🍺 PUB TEST: Should Rosehill Racecourse Be Sold To Make Way For Houses?

Does selling Rosehill Racecourse to make way for more housing pass the pub test?

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
And Amanda jam Nation.

Speaker 2 (00:04):
Matters to the pub test, selling rose Hill Racecourse for
housing passed the.

Speaker 1 (00:08):
Pub to This controversial proposal has divided the community and
the racing industry. It's being decided today they're going to sell.
They want to sell rose Hill Racecourse for five billion
dollars to make away from mini city twenty five thousand
homes in a metro.

Speaker 2 (00:21):
They're worried that if they don't sell it now, if
they wait, say ten years, it won't be worse worth
five billion dollars because the metro would have come and gone.

Speaker 1 (00:29):
They can't build that metro. You can't put that metro
in later. And if you make a smaller housing community,
you've stuff that you've got to do it all at once.

Speaker 2 (00:35):
I appreciate rose Hill's history, filap Race there, macam Diva
Race there, but and I'm not a racing officio, I
don't really care.

Speaker 1 (00:44):
It care about eight hundred million dollars is going to
be investigating.

Speaker 2 (00:46):
We lost things like speedways, Liverpool Speedway, Paramounta Speedway. You
know they're ones that went further afield. There's going to
be Warwick Farm. There's a lot of houses there. We
are build a lot of houses there. We do have
a house in but in a close proximity to the
city as well. You know, everyone just doesn't have to
go and live.

Speaker 1 (01:04):
Out in wood Wall.

Speaker 2 (01:05):
You know, there should be the dream of young people
thirty to forty year old be able to buy a
house in the environs of Sydney in the basin.

Speaker 1 (01:12):
Well. The vote is happening today selling rosa rescourse for housing.
Does it pass the pub test?

Speaker 3 (01:17):
Yeah? No, no good at all.

Speaker 4 (01:19):
There's too many people in the area now.

Speaker 3 (01:20):
I work actually on the site down there. It should
be turned into a park of forests. Going back to nature.

Speaker 4 (01:26):
Doesn't pass a pub test. There's thousands of Housing Commission
houses that are empty. There's a bullet train, there's so
many other things we can do. There's so much land
along that metro corridor that we could fill up with houses,
but they're looking to get a cheap way to get
make money. So it doesn't pass a pub testimate it's.

Speaker 3 (01:43):
That much empty land out where. Why would they off
more houses in that area where it is compacted with
people as it is.

Speaker 4 (01:52):
Yes, sell it off. There's already three other racecourses in
the Metro area. Bus one in Halsbury and the Metro
is already there outside of the race course. What is it
with this government?

Speaker 3 (02:02):
The second they get a pacel of land, they've got
to fill it off instead of.

Speaker 4 (02:06):
Just changing into units. How about we put more parks
and things for families to go and play with tonight. No,
it doesn't park the pub ject.

Speaker 1 (02:13):
Althose callers seemed to a certain age right thing. They
probably already have their established homes themselves. But younger people
trying to get into the market, where are they going
to do.

Speaker 2 (02:21):
The National Park? Imagine the houses you put in the National.

Speaker 1 (02:24):
Oh now you're thinking Centennial Park. Get rid of them.
Thank you for all your calls, One step at a time.