This disgusting 250+ apartment complex at Woree, with convenient Service Station plonked in the middle of the property, is a perfectly designed ghetto, circa 2010.
GlenCorp have recently installed some finishing touches, including a new sign. This is made up of a stock image they stole from the Daintree Image and Tourist Library, along with two Frangipani flowers and a Times Roman typeface title. Udo's 3 year old must have put this logo together with crayons at kindergarten last month. I bet he's got the original stuck on his fridge door at home.
The cheek to call this "City Waters", when the previous waterway that existed on the former caravan and camping site now has around 200 ton of concrete on top of it!
The only resemblance to its name will be when the internal pathways flood.
Soon there'll be 250+ families, couples and former councillors living in this ghetto, with no natural airflow, highly dependant on air cons. What were they thinking when they approved this social experiment? I know, they were thinking that it was only a few weeks till they build the same one at Clifton Beach!
Bestowing the title "planner" on some Council staff is an insult to the English language, let alone themselves.
Shitty Waters indeed.
Friday, February 29, 2008
Shitty Waters
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Where are the play areas for young children? The developers are so hungry for money, they ignore the basic and RIGHTFUL needs of children, the right for an exercise area. Young couples can only afford to buy these GROSSLY over-priced chicken coops, so many children will be forced to live in them. Oh, the developers will put in a "swimming pool" and "bar'b'que" area complete with hundreds of metres of concrete, yet they overlook the basic needs of children. And what has the City Council done? FUCK ALL!!
Jesus H. Christ, it looks like the "house of horrors"! How about the one Hedley built next to Parramatta State School? (I call it WORMWOOD). It bears a pretty grim resemblance to some of London's infamous old "workhouses".
And what about the slumyards at Redlynch? The one with a RAILWAY LINE running right smack in the middle of them. How many little kids will end up cut in half over the next few years?
Michael, you need to run a "competition" on this blog, putting up some of the developers monstrosities, and asking readers to name them.
I hereby name the Hedley Parramatta Park monstrosity, "SWAMPWORM PRISON HOUSE"
No-one steal it!!!
PS Michael, you can supply the prize for the winner!
ROFL, so we have three:-
SHITTY WATERS at Woree
SWAMPWORM HOUSE at Parramatta Park
RAILTRAK CHICKEN BRONX at Redlynch ??
Keep going....
A friend of mine suggested you just might be able to see the water if you stood on the roof
Here are some more suggestions:
The Double Droolin Dollar Dump
The Swingless Cat-hole
Sweatbox Palace
Dengue Dumpments
Shaks by the Traks
The Mouse House
Sheeesh, this could get very creative.
The one at Clifton Beach, on Deadmans Creek could be called:
Deadmans Coffin
Thanks to Rob Pyne in todays Cairns Post we now see Council is planning to turn the old Drive-in sight at Woree into more of the same unit multiplex as Shitty Waters, only bigger. YAH!!
Used to be DRIVE-IN MOVIES now I have renamed it and it shall be known from this day forth as DRIVE-BY(shooting)MEADOWS.
Wasn't that supposed to be a backpacker accomodation village?
If you stand out on your balcony at Shitty Waters with a nice "fresh" south-eastly blowing you might be lucky enough to catch some of the city poos, sorry, I mean city views from your balcony.
Generation Y has no choice but to live here and WE DONT CARE.
All we want are 4 walls and a roof to keep the Playstation/Xbox/Plasma screen dry.
It's you baby boomers living on 800m2 alotments with 70/80/90's homes, enjoying both the inflated prices and your parent's inheritence that are whinging.
That god the developers understand and care about us.
You lot have priced us right out of the market.
that BP servo has an LPG tank on its site. How can such a resdiential development be legal. I know through experience that in NSW at least such a situation would be illegal. How can all those people being living so close to an LPG tank, is this is legal in Queensland? Are residents allowed to smoke at the complex?
Factman, aka kbcumbreath - you such a f**king dikwad!
Factman you are right, us generation Y's cant afford to get into the market thank god for hotboxes like these.... Now if only I could afford to pay the electricity bill I could get my aircon back on 24/7 and cool down a bit....
I passed Shitty Waters this morning, while driving two dear little old ladies home (from Church.) "Ohhh dear," said one little old sweetheart, "Isn't that just a dreadful building. I pity the poor young people who have to live in that!"
"Yes", said the other one, "and where are the play areas for the kiddies? Don't these builders think about the little kiddies?"
(Both ladies were 75 plus).
I didn't say anything.......
Though Factman does not convey himself wonderfully here, there is logic in what he is trying to say (whether it be fishing for self-amusement or not). Finding the balance between affordable housing and optimal urban design is one of the hardest contemporary challenges facing planners in our beautiful corner of the world.
Often, many (vocal) members of the public can be shortsighted when considering provisions for "affordable housing". NIMBY (Not-in-my-backyard) syndrome is common, where we all, myself included, tell ourselves we agree with providing cheaper and diverse housing options... but that such housing should be located in what WE deem suitable areas. Translation - more intense development belongs in the 'M-suburbs', Parramatta Park etc. Out-of-sight, out-of-mind.
Our flaws aside however, making provisions for affordable housing is not (ever) a justification for poor planning and urban design!
AMCORD and New Urbanism are too often the concepts used by developers and planners alike to hang their hats on. The issue here is that very few developers actually understand these concepts nor the principles they are based on (we won't touch there effectiveness in the tropics here!).
Factman, the reason the community reacts with such passion to the construction of these dwellings is symbolic of a greater concern. That is, not simply a fear that the character of places they value is being lost. But moreover, that as comments like yours further demonstrate, the people charged with the responsibility of ensuring the things valued about our city are preserved and enhanced, have an alarming level of disinterest in exactly that. The thought that such transgression will continue into the future is where I believe the real concern lies!
Apologies for the essay.
Rumour is that Udo has sold 80 per cent of these units to the housing department for public housing.
Instant slum.
Too bad for the other 20 per cent of investors who bought off the plan and will now see their property prices plummet.
I also heard that the Department of Housing bought a lot of units in "Shitty Waters" aka "Sweatbox Palace", ditto "Swampworm Flats" at Parramatta. Can anyone confirm?
factman, aka kbcumbreath, u r such a f**kingh dikwad!!! Really u r!
Stop calling it shitty waters guys we live here and i like the ambience.
You will rue you said that with the first power outage in summer.
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