Marsfield Common 是两个社区组织 Eastwood Rugby 和 North Ryde RSL 提出的一项提案，旨在通过建造136座低层、多样化的住宅和一个新的公园，来复苏 TG Millner Field 场地，造福当地社区。
现在 TG Millner 橄榄球场的大部分土地都没有被利用起来，着实令人惋惜。这块私有场地面临着过度开发或衰落的风险。 Marsfield Common 可以通过吸引新的邻居、建造新的当地设施、融合新机会和新想法的方式，将已有社区与这块场地重新连接起来。
这项提案将包括：
建造132套低层和多样化的住宅。
利用场地15%面积新建一公顷的公园。
打造超过2000平方米的多项目游乐空间，造福全年龄段、不同身体素质的居民。
创建超过700平方米的多功能运动和休闲场地——排球、足球、篮球、羽毛球、乒乓球等。
额外种植570棵树，使场地树荫覆盖率达到65%。
通过向社区捐赠 500 万澳元建设可负担住房来回馈社会。
为了增加 City of Ryde 可负担住房的供应，已提议向市议会捐赠 500 万澳元，用于建设可负担住房。
还计划为 Ryde 市议会和当地社区打造一个大约一公顷的公园，其中包含超过2000平方米的多项目游乐空间，造福全年龄段、不同身体素质的居民，以及700平方米的多功能运动和休闲场地，可用于排球、足球、网球、篮球、羽毛球和乒乓球等运动。公园将占场地面积的15%。
为了拥有更凉爽的树荫，秉持着保护环境的目的，Marsfield Common 计划在整个场地种植至少570棵新树。这意味着场地的65%将被树荫覆盖，为该区域提供共享、舒适的自然环境，有更优质的“氧肺”来净化空气。
At the last Ryde Council meeting on August 27th, Mayor Trenton Brown tabled a Mayoral Minute against TG Millner that would destroy the value of this privately-owned asset and put North Ryde RSL’s members' services at risk.
Unfortunately, a large portion of the privately-owned TG Millner complex has fallen into disuse and is now at risk of further deterioration. The Marsfield Common planning proposal that was lodged in July 2024 to Ryde Council would have provided low-rise housing for 132+ families as well as $27 million in community and Council contributions, including a new 10,000m² public park, and an allocation of $6 million towards affordable housing and enhancement of local sporting facilities in Ryde. It was a community-minded proposal.
Instead, this land grab by stealth will make TG Millner close to worthless and will place North Ryde RSL Community Club in a perilous financial position.
Effective immediately, and after 75 years of continuous operation, all bookings from local and regional sports clubs have been cancelled, and the fields are now closed. The club cannot afford to continue the upkeep of a now financially unviable asset in the face of this threat to our future from Council and Mayor Brown.
The impacts of the Mayoral Minute stretch far beyond Marsfield Common. For the community, the impacts will be massive, particularly so during a cost-of-living crisis, and could mean an end to North Ryde RSL’s subsidised meals and entertainment, member services, ClubGrants – which totalled close to $700,000 this year, and ongoing support of local schools and community, charity and sporting organisations.
It has been made abundantly clear that Ryde Council does not have the funds or State-Government support to compulsorily acquire TG Millner. Mayor Brown - who has made no secret of his intention to compulsorily acquire TG Millner at whatever the cost to Council, the community and our Clubs - is using his position to seize our private land.
As the owners of TG Millner, North Ryde RSL is now in a position where the future of the Club and the vast contribution that we have made to the community since the 1950s is in serious jeopardy due to the political actions of one man – potentially bankrupting the very Club that has kept TG Millner alive for so many years.
We urge you to contact Ryde Councillors in regard to this decision and the future of TG Millner and North Ryde RSL; their details are available on the Ryde Council website.
