Let's think long-term

I would really like to see NO more cheap high density housing developments in the area. Particularly in White Bay. THe area is already crowded, and being a peninsula with no through traffic, this leads to congestion and other problems.

It would be a tragedy if we just got another park and cycle pathway – like the one dog walkers and bike riders are squabbling about over at Glebe. Deep water harbours like this are rare so close to the CBD and tourist precincts. It should be used for maritime activity of some sort. Sadly, I guess the real working harbour is a lost cause, but it is environmentally crazy to have to truck our cars and cargo back to Sydney from Port Kembla and other far away ports.

Please, please keep the big ships coming in – even if only cruise boats. They are majestic to watch and stirring to the soul.

If there is an "Industrial Heritage" reason to preserve the brickwork shell of the White Bay Power Station then at least lets get rid of those two unsightly metal stacks and the rusted on corrugated shacks and the old coal loading ramp before they fall down and lets change the building’s profile to a better looking outline to look at. When I open the blinds in my bedroom every morning I look out to an eyesore - if it's not Heritage listed then let’s knock it down tomorrow!

The building or area could be converted into a multi-story “Park & Ride” more…

Sometime in the future, when people really advance, the Harbour will be a marine park. There will be no motorised vessels, just passive powered craft ambling between the mangroves, schools of fish, pelicans and a myriad of water birds. There will be no cars. There will be no polluting industry, just community vegetable gardens. Kangaroos and wallabies will graze on the acres of parkland (dogs will be a thing of the past). Fresh water will be clean and free, as it should, and children will again run barefoot without a care and life will be good for all (It did say to "think long term")

I would not want to see any of the following:

- another Darling Harbour tourist trap

- large scale commerical/business premises

- masses of shoddy high-rise residential tenements

- a cruise ship terminal - I can't think of anything more stupid than putting a cruise ship terminal this far from the CBD, when there is a perfectly good spot in Barangaroo, that was part of the original plan

I think it's inevitable it will be a mix of residential, parkland and commercial activity - the question is what mix?

No more barren treeless parks, no more self serving demands for water views from already rich property owners, no more empty tracks for cyclists, no political cowardice!

The worst possible outcome would be another Darling Harbour type retail and tourist development. If there is to be further residential development, it should be characterised by innovative and sustainable design not the ugly concentration of cheap apartment blocks we have seen so much of in recent years. Sydney desperately needs more open space and if more foreshore bushland can be recreated future generations will be forever grateful! I am also a big supporter of retaining a working harbour - it is very much part of the character of Sydney. Recreational boating should be encouraged with preference to rowing, paddling and sailing over motor boats. Large marinas for power boats should definitely not be a part of this area. I would also like to encourage a space for artists and creative people to live, work and sell their products in this area and an area for young people to meet and hang out.

i would hate to see the old power station be nocked down. i Think it could be turned into a shopping center with a real difference, you can take the design into such avant-garde territory simply because of the unique nature of the building, we could end up with something that is both functional, serves the community and acts as a tourist type thing to see.

Or maybe it could even be a government run space for artist to create and display work and musicians to write and preform, why not give our youth a place to gather that isn't about drugs, drinking, gambling or sport, but about creativity and invention.

i think the biggest tragedy would be if this large space became just another park or residential development, lets get creative in australia and do something new and daring!

I really, really, don't want to see the area used to increase road space. We all know that plans for the area include the M4 east extension, and truck routes to the airport. Allocating space to more roads is now known to generate more congestion than it solves, and this land is too valuable to hand over to cars. However much people think that roads are the most revenue generating thing in a city, they are not, it is uses that grow human capital that have the most value, like quality housing, shared spaces and stuff that brings opportunities to live locally.

The Cooks River to Iron Cove Bay Greenway project along the Hawthorne canal needs to get built now, and the Bays Precinct offers an amazing opportunity to join it to the Anzac Bridge path.

This would mean you could walk and cycle from thousands of homes in the inner west to the city and other suburbs in a safe, traffic free, level, green, environment if it was enacted fully.

No more empty parks, the land is too valuable to waste on dogs and a tiny minority of cyclists – who don't respect anyones wishes except their own.

I've posted elsewhere that I'd like a working, deep water harbour and/or residential and commercial development, somewhere that my children could go on living when they leave home . The way things are going, they will never be able to afford it around here. Housing is so scarce and hence expensive.

Some of the people who have commented here would prefer to keep it that way. That's very selfish and short sighted.

And I agree with some of the other postings, this land should NOT be used to win the next election.

That's what happened at Ballast Point and Callan Park. Millions wasted in lost opportunities. And it hasn't worked either, Labor WILL lose this seat.

Where is the old Glebe Island Bridge? It has been deliberately brushed out of the aerial photo.Put it back! This shows the lack of honesty and integrity of the HFA. The Bridge is an engineering item of heritage, and should be restored and used for light rail, pedestrian and cycle access. Stop storage of power boats and power boats creating wash, as this threatens the rowers and dragon boats, traditional users of the bays.

i would like to see a development similar to the corso in Manly, and the rest developed into parkland. This means lots of small developments, not one developer doing the whole lot!