NSW 2023 Elections – Greater Sydney Parklands Trust Report Card.
We need support from public park users and the broader community to ensure that our precious open spaces – that provide respite and recreation opportunities for people and families who are living in increasingly urbanised and developed places – and habitat for our ever-decreasing animal and bird life – are not razed and built over to provide 'activated spaces' that generate revenue for government and accommodate big business and organised sport.
About the Alliance.
Alliance for Public Parklands is a coalition of community groups and individuals whose aim is to protect significant parklands in the Greater Sydney Region for future generations. They include Blacktown & District Environment Group, Friends of Callan Park, Centennial Park Residents’ Association, Friends of Fernhill and Mulgoa Valley, and North Parramatta Residents’ Action Group.
We have come together in response to the New South Wales government's proposed new Greater Sydney Parklands agency that presently manages five of Sydney’s most iconic parks.
Genuine community engagement, respect for biodiversity and heritage, and a desire to restore the natural environment sit at the heart of our efforts.
A message from Wayne Olling, Blacktown and District Environment Group.
In this video comment Wayne Olling appeals to the members of the Legislative Council to reject the Bill. The Bill will permit wide-scale commercial developments in Western Sydney parklands and result in a great loss of open space.
A message from Suzette Meade, Secretary North Parramatta Residents Action Group.
In this video comment Suzette Meade calls for the Bill to be rejected. The Alliance for Public Parklands’ continues to campaign against the Bill as a whole rather than ‘tinkering at the edges’ with amendments, as all Alliance members believe the Bill is fundamentally flawed.
We blocked the Greater Sydney Parklands Trust Bill from becoming legislation in November.
In November 2021 the Alliance for Public Parklands welcomed the news that the NSW Upper House decided to send the highly contested Greater Sydney Parklands Trust Bill to a Parliamentary inquiry in January 2022.
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Growing urban density, increased developer activity and surging pressures to commercialise, more than ever, are impacting our parklands. The price of protection is eternal vigilance. This is where the work of the community oriented Alliance for Public Parklands is so critical, and warrants our full support. Future generations will expect nothing less.”
PROFESSOR JOHN NILAND AC
Chair of the Centennial Park and Moore Park Trust (2002-2010)
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Your parks are your breathing spaces. Guard them, cherish them. Parkland is valuable and greedy eyes see the money in it. So you must always be on the alert. Hang onto your breathing spaces in this developing and already over-congested city. Protect your parks from the pressure of political concrete.”
PATRICK WHITE
1972 Rally, Centennial Park, Sydney
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Nature is our biggest ally and our greatest inspiration.”
DAVID ATTENBOROUGH
British broadcaster and environmentalist
Our precious parklands.
