Campbell Newman's plan for the Howard Smith Wharves.
A giant 9 storey hotel under and around the Story Bridge will be a planning disaster for Brisbane.
It will funnel thousands of vehicles per day through a narrow, dangerous access to the site, shared by pedestrians and cyclists.
In breach of the Howard Smith Wharves Heritage Listing, the 300-room hotel will hide the cliffs, obliterate the iconic vistas and permanently alienate this area as a public space.
We want the wharves to be a welcoming, colouful, safe addition to our city. Not a dangerous, over-crowded, over-developed place.
It is a place for people. Not a giant hotel.
Thankyou Brisbane for lodging more than 200 objections.
More than 200 written objections is a powerful response from the concerned residents of Brisbane. Don't stop there.
Now you can still be heard by emailing Infrastructure Minister Stirling Hinchliffe and local member Grace Grace.
Email addresses opposite.
Writing a submission / objection.
Heading:
HOWARD SMITH WHARVES, BOUNDARY ST., BRISBANE.
DEVELOPMENT APPLICATION NUMBER A002165832
Then write your objections based on such issues as
# Loss of prime, riverfront, public parkland.
# Significant traffic generation in a narrow cul de sac, with dangers for pedestrians and cyclists.
# Heritage destruction, including the entire, heritage listed site, the views and cliffs.
# Massive over-development of the site, out of context with its heritage listed wharves and buildings.
There are disturbing precedents here for the heritage process in brisbane and a disaster in the making for traffic in this corner of the city. It will put intolerable pressure on the already choked Adelaide street/Boundary street access, and present a clear danger to pedestrians attempting to use what remains of the riverwalk.
