North Shore eruv in the pipeline
THE Northern Eruv committee is busy working to revive a plan to build an eruv that would enclose part of the North Shore suburb of St Ives in Sydney. Ku-ring-gai Council staff rejected the committee's original application last October.
THE Northern Eruv committee is busy working to revive a plan to build an eruv that would enclose part of the North Shore suburb of St Ives in Sydney. Ku-ring-gai Council staff rejected the committee’s original application last October due to fears over its impact on the area.
The council’s concerns include the use of 26 poles to erect the 20-kilometre boundary, which it thinks could be visually “inconsistent” with the area. It also fears the extension wires could adversely affect the trees.
Some of the information provided by the applicant, the council said, was “inaccurate or incomplete”, rendering the development application “unsatisfactory”. But after months of consultations to review the proposal, the committee said this week that it could be ready to relodge the application as early as August.
“Since October last year, the committee has been continuing its works for the St Ives eruv,” Northern Eruv spokesman David Guth told The AJN. “This has been done in association with the local council, other stakeholders and various parties with a view to relodging the application in the very near future.
“The committee has been working to ensure a successful outcome for the community and will look to provide an update at the appropriate time,” he added.
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