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Eastern Sector remediation

The Eastern Precinct and the Eastern Sector Regional Park still have contamination issues. Lend Lease  lodged a DA for a Remediation Action Plan (RAP) to overcome contamination issues of these areas with Blacktown Council on the 19 September 2003. Blacktown Council handed the DA over to the NSW Planning Minister on October 27 2003 for him to determine as State Significant Development.

Craig Knowles, the NSW Planning Minister, approved this DA on July 6 2004 yet Lend Lease only started works in February 2005.  

The aim of Lend Leases RAP works is to have the Eastern Sector Regional Park opened up to unrestricted public access and more land made suitable for urban development. 

ADI RAG opposes unrestricted public access to the Eastern Sector Regional Park because Lend Leases RAP fails to satisfy the recommendations stipulated by an Independent Site Auditor in the 1999 Eastern Sector Site Audit Statement. 

ADI RAG in 2004 discovered exposed fragmented asbestos piping in various locations within the proposed Eastern Sector Regional Park. Some of it was removed for evidence.

Lend Leases RAP does not take into account asbestos. It's scope is too narrow and concentrates mainly on the discovery of unexploded ordnance and areas used to burn chemicals. 

ADI RAG will be attempting to communicate these concerns to the Independent Site Auditor, who must revisit the Eastern Sector to review Lend Leases RAP works. His findings will be detailed in another Site Audit Statement.

Lend Lease in its marketing strategy to sell the Eastern Precinct wants new residents to access the adjoining bushland. This is all they are interested in, the last thing they want confronting potential land buyers is a 2 metre security fence around the Regional Park. 

Again it will be interesting to see if the NSW Government caves into Lend Leases demands.

 

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