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A community Celebrates As Oval Car Park finally Stopped

11/9/2016

Hundreds turned up to share stories when Good For Manly & Save Manly Oval Alliance hosted a celebration to mark the end of a four year fight to stop a car park being built under Manly Oval.

It took the new Administrator of the Northern Beaches Council to finally pull the plug on the Manly2015 Plan.

Watch the short slide show below and share some of the highlights of the campaign which demonstrated community power at its best.

3 Comments

Dirk Nagel

19/9/2016 07:10:22 am

Great work Candy and Good for Manly.

Now is the time to redirect the communities fury at the closure of the Manly Cinema!!!!

Some thing surely can be done to reclaim this important facility for the Manly community!

Crowd funding?
How much will it take to wrestle back the Cinema from the Hong Kong owner?

Candy Bingham

19/9/2016 10:22:05 am

Thanks for your comment about the Manly Cinema. Yes, we all want it, but in fact its out of the hands of the community.

The purpose-built building is owned by a Chinese businesswoman who has never visited Australia. There have been numerous attempts by many to contact her regarding leasing/buying the site to re-instate the cinema. She is simply not contactable. Very frustrating! Perhaps another site needs to be found.

Peter Nash

19/9/2016 08:28:24 am

This is the result of a massive effort by many people who should all be congratulated. It also highlights what could have happened when a council becomes dominated by one political party; in future, let us ensure that this does not happen again.

A community Celebrates As Oval Car Park finally Stopped

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