STEP is a community-based environmental organisation of over 400 members from Ku-ring-gai and surrounding suburbs of northern Sydney.
Our primary aim is to preserve all natural bushland within the area from alienation and degradation.
Concept plans for this redevelopment were on public exhibition until 19 June. STEP has put together this submission opposing the redevelopment, addressing a broad range of issues including housing strategy, traffic and endangered communities and species.
St Ives Showground Development
The showground site at North St Ives attracts nearly 500,000 users per year - a well-used community asset with a multitude of local and regional activities. Its strategic environmental location, consisting of a critical bush link for wildlife and threatened Duffys Forest Ecological Community means careful planning is required to improve use of existing facilities, and independent expert environmental and traffic impact reports for all future development proposals.
Read STEP's presentation and recommendations for St Ives Showground here.
On Tuesday 23 June, Tony Capon presents a talk on cities as healthy human habitat. Tony is a local North Shore resident and Professor at the National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health, Australian National University in Canberra. He is a public health physician with expertise in environmental health and infectious diseases. Tony's research interests are in the fields of sustainability and population health, understanding of urban environments and health and diseases of modern civilisation.For more information, please visit our Walks and Talks page.
STEP Publications
STEP is indebted to long-time member Dr John Martyn for the production of two books plus walking maps of the Lane Cove Valley and Middle Harbour Valley. |  |
Read about STEP's achievements in 2008 and outlook for 2009.
To access previously published editions of STEP's bimonthly newsletter, click here.
STEP Inc, PO Box 697, Turramurra, NSW 2074 E-mail:secretary@step.org.au