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Save Lot 490 Kingscliff
Beachfront Crown Lands
A Rare Surviving Wildlife Corridor
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The battle to save the beachfront crown lands near Cudgen Creek from bulldozing and development for another coastal tourist resort appears almost lost. Many thought Crown Lands meant public lands intended as lands set aside for people, community and conservation.
Comment – Large tourist resorts belong on Private Lands not Community Crown Lands.
The Lot 490 Crown Land currently supports over 90 species of plants and a range of sensitive plant communities including some threatened and endangered species; supports many species of wildlife and birdlife including the nationally endangered Glossy Black Cockatoo; supports a variety of wildlife habitat and communities including the swamp wallaby, blossom bat, small mammals and reptiles and likely the NSW highly endangered Stone Beach Curlew recently photographed close by the site. More information on Wildlife at the Lot 490 website.
The Battle to save the coastal crown lands in a natural state is a battle for the preservation of this open coastal space close to Kingscliff for
(1) future generations of people in the community young and old to treasure and enjoy;
(2) the preservation of a valuable coastal wild life corridor and the Glossy Black Cockatoo that currently feeds there;
(3) maintain important community natural open space, a wildlife zone and a green space buffer to the virtual continuous urbanisation and beachfront development down the coastline,
(4) an open wildlife space of coastal peace and quiet not spoiled by delivery trucks, empty wine and beer bottle noise daily and tourist noise and further not spoiled by the visual pollution and impact of excessive structural buildings.
Why replace this open space with tennis courts, buildings, two storey bungalows, convention centre and restaurant on this public crown land and try to create some poor economic justification for bringing in the bulldozers.
Lot 490 Crown lands is about to be bulldozed for another tourist resort but one of a “different accommodation style ”as seems to be the mindset of the NSW State government PAC that supported the resort development over community calls for non development. Hundreds of signed petitions from the local community against the resort development on these crown lands have already been ignored by the NSW State Government and its bureaucrats. Will the government and the developer Leighton Properties ignore the continuing message of the community!
Oddly the developer’s environmental report for the crown lands indicated there were no feed trees for the Glossy Black Cockatoo on site where there are nearly 100 established feed trees identified and tagged by local birdwatchers and environmentalists. The report said the presence of the endangered Glossy Black Cockatoo unlikely when site studies of these endangered birds were being sent to a local university for research work. You really do not want to here more but surely get the developer’s picture to grab this land but be assured that this resort development will be eco friendly as stated by the developer and in the interest of the community as claimed by government bureaucrats. A Ha Ha joke we kid you not! It is so amazing Sydney based bureaucrats can be so caring and knowledgeable for what is good for our community and what we need. It is amazing they held their one Kingscliff public meeting during the day when many could not attend and further a great many if not the majority in the community were not even aware of the public meeting through minimal public communication.
The resort development will bulldoze land, fragment and destroy this wild life corridor!
There are alternative low impact tourism style activities that can be undertaken through this site other than large scale resort development.
Perhaps this development can only be stopped now through a strong message of People Power from the community and beyond. It likely sets also a new government standard for coastal crown reserve lands and the rubber stamping operation of the PAC in Sydney.
Pass this on the friends, family and all that care for the environment. Spread the message onwards.
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Find out more at the website – http://savelot490.com.au
Like our battle to preserve this open coastal crown land space for future generations and wild life – not for a commercial resort, restaurants and convention centre. If the Franklin River in Tassie could be saved may be Lot 490 can be saved at the eleventh hour. Local environmental Land care groups have freely offered their time and skill in lot 490 land area rehabilitation.
Greens MP and Planning spokesperson David Shoebridge said:
“The approval on Lot 490 is a squandered opportunity by the State Government to protect some of the last remaining coastal vegetation in the region.
David visiting Lot 490 earlier in August 2012
“When I visited the site earlier this year, it was clear that the site had immense ecological value. Over 60 species of native vegetation have been recorded in the area and it provides crucial habitat for many native species including endangered Glossy Black Cockatoos.
This decision by the PAC is part of an ongoing pattern that sees this body approving the overwhelming majority of developments that come before it.
The PAC’s approval rate is a staggering 94 per cent and it agrees with the government’s planning bureaucrats in more than 96 per cent of cases. No wonder the community feels locked out of planning decisions under this government.
Minor amendments made by the PAC in its approval may look like a concession but do little more than pull back some of the most extravagant parts of the developer’s proposal.
This development will have a disastrous impact on not only the immediate site, but it will also cut straight across a rare wildlife corridor.
The State’s developer friendly Planning Assessment Commission (PAC) has rubber stamped the development at Lot 490 on the Tweed Coast, to the outrage of locals and environmentalists.”
Leighton Properties and the NSW State Government seem to think – Build it and they will come - How wrong that thinking is – Kingscliff is not Sydney.
There is an alternate thinking – It is not wise to devastate an ecosystem and build where you are not wanted – They just might not come! People do have a social conscience.
Possibly not good as well to try to off load project developments unwelcomed and substantially unwanted by a community as a good commercial venture.
Current resorts in the vicinity that are well marketed have been struggling for years to maintain good occupancy levels. This development does not even make commercial sense.
A different style of accommodation as hand fed to and suggested by government bureaucrats in the PAC report will not cut the marketing mustard!
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