Residents have only until Tuesday, April 16, to make a submission on a 288-lot subdivision proposed for Lake Munmorah.
The development application (DA) lodged with Central Coast Council consists of 283 residential allotments, two drainage reserves, two conservation areas and a park on land located at 285-325 Pacific Hwy, Lake Munmorah.
The State Government has recently allocated a number of biodiversity credits needed that will allow the land to be developed.
See the notice at https://gazette.legislation.nsw.gov.au/so/download.w3p…
A State Planning Agreement has been negotiated which would require: upgrade of the Pacific Hwy/Kangaroo Ave intersection to allow only left in / left out vehicle movements to be completed prior to the issue of the Subdivision Certificate for the first lot created; and upgrade of the Pacific Hwy/Tall Timbers Rd signalised intersection to increase capacity to cater for the additional traffic volumes.
The proposal has attracted one submission so far.
The resident says all authorities turn a blind eye to the potential cumulative impacts each DA will have on the immediate region in the near future.
“They ignore the cumulative impacts of population increase impacts having this one particular proposal in Lake Munmorah, increasing by a staggering 17% with just one housing estate,” the submission says.
“This proposal is only five kilometres from Vales Point Power Station and its ash dams.
“NSW Government inquiries, the United Nations, local doctors and the community have seen the health of the region deteriorating with cancers, chronic asthma and other respiratory diseases.
“The region is simply a toxic time bomb waiting to explode with poor air quality for both PM2.5 & PM10 particles.”
The objector says this DA, along with many more developments, will turn the region from a semi-rural aspect into a high density housing ghetto and offers a photo as an example.
You can see the plans on the council website:
1/ Search ‘Central Coast Council track a development’.
2/ Click on the “E-planning portal” link in the first sentence on that page.
3/ Click on Applications on exhibition and hit next.
4/ Scroll through the DAs currently on public exhibition and note the suburbs until you get to Lake Munmorah and
5/ Click on the DA number: DA/161/2024.
That will take you to all the documents: The Statement of Environmental Effects gives the overview of the proposal.
Merilyn Vale
Please don’t allow this. Preserve as a park.
The infrastructure in our area is already struggling to support new estates being built In Gwandalan. The school traffic in the area is a nightmare now. New subdivision will place further strain on schools and the traffic in this area.
The government is trying to treat the Central Coast area as a dumping ground as their crazy mission to build more houses
The current intake of immigrants is totally ridiculous
They scream about the environment yet they continue to destroy native open lands to try and achieve impossible targets at the expense of the community
The current infrastructure in the northern part of the coast is a disgrace as an example you only have to look at the pacific highway and scenic drive intersection at Doyalson
It’s about time politicians and their counterparts started to take a good look at what’s going on
I’ve lived north end budgewoi n lake Munmorah over 30 years! The roads are the same Doyalson intersection an absolute nightmare every afternoon! The mindset of local n state government of doing nothing about infrastructure around here is beyond diabolical! Already Kanangra rd is impossible to get onto pacific hwy with that development n now another major project in a area which hasn’t changed in decades except a shopping centre that’s not even remotely large enough for another 1,000 people on top of gwandalan n Catherine hill bay explosion! Politics aside wake the hell up n spend time looking at the future of this area us locals call home !!
More people equals less of everything else.The natural environment is getting smashed on the Central Coast.The big Australia cult, is killing it.
Everyone who lives here has a right to express their concerns about having more people coming to live here and congesting the area but I who do live in Sydney all of my life and do come up here and stay at my parents property only a short walk from this property in question and l understand why a lot of you people do not want more development in this area. I come up here as often from Sydney to get away from the rat race which it is and it is bad to my parents place which I find is more quiet and open spaced which I can walk around and enjoy. Maybe it would be better if not to have too many people coming to live here but what are people like me wanting to escape the mess which Sydney is in and come to a more peaceful place like here. I would like to live up here but I will need to have a house and that is the problem, where do I get one unless it is built. Does this make sense. Regards John