Sydney to get its first new inner-city suburb in decades as Glebe Island becomes Bays West
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Sydney to get its first new inner-city suburb in decades as Glebe Island becomes Bays West
Posted by thekriptik
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Not to be a naysayer but
“Importantly, this precinct will include affordable and essential worker housing from day one, so nurses, teachers, paramedics and police can live closer to the communities they serve,” Minns said.”
Yeah… they said that about Barangaroo as well.
> Ten per cent, or at least 700, of its new homes will be affordable and earmarked for essential workers, while 25% of the land will be given to open space. It will remain in public hands.
How do they decide who gets access to these homes?
Will that place get a metro station when the new line opens? All those towers only accessible through road sound like a traffic nightmare like Wentworth Point.
There’s no chance in hell any of that will be affordable that close to the city.
People complain about house prices, and yet people will complain when the government makes announcements like this. Some progress is better than no progress at all, and the more properties that get built the better. It’s a good way to make use of some prime land holding that was not really bringing any real value.
I have no doubt a lot of white haired retired/jobless nimbys will work day and night to stop this.
Does that mean that the giant silo’s with the 250m long billboard will finally be demolished?
As someone who spent his childhood going to the port I’m going to be very sad seeing the port go.
Although I do believe at one point Disney has plans for this area which would have been interesting to see.
Anyway I assume traffic will be even worse around there and it will only be rich people living there eventually
Would have been interesting to see Glebe Island turned into a community space vs very expensive waterfront luxury units. Being in the open vs ‘on land’ so to speak.
Those will be top end of town prices.
I had thought some form of arts, cultural, village feel where people can chill, kids can play, events can happen, fringe communities can access along with access to the water for kayaks and the like.
A ferry could stop there enroute to fish markets.
The island seems big enough to accommodate a lot of various groups needs.
And when they talk about retaining ownership of the land. I presume that means leasehold for 99 yrs like a lot of the wharf units, Kings st wharf and Tumbalong area is.
There will be a lot of nimbys in the area who will complain about this but it’s a great spot for further development
Affordable housing are studio bedsits in the basement with a small window and a kitchenette.
Developers put them in after first submission to ask for additional stories on their development. Giving them more penthouses at the top.
Of course families can live in those bedsit affordable housing apartments /s
Attractive destinations on a metro line shouldn’t have housing like this.
It should be a destination for people to travel too and enjoy.
Imagine parkland with people coming in from their family homes around say Parra where there metro west will service? Or the north west/south west?
NUP. Government just plonks multi million dollar apartments there for the mega wealthy.
It’s the wrong design – “value capture “ on the metro line should be left to residential areas away from the harbour. And instead waterfront public space.
Bays west? What in the sweet American hell is this? Did KK come up with the name?
While they’re certainly not pretty (at least in their current form), the grain snd cement silos are landmark of Sydney Harbour’s working past. It’s disappointing thay they can’t be kept and adaptively reused (think vertical gardens, art installations, etc.) as part of this precint development.
I like how they say it will be “affordable”.