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2GB Radio Discussion with Alan Jones – Double Bay Development 14 March 2007
fadmin • March 24, 2011
Last night I opened a magnificent landmark in Double Bay at 376-382 New South Head Road.
A young developer Lesli Berger of the Fivex Commercial Property doing a wonderful job.
And the project harvests rainwater for potable water use, recycles sewage for grey water use, cuts out over 150 tonnes of greenhouse gases, all sorts of sustainable design features.
But of course obstacles put in its way by Woollahra Council and Energy Australia.
Why be surprised.
Government policies at local and State level are disincentives to developers who want to do the right thing.
Woollahra Council charging 1.3 million dollars under a section 94 development levy for the lack of on-site parking.
That’s a 26 per cent development tax.
Council says they want to expand the council-owned car park in Cross Street.
But the Cross Street car park is never full, on average about 50 per cent capacity.
At peak, 71 per cent.
The top floor of the car park has never seen a car.
But rip 1.3 million dollars off this sustainable development.
Then Energy Australia have taken 700,000 dollars worth of the property’s prime retail space to install an electricity kiosk.
No compensation.
Yet the Fivex Commercial Property are building a four-storey building designed so that they will use no more energy than the previous one which was one and a half storeys.
Energy Australia ignore the environmental benefits, insist on the installation of the electricity kiosk, so 700,000 dollars is lost in capital value, a virtual 14 per cent tax.
Why would people go sustainable?
Anyway, Lesli Berger with the help of Michael Mobbs did.
I opened it.
We toasted the triumph by drinking recycled sewage.
More lies told about recycled sewage from Premier Iemma down than you could ever deal with.
Spoken By Alan Jones on Radio 2GB – 14 March, 2007.
A young developer Lesli Berger of the Fivex Commercial Property doing a wonderful job.
And the project harvests rainwater for potable water use, recycles sewage for grey water use, cuts out over 150 tonnes of greenhouse gases, all sorts of sustainable design features.
But of course obstacles put in its way by Woollahra Council and Energy Australia.
Why be surprised.
Government policies at local and State level are disincentives to developers who want to do the right thing.
Woollahra Council charging 1.3 million dollars under a section 94 development levy for the lack of on-site parking.
That’s a 26 per cent development tax.
Council says they want to expand the council-owned car park in Cross Street.
But the Cross Street car park is never full, on average about 50 per cent capacity.
At peak, 71 per cent.
The top floor of the car park has never seen a car.
But rip 1.3 million dollars off this sustainable development.
Then Energy Australia have taken 700,000 dollars worth of the property’s prime retail space to install an electricity kiosk.
No compensation.
Yet the Fivex Commercial Property are building a four-storey building designed so that they will use no more energy than the previous one which was one and a half storeys.
Energy Australia ignore the environmental benefits, insist on the installation of the electricity kiosk, so 700,000 dollars is lost in capital value, a virtual 14 per cent tax.
Why would people go sustainable?
Anyway, Lesli Berger with the help of Michael Mobbs did.
I opened it.
We toasted the triumph by drinking recycled sewage.
More lies told about recycled sewage from Premier Iemma down than you could ever deal with.
Spoken By Alan Jones on Radio 2GB – 14 March, 2007.