Camellia has been dominated by heavy industry for decades.Parramatta lord mayor Bob Dwyer said the council would be "very disappointed" if the prison was built at Camellia, on the banks of the Parramatta River, because it had been working for years on ways to transform a suburb that had suffered industrial contamination.
"We have got our own plans for Camellia in terms of housing about 20,000 people next to the river and putting advanced manufacturing in that area," he said. "That area on the river is the last part of the Parramatta River that hasn't been cleaned up."An area to the east of James Ruse Drive between Rosehill Racecourse and the Parramatta River has been earmarked for a town centre for Camellia.
"We have got a very clear vision. We want that area [at Camellia] cleaned up so we can house people. By putting a jail there, it throws everything into an unknown future," he said."It is prime waterfront area with great potential but we are getting conflicting messages from government. If you build a jail there, who is going to pay to clean up all of that contaminated area?"
The Opposition will press the government to release sensitive documents about the prison plans when Parliament resumes early next year by using the upper house's "call for papers" powers.Labor planning spokesman Adam Searle said the government needed to "come clean" on its plans for a prison at Camellia so the community could have an informed debate on the matter.
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Mattonews This is ground so contaminated with crude oil, solvents, asbestos, fine carbon particles and carcinogenic chemicals that no-one in their right mind would ever want to be near it.
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