Quick reminder: Our next meeting will be Monday 4th August 2025 starting 7pm,
Huskisson Community Centre,
Dent St,
Huskisson.
Know of a local matter that involves the community please let us know , we will do our best to help.
If you have an issue you want to let Council know about you can either call them on 1300 293 111, or email: council@shoalhaven.nsw.gov.au
Also keep an eye on opportunities for feedback and opportunities to participate.
Actions from Last Meeting
The report on the Planning Proposal Request to Amend the Shoalhaven Local Environments Plan 2014 for 28 Bowen Street and 34-38 Hawke Street, Huskisson were considered at Council’s Ordinary Meeting on Tuesday 17 June 2025.
A deputation on behalf of the HWCV at the Meeting requested the existing building height codes not be altered as sought for the proposed redevelopment of the existing Huskisson Bayside Resort site on the corner of Hawke & Bowen Streets. The precedent it sets for the area and the imposing visual impact on White Sands Park were of utmost concern.
Regrettably Council voted unanimously in favour of the changes requested, allowing the application to continue presumably subject to the lodgment of comprehensive and detailed plans for a 72 room hotel on the site, making it by far the largest anywhere in the Shoalhaven. More information.
Detailed Minutes from the Meeting can be found on line – see page 9. Click Here
SCC Planning Documents and Activity
- Community Participation Plan Amendment Department of Planning Housing and Infrastructure – 27/06/2025
- Our community group has been notified of the NSW Department of Planning, Housing and Infrastructure’s (DPHI) proposed amendment to their Community Participation Plan (CPP), which is currently out for public consultation.
- The amendment proposes to reduce the minimum public exhibition period for relevant residential State Significant Development (SSD) applications to 14 days. This update seeks to align the CPP with the NSW Government’s recent changes to the Environmental Planning and Assessment (EP&A) Act, which came into effect on 22 May 2025.
- The proposed changes are on exhibition until 11:59 pm, Thursday 17 July 2025.
- More Information
Recent Development Applications in Huskisson / Woollamia
- MA25/1207 S4.55(2) to DA22/1985.
- Amend plans referred to in Condition 1.
- Submitted: 20/06/2025.
- 92 Burrill St, Huskisson.
- DA25/1749P.
- Demolition of existing structures and the construction of a Detached Dual Occupancy.
- Submitted: 23/06/2025.
- 2 Berry St, Huskisson.
Approved
- PCD25/1390.
- Demolition & Construction of Two Storey Dual Occupancy.
- Approved on 20/06/2025.
- 14 Beecroft St, Huskisson.
Link to Documents on Exhibition
Please note: more DAs have probably come in but the staff shortage at Council might mean that they haven’t been uploaded on to DA Tracker yet.
Events / Other
- Buried Truths – Respecting Huskisson’s Heritage. An InvitationWhen the community learned of plans to demolish Huskisson’s treasured Church, trash its old growth trees and deny the extent of its burial ground, few thought that the campaign that emerged to save this much loved place would succeed. Six years on the site is heritage listed.Now a local publisher and skilled designer have created a book to complement the story written by one of Australia’s finest social historians.You’re invited to the launch of Shirley Fitzgerald’s new book will be held on Saturday 5 July 2025, 3pm-5pm, at the Huskisson Community Centre at 17 Dent Street, Huskisson. More Information
- NSW Marine Estate News Click Here for the latest project updates.
- What’s On at Bundanon Click Here
- About magazine The cut off for the August 2025 combined edition is Wednesday 2 July 2025. Available for distribution the end of July 2025.
Kind Regards,
Committee HWCV
Date: 1/7/2025
