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Darlinghurst has effectively been split in two by the parlous
state of Oxford Street, a fact you see mirrored in the Council's
own 2008 Resident's guide below.
From the first time we encountered LAPs we consistently pointed
out that they split Darlinghurst in two and effectively relegated
Oxford Street to some bizarre no mans land. At every stage we
were told that they would not pose a problem, that our concerns
had been taken on board and the Oxford Street would not suffer.
The exact opposite has occurred.
If this council is not just a 'resident's council' then it must
address this fundamental problem. There are three ways in which
it can do this. Our recommendation and by far the easiest is
to shift the 'soft' border to William
Street. The alternative is to combine
both LAPs, but this then becomes unwieldy in terms of
the reasons the LAPs were developed. The third is to elevate
the Oxford Street Cultural Quarter to the level of an LAP,
giving the city eight of them.
We have made these suggestions only to be told that the LAPs
are being phased out. This does not change the fact that the
entire city bureaucracy still uses the LAPs as the fundamental
resource when talking, thinking and speaking about the city
up. Whether or not they are phased out is not important, because
this will take years and LAP residue will surface in council
publications for years unless they are actually and officially
changed.
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