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Ok so why am I starting this thread you may ask ?????
It's about another crazy Development that has been approved by our N.S.W. Planning Minister Tony Kelly under 3A planning.
Now Col this is a surfing thread as it will have an impact upon a now not so secret spot these days called Hearns Lake where I have had the miss fortune of calling a home break for 20 years. On its day it would break better than Nth Narra but is such a fickled spot where you would need to watch it everyday to see where the sand is and how the the water from the creek to the north is running out and what the lake was doing re being open and closed.
A good thinking persons surf break and I have had times when you would have only 2 hrs in a day when it was on but worth it. Also had weeks when it would pump and mostly on my own but those days are over now but still get the odd day by yourself
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So the development >>>> a developer picked the land up cheap as it had approval for only 35 homes and I have no problem with that. When he got the approval from council for those homes he the went straight to the Planning Minister under 3A for 300 homes. It was granted conditional approval for 200 homes as the one's in the sand dunes where taken off the plan.
Now in the middle of the site is Hearns Lake and wet lands and if you have the time check this out and it will take a little time to download >>> http://www.coffsharbour.nsw.gov.au/reso ... _Study.pdf but it will give you a lot of info about the place.
The thing about this development is that it will require 3.6m of fill then each home must be built .5m above the fill. Now the fill will be higher than the exsisting homes at the southern end at Sandy Beach with several that flood now !!!!!
Given there are 62,400 homes on the Australian coast already at risk of inundation, how can anybody reasonably justify adding 200 more when every study shows the area as vulnerable.
The department has not applied due diligence to their own publication “The Mid North Coast Regional Strategy”, cited as the pre-eminent planning document for the Mid North Coast which states “future urban development will not be located in areas of high risk from natural hazards including sea level rise, coastal recession and rising water tables and flooding” that describes Hearnes Lake precisely.
Also Tony Kelly has also approved on a small parcel of land at Hearns Lake for 40 homes which Frank Sartor rejected as being to dense for the site. Then another DA was submitted for 20 homes to Kristina Keneally who rejected it on the same grounds but Tony Kelly now thinks it OK
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So we need your help by simply sending an email to Tony Kelly of your disapprove of this development to >>>>
The Hon Tony Kelly MLC
NSW Minister for Planning
Email – [email protected]
The more he gets the more he will listen so I'm just asking for no more than ten minutes of your time to email him and help save another surf spot from over development as our protest group has a meeting with the minister next week.
Thanks Johnno.