Dear Council,
1.Re DA 0320/2020
I wish to object to this DA on the basis that
a) UTas has never provided verifiable evidence to support relocating from the Newnham Campus.
b) the intended Willis St site is subject to flood inundation, levees or not.
c) the site is already surrounded by busy traffic thoroughfares and it is madness to add still more traffic to the current situation.
d) Adding to the current traffic saturation levels further impacts on the local amenity and on current users of Boland Street, the Esplanade, Tamar St Bridge with the ever-increasing domino effects on north-south traffic flow as well as east-west traffic flow.
e) Remval of the current car parking and the loss of the convenience of that parking is not in the public interest and detracts from the local amenity in that it will push those users further afield thereby affecting propoerties further afield.
If the Council really held genuine concern for the interests of residents and ratepayers, and if Councillors placed honesty, integrity, genuine transparency and such like attributes at the top of their personal lists, the Councillors would and should vote to reject this and all other, future UTas relocation development applications.
Dr Jillian Koshin, Launceston
An uphill battle that began when we protested to LCC at the giving away of the Inveresk land to Utas in 2016. Ironically the actual meeting at the Albert Hall was cancelled because of the floods and closure of the Charles St bridge. I was evacuated to the Utas Newnham campus. It became obvious to me then that moving Utas to Inveresk was irresponsible. Why didnt LCC see that then?
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