UPDATE Catherine Hill Bay (NSW): Concept Plan Rejected
Catherine Hill Bay Beach The Independent Hearing and Assessment Panel final report on the Rose Group’s second concept plan has been released. Read why the panel rejected Rose’s second concept plan. This development proposal will have severe impacts on the village of Middle Camp. The proposal entails building houses to the north, south, east and west of the village and, as such, will be highly visually intrusive. 300 new houses on top of the existing 54 will smother the heritage village.
From website: https://web.archive.org/web/20080719154720/http://www.catherinehillbay.org.au/save_the_bay_campaign/save_the_bay_campaign.htm#JoinOurCampaign
Why the Development is so bad
Why the development is so bad
Catherine Hill Bay is a heritage village of about 100
mainly small miners’ cottages, whose scale, character and appearance is
much as it was in the 1890s and early 1900s. soon after coal mining was
established.
The development proposals being considered by the State Minister for Planning, Mr Sartor, and for
600 houses and 150 tourist beds at the southern end of
Catherine Hill Bay , intruding onto the headland and into the heritage
village (the RoseCorp proposal)
300 houses at the northern end of the Bay, in the vicinity of Middle Camp about 1km north.
In other words the heritage village would be hemmed in
between new development which would increase the place’s size by 10
times.
Despite their combined impact on the community, the
Government is treating these as separate projects, with about eight
months between publication of the two concept plans.
You can check details of these plans, with maps by clicking here
The community’s reasons for fighting and what we think is
reasonable development are available in full by clicking on these
headings in the side bar (left)