A renewed proposal for 22 warehouse units in Tuggerah has been redesigned to consider flood impacts and to provide more efficient use of the site.
Localised flooding occurs along the site at 57-59 Gavenlock Rd in the Tuggerah Industrial Area because the in-ground drainage infrastructure is under capacity in storm events and run-off is conveyed by the road network through other properties.
A Flood Impact Study was conducted to determine how the proposed development could be built without any adverse impact on flood behaviour across the floodplain and specifically in the surrounding vicinity of the site.
There is a creek along the northern boundary and a small area of densely vegetated swampy marsh adjoining the rear eastern boundary will remain for its drainage function.
The development application (1827/2022) to demolish existing structures and construct 22 warehouse units in two separate buildings is on public exhibition and Central Coast Council will receive submissions until Friday, August 26.
Meanwhile, Council is also considering a Torrens title subdivision proposal for 15 industrial lots at 555 Bushells Ridge Rd.
Lots will range in size from 0.224ha to 2.14ha with access via a new T-intersection off Bushells Ridge Rd.
The property is about 90m south of the Gorokan Rd intersection in the Bushells Ridge Industrial Precinct, on the border of Central Coast and Lake Macquarie council areas.
It is opposite the Wyee Paper Subdivision where 199 residential lots are planned but cannot be developed yet as they are not serviced, although the project is well underway by Lake Macquarie Council.
Other nearby residential development, Radcliffe Wyee Estate, already has several hundred homes and will ultimately comprise about 850.
Initially the industrial subdivision was for 29 smaller lots but that has been amended to 15 larger lots in order to provide onsite sewer management systems and rainwater tanks to each lot.
Several meetings have taken place with both Central Coast and Lake Macquarie councils and Hunter Water Corporation to find medium to long term solutions for provision of reticulated water to the site, however, this depends on residential development through either the Wyee Paper Subdivision or Radcliffe estate.
The most likely water source will be via a water main connection once the new water reservoir is built on the northern side of Bushells Ridge Rd.
There is high demand for employment generating land in the north of the Central Coast region and although Bushells Ridge Precinct has been zoned industrial for many years there is still a large portion of the land undeveloped because of environmental constraints.
As of January 2020, the NSW Employment Lands Development Monitor recorded 524.2ha out of the total 605.2ha of the Bushells Ridge Precinct as being undeveloped.
This property at 555 Bushells Ridge Rd is one of the only parcels of land within the precinct that is relatively unconstrained and able to be developed immediately.
Although most of the site is cleared, a 10m-wide biodiversity corridor will remain along the western boundary.
Public submissions on the development application ((1826/2022) will be received by Central Coast Council until Friday, September 2.
Sue Murray