Avoca Beach TheatreWhat Can You Do?








What to do next.

Having lost in Council, we are now forced to fight at  the State Government  level. It is important to write to Frank Sartor, Minster of Planning, and to the director of the State Heritage Office Reece McDougall.

Sartor has promised protection for sensitive sites near the coast (SEPP 71) and our theater and adjoining land,  surely fits that category. It even falls into the super sensitive zone, being  less than 100 meters to the high water mark. You don't have to argue the case eloquently, personal experiences and affection for the theatre, its place in our hearts and history, would be appropriate. The wording of the Minister's memo is vague.

If you take overseas visitors there or  can report other overseas  feedback, that's good.  Practical things to speak about are;

  1. The parking nightmare than now exists in summer and can only get worse.
  2. Confusion about what the place will be, an art house, church or a convention centre?  Letters that are hand written carry more influence.  If you have letterhead, that's impressive

The Hon Frank Sartor
Minster for Planning
Level 34 Gov. Macquarie Tower
No. 1. Farrer Place
Sydney NSW 2000.


The same content would work for Reece McDougall. Keep in mind council refused to heritage list the theatre at the local level in December 2002. This must irritate the State heritage office, since that is what they want to happen. They should not have to step in, the theatre being clearly of local heritage value, but they will have to now. We can ague that it has state heritage significance as well because it draws people from far and wide, even overseas.


But the  heritages aspects to stress are not so much the physical building, but the social aspects. The various events and  "do's"  which have charmed you.


Mr. Reece McDougall
Director
State Heritage Office
3 Marist Place
Parramatta NSW 2150

Please send a copy of your letters to Mike Rubbo. Pres. The Theatre Trust, 135 Hillside Rd. Avoca beach NSW 2251.

Our aim is for approx.  1000 letters by New Year to each man.


For some points for discussion, if you want to argue the case in more detail, go to the THOUGHTS page of this web site.

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