Here are a few
‘dot’ points to summarise Tuesday night’s Public Meeting:
- Criticism of Council’s lack of due diligence, including construction problems/costs and issues with developing on the flood plains of the North Esk River and potential seismic risks
- The track record of UTas in consistently chipping away at the Launceston campus making it but a shadow of what it was 20 years ago. There is no confidence this pattern will change
- 10,000 PLUS extra students can’t be guaranteed. It is an aspirational figure based on demographics not fact, and a fraud to say that is the kind of figure that will eventuate from this proposal
- Absence of support by electors
- Risk of UTas plan not fully eventuating or finding success – the punt
- Reliance on trust versus a properly defined and proven business plan
- The Northern Campuses remaining lesser branches of UTas without the ability of independent initiatives to remain sustainable
- Traffic congestion and parking inadequacies for UTas and other users of the precinct
- We need a uniquely Northern campus independent of UTas
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