Kiama’s Mayor, Cr Mark Honey, should be leading Kiama Council in the strongest possible opposition to the NSW government’s proposed changes to local planning laws, instead of merely accepting the proposals and lamenting that they “would override some of the planning protections council has developed for the community”, allow medium density housing developments without councils’ approvals and result in developments “that are out of character with surrounding neighbourhoods”. (Kiama Independent, 9/5/18)
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If the planning changes are not successfully resisted, the NSW government will continue to put its developer and corporate mates ahead of the people in its deliberate and quite arrogant further erosion of the quality of life in our urban and country built environments.
Without strong opposition to these types of changes to urban planning codes and laws, our local government representatives throughout the state and particularly in the burgeoning Wollongong and Kiama areas will be increasingly bypassed.
Consequently, we, as community members and ratepayers, will have less and less say in how we want our living environments to be for us, for our children and for our priceless and irreplaceable food-producing agricultural lands.
Instead of wringing his hands, Mayor Honey should join Kiama Council with other NSW local governments which have already publicly and loudly opposed the NSW government’s introduction of its Low Rise Medium Density Housing Code proposed for July this year.
And all the municipality’s people should back the council’s opposition.
G Pike, Jamberoo