| From INNER WEST.Polish Club: Plans revealed for $32m makeover.It’s been visited by Olympic gold medallists, a pope and foreign dignitaries. But there are huge plans to turn a historic inner west club into eight storey housing development. Anton Rose, Inner West Courier, August 13, 2020. After months of infighting and legal drama plans have been released detailing the much maligned redevelopment of the Polish Club in Ashfield.
The $37 million project is set to turn the community hub founded by early inner west migrants into an eight-storey apartment building and registered club.
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The plans were lodged last month by the club after staving off a court challenge by a disgruntled member.
Mick Wykrota took the case to the Supreme Court arguing against the proposed redevelopment after claiming “associated club members” should not have been allowed to vote to approve the plans.
The plans for the club reveal it will house more than 100 inner west residents when complete.
The case was thrown out by Justice James Stevenson, who found it would have easily gone through regardless after 80 per cent of members voted in favour of the redevelopment.
The club is planning to build 91 apartments above a new, fully fitted out club premises on the ground floor if the project is approved.Some of those units will be public housing, according to documents tendered with the development application.
The club has been around since the 1960s and its redevelopment marks a significant chapter in its history.
The Polish club boasts more than 730 members and has a deep rooted history in the inner west.
The club was founded by Polish soldiers who fled their homeland in 1947 and needed somewhere to socialise in their new country.In 1967 a group of 200 members helped build and finance the club premises on Norton St.
Some of its more famous guests in its recent history includes Polish medallists in Sydney for the 2000 Olympics and Pope John Paul the Second.
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