Q. HOW DO WE GET THE LINDFIELD VILLAGE HUB BUILT?
A. BY ELECTING COUNCILLORS WHO ARE FOCUSED ON OUTCOMES FOR OUR COMMUNITY
We need your donation to reach our target and support our campaign to elect strong and community focused Councillors. We're over half way there!
You can donate in one of three ways;
EFT to our bank account BSB 633 000 account no. 147 440 192 name Support Lindfield Inc (Your reference first name + last name)
or click on this link DONATE to pay by secure credit card or Paypal.
Why do we need change?
Your Council has spent $9 million over 9 years on the Lindfield Village Hub project and achieved nothing, zero, zilch.
Support Lindfield is run by a small group of dedicated locals with limited resources. Your donation will help us drive change to get the Hub built.
Your donation will help fund a community campaign to make the Lindfield Village Hub a core issue in the Council election on 4th September.
Along with other community groups we are identifying a group of candidates (including some existing Councillors who have supported the project) who are seriously up for the job and focused on delivering outcomes for the community.
Your donation will be used to design/print/distribute flyers and posters and Facebook promotions.
Thank you.
We could use your talents
If you have skills and experience in communications, marketing, advertising campaigns, and graphic design or are just good at getting things done, then put your hand up. We need your professional help with the community campaign in the coming election. Contact us at info@supportlindfield.net
And please pass this along to your local friends and neighbours.
Here’s a reminder of the Lindfield Village Hub journey….. or read the full timeline here
In 2012 Support Lindfield approached the then Transport Minister Gladys Berejiklian who put a hold on plans to build a multi-storey commuter carpark behind the West Lindfield shops to allow time for a better project to be conceived. The Community worked together to create a vision for the Lindfield Village Hub that included a town square, library, other community facilities, café precinct, specialty retail and supermarket.
Woolworths put forward several proposals to build the project, like those they have delivered for other Sydney Councils. They would fund the building of the Hub in return for a lease on the supermarket space with Council funding limited to fitting out the community facilities using funds generated from the sale of the current library site. No additional Council/ratepayers money would be required.
Council rejected these offers and instead have pursued an expensive consultant-led process to identify requirements and determine an alternate design. Despite an exhaustive tender process Woolworths is effectively the only development group still interested and Council remains unwilling to commit to starting the project. The amount spent on the project to date equates to around $3300 per Lindfield household.
We need a Council committed and capable of serving the community by overseeing appropriate planning policy and the development and revitalisation of shopping precincts and community facilities.
Support Lindfield will endorse candidates in all Ku-ring-gai Council wards who will commit to making the Hub happen. We welcome collaboration with other community groups in Ku-ring-gai who also see the need for change. Email us at info@supportlindfield.net if you are interested in standing in the 2021 Council elections or working with us for change.
The Support Lindfield Team