Rhodes. Work on Meriton block halted

Meriton has stopped work on a 700-apartment block on a fomer industrial site, at Rhodes, because the Health Department and Canada Bay Council refuse to allow any one to move in. Some 300 apartments have been built and another 400 are planned A Meriton spokesman, who said the company had spent more than $40 million getting rid of toxic substances on the site, believed NSW Health’s concerns partly relate to a neighbouring development on the former Union Carbide site.