590-602 New Canterbury Road, Hurlstone Park NSW

This is an interesting DA as the owners have put in an application to move the liquor licence to a new site in Campsie. Slim Dusty sang of a pub with no beer, who shall have the rights to a hotel with no booze?

This venue is an icon of the area. Do we simply want to bulldoze over this all in the name of progress too? I have been to cities that destroyed their heritage for modern apartments and buildings. How can we stop this happening in Sydney?

And right on the cnr of New Canterbury Rd and Duntroon Sts, Speedway development down the road, the proposed Caltex site, across the other side of New Canterbury Rd, where will it end? As requested previously, residents need to see from council environmental and other studies factoring in ALL proposed sites along that stretch of New Canterbury Rd. Now council have another site to consider.....will they add this in their big picture study. Or just consider it in isolation?

"the owners have put in an application to move the liquor licence to a new site in Campsie"

Where did you read that?

I used to live in this area, not many pubs around at all, but an abundance of apartments, I wouldn't want to live on a main arterial road in an apartment when some of Sydney's cheapest apartments are found in this area in quieter streets.

Hi Craig,

Have a look at the office of gaming and liquor site:

http://www.ilga.nsw.gov.au/liquor/application-noticeboard?collection=ilga-lan&query=Hurlstone&meta_P=&meta_L=&meta_t=&meta_T=&meta_Z=&dp_from=&dp_to=&scd_from=&scd_to=

It shows the three applications to move Grumpys licences to Campsie. Do the current owners really intend to put another hotel back on this site while they are applying to move its licences?

Does anyone know when this DA closes?

An icon of the area, a meeting place in the community, one of very few. There are more developments than the area can cope with, on either side of this property; across the road; up and down both sides. Why not maintain the heritage of a building that has stood since 1931, something of meaning to the area, of value to the community, a place that has been shared among generations in the area. Leave some history in Hurlstone Park. Protect this property PLEASE. If anything it should be heritage listed but somehow slipped off the Council's radar, all too conveniently. Make good on it now Canterbury Council, include the Hurlstone Park Hotel in your heritage list.

Why do we need another 48 residential apartments along New Canterbury Rd in place of the existing Hurlstone Park Hotel, which is a landmark in the area? Please conserve some heritage of this area and disallow the DA application to tear down this unique part of Hurlstone Park's history. This is one of very few pubs remaining in this area, please preserve it and add it to your list of heritage properties.

Canterbury Council is becoming an area soon to be overrun with units. Take a look at all the unit blocks being built along Canterbury Rd and the Cooks River precinct, as well as the huge complex of Clemton Park Village on the old Sunbeam factory site. Has Canterbury Council taken into consideration the massive increase in road traffic that these high density residential areas inflict on already narrow and busy local streets and main roads? I really don't think so.

From a purely sentimental point of view, I would be very sad to see this site redeveloped for yet more apartments/mixed retail. My grandfather Jack Flitcroft was the first licensee of the Hurlstone Park Hotel in 1931, followed by my father John. I and most of my six siblings would have been conceived there and I lived there until I was 16 (when we sold the licence and moved to the St Leonards Hotel (also since redeveloped with a tavern below and offices above). The medium-density imperative that most councils seem driven by is negatively changing the face of so many Sydney suburbs. The HPH is a handsome building and, from the comments above, seems to be of value to local residents. I would be very happy to see it retained.