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 - Alternatives
    1. Proposal for a high density cluster on the summit of the old tip. Excellent views and location, ZERO disruption.



ALTERNATIVES
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In response to the Council's development plan, I submit two alternative proposals

1. An excellent way to achieve a high density cluster, without harm to interests of existing residents

I notice that your area plans for East Hills - Panania - Revesby area show the former Bankstown tip area as just a part of the large, undifferentiated 'open space' block adjacent to Deepwater park. If you take the total area of the proposed East Hills high and medium density development, and place it on the summit of the former Bankstown tip (which is a sizeable hill), it would look like a small dot.

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That tip is very little used. It has been closed as a tip for %%% ? over a decade, and now seems to be nothing but a dirt dumping ground. It's had a long time to settle. The hill is quite high, with great surrounding views from the top

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 It is surrounded by a green belt consisting of both original forest areas and replanted areas. There are playing fields, and a large permanently dedicated riverside park.
Best of all it's BIG.

Why not place a large group of relatively high residential structures on the top of this hill? With imaginative architecture it could be quite a striking and appealing feature of the landscape.
It could be large enough to house many times the number of extra units you'd be able to fit into East Hills center.
It's naturally surrounded by parklands, which is a very positive thing for people living in small appartments with no open space of their own.
With sensible layout, _every_ unit could enjoy the truly great views. This would be a significant counterballance to living in small units.
It's very close to the UWS Bankstown. Even now it's a short walk, and would be even closer with a walking/cycle bridge constructed over the M5 directly between them.
It's actually *closer* to Panania and Rvesby shopping center than the East Hills non-shops. So for people living there it would be more convenient.


From the point of view of myself and others living in the East Hills areas you've so casually marked in red and yellow, it doesn't involve destruction of our homes. There are currently no homes in the former Bankstown tip area.

Would subsidence be a problem? I don't know. But I'd think this would be a small problem for engineers, to provide solid foundations for construction. It certainly doesn't seem insurmountable.

The only major drawback I can see, is that the property developers who've been buying up blocks around my own home, and ensuring the tennants placed in these now-rental properties are obnoxious arseholes, usually with insufferably noisy large dogs which they neglect and underfeed, all the better to bark a lot, won't make the obscene profits they were anticipating. Whether this will also negatively impact the pockets of certain Bankstown councilors, I couldn't say.
Not much opportunity for personal profit in selling off an old tip to housing developers is there?
Does that have anything to do with why this very obvious path to raised average housing density in the Bankstown South West area has not been mentioned in the Council's plan? The largest disused open space in the entire area, and it's not even mentioned!
I bet it does.