According to SMH today, the Rozelle Residents Action Group is alarmed at the bulk and scale of the proposed residential and retail development on the Woolooware waterfront Victoria Road site. But thanks to the Labour government's "Project of State Significance" legislation, the minister can approve the development because it is worth a lot of money.
The developer has asked the planning department to declare the new project as a "Project of State Significance" so that the minister can approve it despite local objections. The new project is worth about $200 million, almost twice the estimated cost of the project that was rejected last year. Is that adequate justification for now approving it?
Given that the Liberal party have vowed to terminate this PSS rule and restore planning rights to local authorities, it seems most unethical that Labour's minister should approve the project so close to an election which will throw his party out of office and rescind that planning law!
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