Tunnel project delays Balmain Tigers homecoming
Source: The Daily Telegraph
Summary:
The Balmain Tigers’ return to their spiritual home will have to wait another decade after the State Government confirmed its leagues club land in Rozelle will become a major construction site for the Western Harbour Tunnel.
Heworth Developments had hoped to start work on transforming the vandalised ruin into 173 apartments, shops and a new club for the Tigers next year, pending council approval of its development application.
But Heworth’s managing director Brian Hood said Roads and Maritime Services had “indicated they would need the site for eight years”, pushing the Tigers’ homecoming back to about 2028.
“I think the detrimental impact of using this site for the primary tunnelling site south of Sydney Harbour on the local community has been ill considered,” Mr Hood said.
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