Residents object to Tighes Hill development
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Tighes Hill residents are urging the Newcastle council to reject plans for a massive new industrial development in the inner-city suburb.
Templar Tighes Hill wants to build more than 40 industrial units on former state rail land at Elizabeth Street, near Throsby Creek.
Residents' spokesman John Sutton says the community is objecting to the scale of the development as well as noise and traffic issues.
"There's real concern about the traffic, the noise, the scale and intensity of the development, about its visual aspects, especially its impact on both public and private views," he said.
"I guess the key concern I have about it [is that it] seems totally out of kilter with the strategic direction that the council and the community have had for Tighes Hill over many, many years."
