The facility would operate 24 hours a day,seven days a week,with as many as 182 truck movements per hour.
Planning bureaucrats are floating a solution to accommodate the area for industrial and recreational uses - if the concrete batching plant wins approval,the state government will consider building an “elevated” park on top.
“The whole thing beggars belief,” said Pyrmont resident Christopher Levy.
The Department of Planning,Industry and Environment supports the $22 million proposal from Hanson Australia to shift its concrete plant to Glebe Island,opposite homes at Pyrmont.
Hanson’s former concrete batching plant at the head of Blackwattle Bay has been demolished in recent months after the site was claimed for the government’s $750 million project to relocate the Sydney Fish Market.
Opponents say plans to ramp up industrial operations on Glebe Island are at odds with the government’s own ambition totransform the disused White Bay area into a 24-hour cultural and entertainment precinct with a tech hub,apartments and waterfront parks alongside the future Metro rail station.