Rally in West End
Hundreds of people turned out for the rally to Save West End at the Big Lizard in Boundary Street on Saturday 17 October.
The rally was featured on Channel 7, 9 and the ABC and the message to the Brisbane City Council was loud and clear: the people of Brisbane love West End and will fight to protect its character, creative energy and urban village atmosphere from the reckless and senseless overdevelopment proposed by the Council.
Residents are not opposed to development – in fact we welcome it – but it must be in accordance with sustainable planning principles.
What you can do to help save West End:
- In a word, a sentence or a parapgrah, say what you like about West End story at the How to Post page at the top of the page
- Read what other people say about West End on the West End Stories page
- Sign the petition and get your neighbours to do the same
- Email your concerns to SouthBrisbaneRiverside@brisbane.qld.gov.au ,Campbell Newman by visiting www.brisbane.qld.gov.au, your local MP, Anna Bligh, at South.Brisbane@parliament.qld.gov.au, and Cr Helen Abrahams at thegabba.ward@ecn.net.au
- Keep checking this website for updates and upcoming activities.
Brisbane City Council’s draft neighbourhood plan is a plan to wreck our neighbourhood. It will deliver an overcrowded concrete jungle and massive windfall profits at the expense of West End’s unique character.
- An extra 25,000 residents and an extra 14,000 cars
- No new schools, childcare centres or libraries for the extra 2000 kids
- 5 to 15 storeys for Boundary Street and right through the heart of West End
- 12 to 30 storeys along the Brisbane River extending the CBD into West End.
What we want:
- Human-scale development and an urban village atmosphere;
- The character and diversity of West End maintained – an interesting place for all of Brisbane;
- Proper consultation with the people who live here.
Make no mistake, if this plan goes ahead it will mean the death of the West End we know and love. Once its gone we can never get it back.
Make your voice heard as part of West End: Many Stories not 30 Storeys. Say in a word, a sentence or a paragraph what you like about West End on the “How to Post” page
Contact: info@savewestend.org