Call for LEP letters
It is of huge concern to me that, although planning has been in the pipeline for some time, a wide representation of the community have not been made aware of the potential impacts of the changes to our planning legislation and the knock on effects on our lives and our environment in the Eurobodalla Shire.
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The likely impacts of the proposed changes will benefit a few people financially in the short term and degrade our shire long term.
New planning standards have identified that Local Environment Plans (LEPs) should identify connectivity zones to allow plant and animal movement and to protect water catchments and wetlands.
Development Control Plans (DCPs) cannot protect or provide environmental management across the shire unless there is a zone in the higher planning instrument, i.e. the LEP.
Environmental controls in a DCP will not give the same protection.
The DCP is really just guidelines, whereas the LEP is law.
The current proposed amendment to the LEP 2012 removes entirely the environment management as a zone (E3) and degrades the only other environmental zone (E2).
I hope and trust people concerned will write to council about their concerns. Submissions regarding Eurobodalla Council's Rural Lands Strategy Planning Proposal close on June 22.
Sandy Wilder
Moruya
No to live export
Members of the South Coast Regional Group of the Animal Justice Party attended the party rally in Canberra on June 9 – one of several capital city rallies held around the nation calling for an end to live export.
We came away with uplifted hearts and a terrific feeling of solidarity. Our group was joined by members from the ACT, as well as many others from other animal welfare groups and the general public wanting to see the end of live export now.
We were uplifted by the spirit of those who stood by our sides with one voice for kindness and the commitment to end live export.
With placards, home-made signs and passion we were all moved by the experience. Bernie Brennan (AJP ACT Convenor) rallied us with stirring and emotionally telling words counting down from the early 1980s the disasters of this horrific and inhuman trade. A founding member of ACT Animal Liberation spoke about her journey from farmer to animal activist. This gathering of about 150 demonstrators included a wide cross-section of the community and people of all ages, from young children to octogenarians. We marched chanting “be a sport, ban live export; export Turnbull; export Littleproud”.
Margaret Park
Regional Group Leader, AJP SC
Surf Beach
Water protections ‘feeble’
Whether we are boating or fishing, swimming or surfing, drinking tap water or growing oysters, we all want good water quality.
But the protections Eurobodalla Shire Mayor Liz Innes offers us in the Rural Lands Strategy are feeble and way below what we have had for years and years.
Worse, they rely on the shire putting conditions on every development application up and down the rivers.
The rules should be stated in the strategy and the Local Environment Plan, where everyone who buys or owns land will see what is expected.
The Eurobodalla Shire has wonderful waterways and water quality and has led the country in protecting them.
The Rural Lands Strategy should be amended to restore the protections we have had for our waterways and wetlands.
Oyster growers are right to be worried.