Let’s rezone Point Piper to fit the Big Australia advocates
Australia’s population is growing faster than any other developed country, so here’s a great idea to make room for our increasing population – rezone Point Piper to fit the Big Australia advocates. Our population is now growing by one million every 3½ years. Many Australians have doubts about this, the world’s biggest immigration program, the developed world’s highest population growth.
Bob Carr or recent Foreign Secretary, Premier of New South Wales and friend of Harry Triguboff of Meriton fame, is suggesting we rezone Point Piper to very high density along with many other areas Sydney. Of course, this is the huge problem with growth and development; it’s a fantastic thing to have as long as it’s not in my suburb!
Mr Carr has highlighted three challenges to all supporters of a Big Australia.
(1) They should link their population build-up to infrastructure. State and commonwealth governments should be able to guarantee Australia would not be laying out new suburbs that leave residents beyond easy walking distance from public transport.
(2) Big Australians need to get honest about the intensified zonings required as both Sydney and Melbourne climb to 7 million by mid-century. This is where Mr Carr makes the sensible, but tongue-in-cheek suggestion of re-zoning Point Piper to lift its population from its current 6000 to a robust 30,000, pumping up its R2 zonings to allow stepped towers rising from, five stories on Wolseley Crescent reaching 30 in Wunulla Road!
(3) His third challenge to the advocates of Big Australia, is to link higher population growth to progress towards a sustainable Australia. Spell out that any immigration above, say, 90,000 per annum would be dependent on certified progress in benchmarks such as stepped reductions in water use per head or carbon emissions per head. Rapid population growth is making it harder to maintain recent progress. More (treated) sewage means a bigger dump of nutrients into our rivers, more cars a rise in ground level ozone, more multi-unit dwellings, the return of harbour overflows. Read more: http://goo.gl/qARZP2
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