Parking in the Village

Someone asked about overall parking availability in the village. There are a total of some 243 spaces in the village, including street parking. Of these, 97 spaces are The Module (48 at the rear over Franklins, and 49 in the main area). There are 65 spaces in the Arcade parking areas, 27 near the firestation, 8 in front of R&H, 14 in front of 5 Wongalla, and about 32 on Wongalla Rd and Hannah St. There are also a number of private spaces behind many of the shops.
The key factor then is that The Module car park is nearly half of the available off-street public parking. But people need to remember that it is not "public", it is for use of staff and customers of shops and offices in The Module.
But it is clear that there is lots of parking available, so we should be encouraging the friendly village atmosphere of the precinct, not forcing people away by only letting them park for the "authorised" two hours. Our motto should be "Come and Browse".

Parking in the Module

Further to my blog of 10 Feb, I have continued to monitor the parking spaces behind the Module, and have so far never counted less than 16 empty spaces. The average over the whole month, between 9:10 am and 4:40pm, has been 33 spaces.
Despite this, someone has been complaining to strata management, and letters are being put in windscreens for people who stay beyond the 2 hour official parking time. This seems a pity, since it compels customers to come, do their planned business, and leave, instead of dalying, enjoying a coffee or a meal or a massage, and roaming the shops. Very short sighted by those who are making the fuss.

Paper Wasps

We had a complaint of a wasp nest in the eaves of a property.

We sent our specialist around, he found and destroyed a total of sixteen active nests. Here he is at work.

Be Gone Foul Wasps!

Interest Rates on hold again

Last month the forecasters were wrong, official rates stayed fixed. This time the forecasters were right, official rates stayed fixed. Will be interesting to see how the banks respond this time.

Rail Freight Corridor Guest Speaker

A representative from Transport NSW will speak at the Beecroft Cheltenham Civic Trust AGM on 26 March to explain intentions for the third rail track through Cheltenham and Beecroft. Cheltenham Recreation Club, 7:30 pm start.

Parking in the Module

Last Friday someone complained they couldn't find a parking spot at the Module. An hour later there were 26 spaces, showing how many shoppers use the spot. Given that the shops in the module pay with our rents for that car park, it concerns some shopkeepers that so many staff from shops elsewhere in the Village park in the Module car park. There is talk of restoring the council rangers, and enforcing the two hour limit, but it's probably more important to restrict access to those working or shopping in the module. Perhaps a ticket system that you can validate in Module shops?
However the problem isn't that bad, a survey all this week has found that during shopping hours there were an average of 31 space available, with never less than 14 free spaces. Don't be put off by the bottom two rows of spaces being full, there are always places up the hill and round the corner. Compare that to trying to park in Carlingford shopping arcade!

RWB Web Site

Visiontech, who were hosting our raywhitebeecroft.com.au web site, has gone into liquidation.
The old website has been replaced with a new Ray White Corporate format website with much more flexibility. It's worth recording that in just under three years the website had been visited 17,365 times by 8,192 unique visitors, with 76,539 page views!

Rezoning Blitz in Push for Housing

According to an article in today's Sydney Morning Herald, the NSW state government is moving to bypass councils and rezone sites nominated by developers as suitable for tens of thousands of new homes.
Mr McMahon of Wollondilly Shire Council points out that "we don't want just residential". Any such new tranches of housing need to be associated with commercial development to give local job opportunities, as well as shopping, schools, etc.
One of the big complaints registered by Beecroft residents against the Uniting Church's Development Application 1305, for 51 new residential units between Hannah Street and Copeland Road, is that there is no supporting infrastructure. No places for entertainment, no room in local schools, no room on the roads. It's not good enough for state government to hand a "licence to build" to developers without also providing the infrastructure needed by the new residents.

House Prices Emerging from Doldrums

Simon Johanson of SMH Business Day gives an optimistic report "after almost two years of gloom house prices in Sydney are showing some signs of improvement, and real estate agents hope lower interest rates will accelerate the trend."
Data from Australian Property Monitors suggests median house prices were up marginally across Australia in the December quarter, the first time since a year earlier.

New Digital Display Screens

As part of our constant technological improvement, Lymlive have just upgraded our digital screen computers to provide improved clarity and reliability.