Campaign Update

forestlodgetrees meets with new Member for Balmain

On 15 June 2007, representatives of the forestlodgetrees community group and the Owners' Corporation at 77 Hereford Street met with the Hon. Verity Firth MP, new state member for Balmain, to discuss the current status of the issues concerning the land at 9 Alfred Road. Ms Firth is also a Councillor for the City of Sydney and State Minister Assisting (Climate Change, Environment and Water).

Ms Firth agreed to try to progress negotiations between the State Government and City of Sydney with a view to preservation of the Crown land in public ownership for public open space.

Ms Firth also agreed to look into this issue in the context of the Department of Environment and Climate Change's City and Country Environment Restoration Program in view of correspondence between one of our forestlodgetrees campaigner's and the then Minister for the Environment, Bob Debus, in May 2006.
(See blog entry: Campaign Diary: May-June 2006 in the June 2006 blog archive.)