Eleanor Duncan Aboriginal Services has lodged a development application with Central Coast Council to establish a group home at Summerland Point.
The service provider for medical, health and wellbeing programs for Central Coast Indigenous people is planning to invest nearly $1.7M into the urgently needed group home project at 30 Summerland Rd, opposite Naroo Ave.
Previously the 2.63ha site was an educational establishment and at present it contains various dwellings, classroom-type structures, sheds, hardstand surfaces, a basketball court and dam.
The development proposal includes the retention and repurpose of the existing seven-bedroom dwelling to provide a permanent residence.
An additional eight bedrooms for a permanent and or transitional group home will be provided by way of the installation of moveable dwellings.
The existing four-bedroom dwelling will be retained and used as ancillary offices and consulting rooms which will provide support services and allied health programs to the residents of the group home.
Offices and consulting rooms will be used for the physical, social, cultural and intellectual development and welfare of residents only and will not be offered to the broader community.
Six structures will be demolished including two existing sheds, four structures historically used as classrooms, and the basketball court.
Two other sheds will be relocated and two unhabitable buildings will be used for storage.
Other work on-site to bring the project up to standard will include a new on-site sewer management system, extension and connection of services, site earthworks, pathways, carparks, driveways, a new internal bushfire access trail and landscaping.
This town already boasts enough troubled children whose parents show little or no remorse for the havoc they cause within the town. We do not need to build a well being centre here to invite more. There is no police presence here with a two way road in and out. This idea is absolutely ridiculous
We do not need this in our quiet out if the way area. We only have enough services for our community. To have drug and alcohol rehabilitation so near a sporties club and we have many young families living in the area. There is only a sparse bus service, one doctor surgery and a few small shops. These places need to be located in areas that are set up to cope with what is required. I am totally against this. The property values will decline just as they are starting to move again, not that we are looking at selling.
No thank you. I do not wish to live across the road from this facility. It will bring nothing but trouble to our quiet community as these centres ALWAYS attract. There are plenty of out of the way places for this type of business to be housed that won’t impact like this will in this location.
This will prove to be exceptionally detrimental to the small community that resides in Summerland Point. There are no police, ambulance, medical or transportation services in this location which will place extreme strain and disruption to this community if the project is given approval. This location is not suitable for this purpose and it should be relocated to an area in close proximity to the above listed services for the benefit of the group home and the community. The isolation of this location will prove to be a hindrance to the small young family based community and will drastically negatively impact all who reside in this location and will not provide an adequate location for the group home residents.
I have not seen any living in Summerland Point. I object to this happening to our quiet suburb.
The club is not far away and it will make this town not a safe place to live.
This place should be put where the aboriginal population is. What about all the other homeless people living around Summerland Point. There is one living in the park that has been living there for about 15 years.
Would love for you to report on the communities misunderstanding of this application and concerns for what it brings to our quiet, small family, low resourced community
absolutely agree
I do not want a drug rehabilitation group homes in my home area of Summerland point. They were given land closer to the highway let them build there. I do not the crime and violence rate to grow here. If it so great put them in Terrigal or Gosford not in my back yard.
Our very small community does not have the infrastructure in place to cope with such a development.
#not in our backyard
Worst idea ever, what knuckle head thought this was a good idea.
There are no positives in housing these kind of people in this area.
Try somewhere with public transport, a decent shopping complex and a police station nearby. You literally need a car to get everywhere, the occupants no doubt won’t have a license and or car.
The acreages in this suburb are not allowed to build a second dwelling on their property, so how are these people allowed to build multiple dwellings. Why is there one rule for residents and outsiders allowed to come in and do as they like.
The location is too isolated and far from essential services, hindering the group home residents and the community.
There is potential for the group home to disrupt the quiet and family-oriented atmosphere of Summerland Point.
There’s a fear that the group home will attract unwanted attention and potentially lead to an increase in crime and violence in the area.
Our community is seen as lacking the infrastructure (e.g., medical services, schools) to adequately support a group home and its residents.
The group home be placed in a location with more resources, such as a more developed area or a location closer to the highway.
I worry the group home will displace existing residents and that the existing homeless population should be addressed first. There is huge amount of crime involving indigeous youths now. There will be dozens of children/teenagers up to the age of 18 wandering our streets. I feel threatened.
As this is originally Darkinjung land I believe the application is appropriate and helpful for our indigenous community. If Summerland Point residents are aware of current homeless people in their area, perhaps they as a community are willing to help them. The anticipated upgrades on the property will certainly not be detrimental to the place. The application is clear and straight forward. The remarks posted here show ‘what if fears’ without any evidence that these concerns would be the case. The youth who wander our streets currently aren’t indigenous and cause huge damages and crime has risen in the last 5 years. I do not believe Eleanor Duncan would present anything to deliberately disturb Summerland Point any more than the existing amount.
My main concern is the fact that approvals for home estates has damaged our lakeside peninsular far beyond acceptable value because of the lack of infrastructure. Stop approving them until you fix the roads and flooding.
This post is accurate.
This is disgusting moving everyone out of Wyong to a community with limited public transport, no local police on hand
Relocate it to Gosford or leave at Wyong near all resources.
This is very disturbing
We have young children who walk and play right next to this proposed facility.
There is limited to no public transport in the area.
These places are definitely needed and do help but the town of summerland point is no equipped to handle this development.
This will cause nothing but trouble for a small local town with limited infrastructure.
I urge you to reconsider this immediately and find a more appropriate area to build this facility.
All these replies are uneducated and uninformed opinions and are driven by fear.
If this was investigated, it would be clear that all aspects have been covered.
The risk of taking community supports is of no more risk than the ongoing housing being built in the community. This establishment would have its own measures for security and health services to service the individuals located at this site and they would likely have supports present to assist. The concept that it will bring antisocial behaviour to the community is not only an assumption but also the people that would be in these houses would be getting assistance. There is plenty of the people in the community that are not getting the help and engage with substance use and criminal behaviours already, this much needed establishment would not introduce this to the community.
The discussion about security and lack of emergency services would be mitigated with the use of security onsite and trained staff in first aid and mental health training. The whole community manage without a hospital or police station closely located and we all manage this risk.
This is a much-needed service and there are not enough services or accommodation options on the coast to support vulnerable people. There will always be objections to these proposals based on the ‘what ifs’ but the coast is never going to be able to appropriately support its residents if people continue to protest to the proposals.