James Stevens (Sturt, Liberal Party, Shadow Assistant Minister for Government Waste Reduction) Share this | Hansard source

I rise to record my deep opposition to the appalling proposal to rezone land in Glenside to allow 20-storey towers to be built at the Cedar Woods development. There's a public meeting this Saturday that my colleague and friend the state member for Bragg, Jack Batty, has organised. I look forward to joining local residents, who are really deeply traumatised by this dangerous proposal that will cause significant destruction of property value.

There are people who invested in that development, believing in good faith that the way in which it was presented by the Cedar Woods developers would be the way in which it panned out, and now they're seeking to rezone land to put 20-storey towers there. It will completely change the aspect and the atmosphere of that development, and I really call on the state Labor government to rule this out. They're undertaking consultation and saying they're going to consider allowing it to go ahead. That is absolutely appalling and absolutely disgraceful. Of course, as soon as they allow 20-storey towers in Glenside, we'll have them right through the eastern suburbs.

The infrastructure of the eastern suburbs is not capable of dealing with that kind of dramatic scarring of our skyline and enormous uplift in population. Our schools are burgeoning as it is. The state government are failing to invest in the infrastructure we need for the existing population there. They need to rule this out, stand by residents and block that redevelopment.

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