WCC NF5 leads the way – Draft LEP 2009
Posted by reformwcc on April 2, 2009
Wollongong City Council – Neighbourhood Forum 5
Media Release
Neighbourhood Forum 5 met for the second time last night since its formation by Wollongong City Council. The meeting elected the following office bearers:
Felix Bronneberg was elected Chair.
Les Gapps was elected Co-Chair.
David Winterbottom was elected Secretary.
At the meeting the Chair, Felix Bronneberg, expressed a view that:
“it is totally unacceptable that an unelected Council attempts to push through a new LEP that significantly increases height and density limits in a broad brush manner for the entire Council area. There is a need for the LEP proposal be postponed until an elected Council is restored to oversee this process”
Neighbourhood Forum 5 has called on the Wollongong City Council Administrators to:
1. Withdraw the draft Local Environmental Plan and resubmit it once there is an elected Council.
2. To prepare and publicise a direct comparison, in lay terms, of the provisions of the existing and proposed Local Environmental Plans.
3. Hold a Public Hearing, chaired by an independent person preferably with qualifications in town planning and law into the provisions of the exhibited Local Environmental Plan.
4. Extended by at least six months the exhibition period for the Plan to enable the Community Forums to work with Council, and other Community Groups, to improve the draft Local Environmental Plan.
Neighbourhood Forum 5 has forwarded a detail submission to the General Manager, David Farmer, outlining the Forum’s concerns.
Felix Bronneberg
Chair – Neighbourhood Forum 5
