AVI are currently recruiting and hope to sign up 50 local businesses as members for the 2016-17 year.

You can now identify members with the new window decal. Please support these businesses who have bought into your community.

After extensive consultation with Sydney Metro on the impact of laying power cables through Hampden Rd and Brand Street, we have been given assurances that construction time will be reduced from nine months to 4-6 weeks, mainly during the school holidays. They are planning a continuous flow of two-way traffic around the work site, with about eight car spaces blocked off at any one time.

AVI were very dismayed when Willoughby City Council again refused approval, at its meeting on 25 July 2016, of the Section 96AA modification application (DA-2014/391/A) for changes to the Land & Environment Court approval of the shop top housing development at 98-102 Hampden Road, Artarmon (the former Dry Cleaner, Real Estate Agent and Butcher shops) due to the height and scale exceeding development standards.

Local businesses are struggling with reduced foot traffic resulting from the empty shops.

Completion of the new commercial space will reinvigorate the community and regain investor confidence in the strip and must proceed ASAP.

Willoughby City Council has been consulted on further improving the streetscape in the Village by upgrading or repainting bins and furniture and installing better atmospheric lighting in Wilkes Avenue. AVI are also lobbying for a public toilet, ideally located next to the easy access lift to the railway station. AVI would support any reasonable moves to increase parking and traffic flows through the Village that improves customer convenience.

Our members wish to sincerely thank the residents for their loyalty for without your custom we cannot survive.

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