In a two-week period late last year, the Australian Turf Club went from insisting there was “definitely no plan” to relinquish Rosehill Racecourse to approaching the government with a plan to build 25,000 new homes.
The Australian Turf Club told the Minns government that Rosehill Racecourse was one of its “premier” racetracks and insisted there was “definitely no plan” to relinquish it for housing only a fortnight before proposing to do exactly that.
Details of the October 25 meeting reveal that the ATC had engaged consultants to prepare plans for a redevelopment of Rosehill which would have seen about 3,000 homes built surrounding the track. Despite that, the ATC’s position appears to have changed quickly after a meeting with NSW Premier Chris Minns on October 30.
“From September last year it was evident that the ATC were looking at options for development in addition to racing at both Rosehill and Canterbury and if any site were going to be fully redeveloped for housing, it was Canterbury that was on the table from the ATC’s perspective,” he said.Under the state’s unsolicited proposals guidelines the government must be approached with an idea which it has “not requested” for it to qualify.
It said it would not have been “the appropriate forum and would not have been correct protocol to raise any other potential plans”.
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