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This was the BCC budget 2014 – 2015. 

With over 3,000 new apartments built since the rates take has vastly increased.

We have paid for this park many times over

Please contact your State member or Brisbane City Council Councillor from the following list of representatives about this issue at your earliest convenience.  This may be your opportunity to speak to your local representative and see if they are really representing you.

We have also listed details for media you may wish to contact. Letters to the editor or emails suggesting topics to talk back radio can be very effective.

We have included suggestions on content areas and talking points:

HERE ARE SOME TALKING POINTS:

  1. There will never be a better opportunity to buy this site.  It is our generations opportunity to leave the type of legacy to our children that our Grandparents left to us. For the price on one years rates from the suburbs surrounding the site we will build an infrastructure asset that will last many generations.

  2. Need for Green Space and Sport and Recreation Land:  Toowong has insufficient green and recreational space available to its present growing population.  This area has one of the highest proportions of young people in Brisbane with more young families moving into the area.

  3. Toowong has more than doubled in population since the 1960s and yet it has almost half the parkland and sport and recreational space that it did then. It has lost the following sites:

    1. The Toowong Bowls club river front site on Glen Road in 1967.
    2. A major part of Moorland Park to Land Street and the widening of Coronation Drive in the 1970s. The parking space that services the Wesley Hospital from the 1990s.
    3. The Toowong Library and associated park site in 2001. 
    4. The Toowong Pool in 2003.
    5. The Auchenflower Bowls Club in Bayliss Street in 2003.
    6. Toowong Memorial Park to Wests Rugby Club Development
  4.  This area already has serious traffic flow issues and this will become much worse, as will parking if more residential development is allowed on this site.
  5. This area is clearly marked on Council maps as flood affected.  The neighbouring sites will be more affected by future flooding as a result of the ground level of this site being built up in the attempt to flood proof it.  Any development into the river could potentially damage existing mangroves and vegetation.  Developers and town planners, not ratepayers, should be personally liable for flood damage to neighbouring properties should these plans be approved.
  6. You have the responsibility to protect and nurture the amenity for the present population and to create living space for a future larger population.  This site is the last opportunity to replace lost public space for one of Brisbane’s most well-known and visited suburbs.  This should represent a model of good higher density planning.  A community lives with bad planning decisions for a very long time, long after the developers and politicians who supported the development have moved on.

List of Brisbane City Council Councillors: Brisbane City Council – Your Councillors

List of State Members of Parliament: State Government – Your Members

MEDIA CONTACTS:

Quest Community Newspapers and questnews.com.au

Quest Group.

Email: readerhelp@qnp.newsltd.com.au

General enquiries: 1300 304 020

Westside News

News Editor: Brendan O’Malley

Email: brendan.omalley@news.com.au 

Email: editorial@westsidenews.com.au

Phone: (07) 3666 7119

Courier Mail.

Jack McKay reporter

Email:  jack.mckay2@news.com.au.

Email: cos@thecouriermail.com.au

Newsroom Phone: (07) 3666 8000.

My News Phone: 1300 696 397.

The Courier Mail welcome letters to the Editor

Contribute your letter

Queensland Newspapers Pty Ltd, trading as News Queensland

Cnr Mayne Rd & Campbell St, Bowen Hills, Queensland, 4006

Postal address

GPO Box 130, Brisbane, Queensland, 4001

T: 1300 033 266    F: (07) 3666 6696

Brisbane Times

General inquiries: 07 3835 7500.

Email: scoop@brisbanetimes.com.au.

Tony Moore Email: tony.moore@brisbanetimes.com.au

Phone: (07) 3835 7518

Lucy Stone Email: l.stone@brisbanetimes.com.au

Jocelyn Garcia Email: jocelyn.garcia@brisbanetimes.com.au

 ABC Radio

SMS: 0467 922 612

Facbook: https://www.facebook.com/612ABCBrisbane

Twitter: @612brisbane

Call the station (talk back only): 1300 222 612

Breakfast (5 – 8 am) : Craig Zonca & Loretta Ryan

Mornings (8:30 – 11:00 am) : Rebecca Levingston

Email: Levingston.rebecca@abc.net.au

Drive (3:30 – 6:30 pm) : Steve Austin

Cereal Box 30 sec recorded message – Phone: (07) 3223 0612
After the show – Phone: (07) 3377 5162

RADIO NEWS – Coordinators.

ABC 612 News Email: news.qld@abc.net.au  ((07) 3377 5244

4ZZZ News Email: news@4zzzfm.org.au or (07) 3252 1555.

SMS: 0420 626 733.

Nova 96.9 News Email: news@nova1069.com.au or (07) 3872 6900.

B105 News Email: bne.news@austereo.com.au or (07) 3837 1053.

4KQ News Email: bnenews@arn.com.au or (07) 3394 2299

4BC News Email: news@4bc.com.au or (07) 3908 8244

TV NEWS – Coordinators

ABC News Email: news.qld@abc.net.au or (07) 3377 5222.

Channel 7 News Email: 7news@seven.com.au or (07) 3368 7389

Channel 9 News Email: qtqnewsroom@nine.com.au or (07) 3214 9943.

Channel 10 News Email: tvqcos1@networkten.com.au or (07) 3214 1073

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About Park It

Park IT (Park in Toowong Community Group) is a local community group fighting to create a park on the last river side site available in Toowong.

The old ABC site is 15,000 square meters, flood prone with a river frontage of approximately 130 metres.  It is the ideal site for a river side park.

The community has been lobbying for many years for this parkland.  They were encouraged to believe that the Brisbane City Council and the State Government were working towards that goal.  By keeping up community pressure we can still achieve a wonderful park to be enjoyed for many generations to come.

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