Double Bay Cinema on hold

The rooftop cinema planned for Double Bay has had a reprieve Woollahra Council agreed to defer voting on it until extra documentation was provided.

The cinema, to be built on top of 376-382 Double Bay by Fivex Commercial Property, looked like it might be refused at council on Monday night after it had received a split vote at the Development Control Committee the week before.

Those voting to refuse cited issues with noise and light pollution.

However, the council has voted to defer judgment after it received legal advice indicating that a SEPP 1 objection, an application under State Government policy that allows for exemptions for local planning controls, needed to be lodged.

The application has been deferred until the Development Control Committee meeting on January 18, 2010.

Wentworth Courier – 15 December, 2009

By: Jennifer Bennett