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The Age
25-05-2025
- Business
- The Age
The Sydney football club fighting plans for 200 apartments
A Sydney football club is fighting against a plan to build eight-storey apartment blocks overlooking its home ground, worried that an influx of neighbours will bring a barrage of noise complaints. Developer Platino Properties has lodged a planning proposal seeking permission to construct four buildings – two with eight storeys and two with six storeys – on industrial land next to Lambert Park, home of the APIA Leichhardt Football Club. The development is the latest example of rising tensions between locals and developers in the inner west, as established suburbs are set to get more high-density buildings under council's mass rezoning plan to deliver 30,000 new homes. APIA president Tony Raciti fears that once residents move into the new units, the club will become 'the next Luna Park' and that it will be flooded with complaints from neighbours. In 1995, the NSW Supreme Court restricted the operating hours of the Big Dipper rollercoaster after a group of neighbouring residents complained about noise. 'It's a sports facility used from 7am up to 10pm, and we make a lot of noise. We scream, shout, the referees blow whistles, floodlights would be penetrating into people's bedrooms,' he said. 'We aren't anti-housing. We want skyscrapers in Leichhardt. The more people that move here, the more registrations we get – [but this proposal] is just not compatible.' The developer wants to build 210 dwellings with retail space on the ground floor and extra public green space. The site is next to the light rail tracks and the GreenWay, and a short walk to the Marion stop. Currently, the site is occupied by a warehouse and car parking spaces.
Sydney Morning Herald
25-05-2025
- Business
- Sydney Morning Herald
The Sydney football club fighting plans for 200 apartments
A Sydney football club is fighting against a plan to build eight-storey apartment blocks overlooking its home ground, worried that an influx of neighbours will bring a barrage of noise complaints. Developer Platino Properties has lodged a planning proposal seeking permission to construct four buildings – two with eight storeys and two with six storeys – on industrial land next to Lambert Park, home of the APIA Leichhardt Football Club. The development is the latest example of rising tensions between locals and developers in the inner west, as established suburbs are set to get more high-density buildings under council's mass rezoning plan to deliver 30,000 new homes. APIA president Tony Raciti fears that once residents move into the new units, the club will become 'the next Luna Park' and that it will be flooded with complaints from neighbours. In 1995, the NSW Supreme Court restricted the operating hours of the Big Dipper rollercoaster after a group of neighbouring residents complained about noise. 'It's a sports facility used from 7am up to 10pm, and we make a lot of noise. We scream, shout, the referees blow whistles, floodlights would be penetrating into people's bedrooms,' he said. 'We aren't anti-housing. We want skyscrapers in Leichhardt. The more people that move here, the more registrations we get – [but this proposal] is just not compatible.' The developer wants to build 210 dwellings with retail space on the ground floor and extra public green space. The site is next to the light rail tracks and the GreenWay, and a short walk to the Marion stop. Currently, the site is occupied by a warehouse and car parking spaces.
