11 Ward Avenue Potts Point NSW 2011

I am a 20-year resident of Potts Point. I am a 44 year old male. I support this application. Potts Point needs all the nighttime diversification it can get and this kind of low impact development falls squarely under City of Sydney's OPEN Sydney Strategy, satisfying numerous desired outcomes of said strategy.

The objection raised by council seems trivial, to say the least. I am not a lawyer, but the owner's lawyers seem to make substantial points.

If any other lot owners are concerned, surely the owner can agree to maintain the common toilet; this is clearly in his interest or his patrons will go elsewhere.

Of course! What will help Kings Cross to 'diversify' is more bars, and more grog!! Didn't Council hire independent research to analyse what was happening in the Cross 10 years back, and they found it was *saturated* i.e. drowning in liquor outlets with the resultant social ramifications we're all too familiar with. No doubt I'll be labelled - what's the latest attack word? - a wowser, but I say No to this application because the last thing the Cross needs now is more grog. The patient is out of emergency and off the drip, thanks to the lockouts, and is recuperating well, judging by the thriving day and night scene - there are more 'For Lease' signs in Paddo and Bondi Junction than there are in the Cross these days. We need to remember that dark part of the Cross's history to avoid another *saturation*, before we flippantly start rubber-stamping approval for more grog outlets.