Councillor Chris Harris

Hello to all who attended the community meeting last month at the Paddington Town Hall where we discussed the activities of Fox Studios and the airborne and waterborne emissions that are coming out of the site. See below, over the fold, for a summary of the information provided to the community by Dr Chris Winder & Dr Mark Donohoe.

If you didn’t attend the meeting or would like to hear the speakers again, recordings of the main speakers are provided here in MP3 format in two parts.

1. Introductory remarks and then presentation by Dr Chris Winder: MP3 stream or MP3 download (35 MB)
2. Presentation by Dr Mark Donohoe: MP3 stream or MP3 download
   (15 MB)

If you have further questions or observations I would be interested in hearing from you.

The meeting was held at Paddington Town Hall on August 17 betwen 6 and 9 p.m.

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Yesterday I attended the launch of the Greens affordable housing bill at Pyrmont Point Park. Syliva Hale delivered a short speech to launch the bill and this was followed by a few words from the Mayor of Waverley, Mora Main and myself.

Pyrmont was chosen as the location for the launch as the successful City West affordable housing scheme has been established in this area for some time and now provides affordable accommodation for over 900 people.

The bill has been drafted as an amendment to the Environmental Planning legislation and would allow councils to require new housing developments of 10 units or more to provide a minimum of 10% of new housing units for people on low and moderate incomes. The affordable units would be managed by non-profit housing co-operatives or the Department of Housing.

Audio: Affordable housing remarks - April 2, 2006 at Pyrmont Point

• MP3 stream
• MP3 download