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Ugly and unsafe Carrington residents despair at lack of action over old building
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arrington resident, Georgia Shuwalow, has had enough. For the past two years she’s been lobbying Newcastle City Council to do something about the old Brambles building on Elizabeth Street – which since becoming empty has been vandalised, had its windows and fence smashed and is now a dumping ground for rubbish. “The aesthetics of the building just look horrible,� Ms Shuwalow said. “It’s not because it’s industrial – I mean we bought in an industrial street – it’s the fact that it’s old, falling down, and unsafe. “The whole thing is full of old petrol drums, there’s broken glass and stuff everywhere and kids are playing in there all the time [because of the holes in the fence].� Ms Shuwalow recently received a letter from Newcastle Council saying they had written to the owners and that they couldn’t do anything further. “The letter that Council sent to them just said to board up the windows, but that’s not going to solve the problem and make it look better,� Ms Shuwalow said. “[Council] could at least control the view and the aesthetics of the street.� According to a Newcastle Council spokesperson, they responded to Ms Shuwalow’s previous requests by organising mowing of the grass and clearing of rubbish, confi rming they wrote to the property
Now is the time to “take great alarm� – that was the key message from Newcastle City Council’s ‘Talking Numbers’ community information session that was held last week. Steve Edmonds, Director of City Assets, delivered the dismal fi nancial overview and stressed that Council has a “significant risk of insolvency by 2017�, also emphasising it would be preferable for Council to make cuts now, with community input...
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Frustrated Carrington resident, Georgia Shuwalow, outside the old Brambles building
owners on March 15 to request various improvements on the building and suggesting the use of their graffiti removal service. The spokesperson confi rmed that from here, it is the property owner’s responsibility, not the council’s, to maintain the site and that Council is unlikely to plant more trees given the area is classified as light industrial.
“Carrington’s meant to be one of the upcoming, trendier sort of suburbs, and you would think the Council would want to make sure it looks that way,� Ms Shuwalow said. Do you know more about the building or its owners? Email us at newcastlepost.com.au @triciamorosin
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