CONCRETE PIPE BUSINESS PROPOSED FOR KULNURA SITE

HAVE YOUR SAY NOW!
PRESERVE OUR IDYLLIC RURAL COMMUNITY – WE STRONGLY OBJECT TO THIS DEVELOPMENT
DA/1060/2023
Only five immediate neighbours were notified, yet this issue is of great concern to so many in the wider community.
It uses the word Rural in its DA proposal. It is not rural. It is heavy industrial. It is really an industrial, large scale concrete pipes and culverts storage and sales business. This storage and sales of massive pipes and culverts should be based in an existing industrial zone. These massive pipes are predominately for the construction industry, with very few sold locally to farmers.
It has operated unapproved since 2021.
Council needs to uphold its LEP, CCP and RU1 zoning.
It is an eyesore, incongruous in this stunning rural landscape.
Greta and Springs Roads are narrow country roads. They are a through roads used by commuters, tourists, motorcyclists and locals. They are not suited to the already current large numbers of trucks and the damage they cause. The roads are in poor condition and are under constant repair at the cost of the ratepayers. Drivers are regularly forced off the road. We don’t need more trucks delivering, buying and selling massive pipes to add to already overburdened country roads.
This type of business/development does not belong here.
Operating 6 days a week is unfair and unjust for locals and tourists who use the roads . Add these business hours to their already existing intensive chicken broiler production enterprise means more oversized heavy trucks.
The applicant claims studies are not necessary, but studies must be conducted by qualified independent organisations to estimate the increase in all generated traffic movements and the resultant economic effect to road maintenance and increased safety risk to road users. The DA says there will be no effect on water. The site drops to the south located a short distance from Ourimbah Creek, a major water catchment area. Therefore, studies should also be done by qualified hydrologists and then conclusions made.
Their current operation is unapproved and has been operating since 2021 (without Council approval and with instructions from Council to remove the pipes in August 2021).
THIS DA OFFERS NOTHING POSITIVE TO THE COMMUNITY YET IS FULL OF RISKS AND NEGATIVES.
Please make your voice heard and protect this precious and unique rural environment and our amenity.
You can lodge your objection to this DA by submitting it on the council website or you can scan and email it to [email protected]

Following requests from the community closing date for submissions has been extended until 11th July.
This gives those of you who rushed their submission or were notified late and wish to lodge a thoughtful or properly structured submission time to do so.
If you want to do this, contact Ryan White on 02 4306 7900, asking him to allow you to resubmit or amend your existing submission. (based on short notice and technical issues with Council’s website DA Tracker).
If you know anyone who needs help with lodging a submission, give them a hand please.
After much research and advice from various quarters we are engaging the services of a suitably experienced Town Planner.
Town planners know and speak the language of consultants and council environment and planning staff.
Advice from an experienced source, is that it is unlikely that in two weeks a small group of people like us would be able to gain the knowledge and expertise required to achieve the results of an expert who has spent his life in planning. We have contacted Ian Sinclair, an expert in these matters and have obtained his plan of action and quote.
It will be necessary that we all contribute according to our ability towards his costs of $4,950.
We believe that we are in good hands. He will visit the site at 315 Greta Road very soon.
Please give us your feedback and forward this to your friends and neighbours who are concerned about our amenity and rural environment.

Keep informing others in our Community, our families and friends to continue sending submissions and petitions on change.org https://chng.it/pmzmNJQCkf

 

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