Weeds run wild at Paddo Bowls as lease holder returns with second childcare centre plan
ONCE the site of barefoot bowlers and good times, Paddington Bowling Club has been overrun by weeds amid new plans for a childcare centre on the site.
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THE company with a lease over the decrepit Paddington Bowling Club has returned to the State Government with its second proposal for a childcare centre on the site.
The Department of Primary Industries confirmed “CSKS Holdings has advised it intends to pursue a childcare centre” — this was despite the department overturning a previous approval for a 100-place centre in 2015.
“The (Department) last year advised CSKS Holdings and Woollahra Council that it has withdrawn its landowner’s consent to a DA for a childcare centre. That position remains in place,” the department said in a statement to Wentworth Courier.
The government is also keeping an eye on the abandoned site; a field of tall weeds covers the bowling greens and grass overruns the former outdoor drinking areas — for breaches of the lease.
“The Department recently conducted an inspection of the premises to check compliance with the conditions of the lease,” it said in the statement.
“The Department will convey its finding to the leaseholder before making any public comment.”
Owner of CSKS Holdings Christian Sanchez said it was too early to expand on the new plans, but confirmed the department “have a plan in front of them”.
He said he would have the club tidied up soon.
“I’m actually getting quotes done to have it cleaned up, that will happen in the near future,” Mr Sanchez said.
The club shut last June in horror circumstances — it pleading guilty to 40 liquor, gaming and licensing offences and was fined more than $50,000.
The department asked CSKS Holdings, which acquired the lease from the club in 2011, to “show cause” as to why the lease should not be revoked.
It decided the company could retain the lease.
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