolete document is still on display on the council website, and why the amended version is so hard to locate.
About one third of the way through this document you will find the map showing the area proposed for redevelopment in Beecroft - the entirety of Beecroft Village between Chapman Avenue, Beecroft Road, and Wongala Crescent, down as far as and including the fire station.
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