Huskisson Woollamia Community Voice envisages a future that recognises and maintains the built, natural and cultural values of our local area. We accept and want future growth and planning to co-exist with the existing size and feel of the built environment to maintain our magnificent views, our historical tree-scapes, and both our European and Indigenous history and heritage. We aim for collaboration between the council and the community for a harmonious future.

• Council has now set a precedent by approving 17 units on an R3 block in an area of predominantly single storey homes, there is now no certainty for anyone that lives on/adjacent/near R3 zones that they won’t all be developed to this density. It is a precedent for Huskisson, Nowra, Bomaderry, Berry and Ulladulla.
• Potentially 134 blocks could have 17 units built on them, that is 2300 extra units – approx. 9000 extra people,
• Huskisson is going to look like a crowded city suburb – not attractive for tourists or residents,
• The Council’s own Local Environment Plan (zoning plan) indicates that the maximum height is 11m but this development goes over that,
• The Council’s own Development Control Plan states:
  • that the floor space ratio must be no more than 0.7:1 
  • this proposal far exceeds that, with a Gross Floor Area of 2029 m2 over a block size of 1012 m2,
  • the proposed development must ‘enhance and make a positive contribution to the character of existing buildings and streetscapes and reinforces the built form and environmental conditions of the locality’ – this proposal doesn’t do that. 
  • ‘medium density is generally considered to be development between (NOT equal to) the scale of a dwelling house and a residential flat building’. We say that a block of 17 units must be considered a residential flat building and is therefore not ‘medium density’ but ‘high density’ development. It appears Council have ignored their own Development Control Plan.
• The community hasn’t been told how the council plans to provide the infrastructure needed to accommodate this level of development – electricity supply, narrow roads, lack of public transport, parking, and sewerage. 
• 134 additional unit blocks means that most surfaces in Huskisson will be impermeable and all runoff will go straight into the bay – with everything in it. Currently much run off is filtered by lawns/soil and the wetlands.
• We are not against all development but it needs to be development that fits in with the character, and the values of Huskisson and the bay.

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We acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of the land that we call Woollamia and Huskisson, and recognise their continuing connection to land, water and community. We pay respect to Elders past, present and emerging.