Revealed: New images show Macquarie Point Stadium impact on Hobart’s Cenotaph
Images have been releases showing the impact of the proposed Macquarie Point AFL stadium on Hobart’s Cenotaph.
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UPDATED 11am: The Macquarie Point Development Corporation has released images showing the visual impact of the proposed Macquarie Point Stadium on the Hobart Cenotaph.
The three images were uploaded to the Mac Point website.
“These renders were created from positions selected by RSL Tasmania,” it notes.
EARLIER: Premier Jeremy Rockliff has stonewalled a request to release more information on the proposed Macquarie Point stadium’s impact on the Hobart Cenotaph.
The government has produced a series of architectural renders showing the proposed AFL stadium from various angles — but none showing how it will look from the Cenotaph nearby.
The RSL has raised concerns the sporting venue will overshadow a sacred site commemorating the nation’s war dead.
The veterans’s organisation wants laws to protect the site.
Independent member for Clark Kristie Johnston asked the Premier to release more images during Question Time on Wednesday.
“With great fanfare earlier this month, your government and Macquarie Point Development Corporation released visualisations of the stadium 1.0 design,” she said.
“Notably, however, in all of the visualisations released, none showed how the planned stadium would appear from the Cenotaph or how it would impact the sight lines.
“Will you come clean with the RSL and Tasmanians and release visualisations which show honestly the impact of your stadium on the Cenotaph?”
Mr Rockliff did not address the question.
“Firstly, I want to acknowledge the importance of the Cenotaph as a place of remembrance. Tasmanians have a proud and distinguished history of military service, with over 17,500 veterans, ex-service and serving personnel living in this state. Our government and our Minister for Veterans Affairs certainly respect our veterans, as I do, and the sacrifices they made for the freedoms that we have to enjoy, including the freedoms that we have in this place for asking questions and keeping governments to account.
“I want to thank very much our minister for meeting with the RSL President, Mr Barry Quinn, and the CEO, Mr. John Hardy, just last Friday.
“I understand that they were productive discussions.
“As I have said, all along the way we will have very productive discussions with the RSL, very good consultation, understand and respect their views to ensure that any visual impacts can be mitigated as we work with them on a Macquarie Point precinct redevelopment that we can all be very proud of.”
Mr Rockliff said the government would meet with the RSL this month.
Ms Johnston said she was unsatisfied with the Premier’s response.
“I called on the Premier to come clean with the RSL and Tasmanians and release visualisations which show honestly the impact of his stadium on the Cenotaph. He refused,” she said.
“Why won’t the Premier release visualisations of the Macquarie Point stadium’s impact on the Cenotaph?
“There are two possible reasons. Firstly, it may be because he does not have them. If that’s the case it further shows the woeful state of this development and a gross incompetency;
“Or secondly, it may be that he has them and does not want people to see them, because this stadium will be an eyesore that trashes the sanctity of the Cenotaph.
“What is worse? Incompetency or secrecy?”
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