Gateway Precinct - B6 Enterprise Corridor

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Surrounding precinct of the southern end of Gateway Precinct is Gills Creek Precinct


What the Gateway entrance looks like at present - still representive of the green bushland and rural heritage	Under the proposed B6 zone - how ugly and built up our Gateway entrance to 2508 could suddenly become
The photos above is the 'Gateway' from the F6 freeway to Helensburgh, Otford, Stanwell Park & Stanwell Tops & the main thoroughfare to hang-gliding and views at Bald Hill, Kellys Falls, a Wildlife Park & meets the Grand Pacific Drive, yet WCC thinks it should be a B6 corridor allowing mixed business from Light Industrial to caryards and brothels, as depicted in the 'artist impression - right hand photo!

WCC Recommendations
It is recommended that a planning proposal be prepared to amend the Wollongong Local Environmental Plan 2009 by:
• Zoning the Princes Highway gateway precinct, including Symbio, to B6 Enterprise Corridor
• The additional use of “animal boarding or training establishment” also be permitted on the Symbio properties.

You may also or prefer to sign a submission letter
- A brief review on the different precincts proposed for 2508 -submission letter
- general submission on retaining the E2 environmental protection across the majority of the 2508 area

	The Administrators Wollongong City Council Locked Bag 8821 Wollongong 2500 Re: Preliminary Report Response – review of 7(d) Lands at Helensburgh/Stanwell Tops/Otford - B6 Enterprise Corridor including golf range & Wildlife Park
To:		Old growth tree hollow on proposed B6 corridor land. These large tree hollows & surrounding bush are essential habit for shelter and nesting of local endangered species such as the Powerful Owl, and Sooty Owl, or even native bee hives such as the one in the photo below
Any Additional Comment you'd like to include :
Lette:
	I object to the adjacent and surrounding zoning of land of South-West Helensburgh as B6 Enterprise Corridor, including but not limited to Baines Places, Lawrence Hargraves Drive and Princes Highway. This corridor is adjacent to the Sydney Water Catchment, F6 ramp Roundabout. & the tributary to Gills Creek Tourism -The majority of traffic flow to the Wildlife Park, Kellys Falls & Bald Hill hang-gliding either as a destination or impromptu is via the Roundabout Gateway on the Princes Hwy. It is also a thoroughfare to the start of the Grand Pacific Drive. The proposed enterprise corridor that allows new development ranging from brothels to heavy machinery depots and used car yards with flashing neon signs is not in keeping with the historical village ambience nor the tourism gateway to the south coast. Such development will deter tourists and swamp the area in a sea of concrete bunkers - all a threat to the water catchment, diminishing wildlife corridor and our tourism industry. A mixed zone of Tourism and E2 in this corridor would be far more beneficial to the 2508 area and environment. Threat to existing cafes/takeaway - As the entrance and outer fringe of the Helensburgh township, a B6 zoning allowing a multinational fast food operator, could severely jeopardise the future viability of takeaway and cafe food operators within the town. Local residents could completely miss the Walker St/Park St shops & tourists miss the cafes of Stanwell Park & Otford. Environment -Given the volatility of many industrial materials and chemicals, such B6 enterprise will also require extensive land clearing in the guise of fire hazard reduction. Further risking high soil erosion to the Wilsons Creek, Gills Creek and Sydney Water catchment . The former RTA site on the corner of Parkes St was known to contain buried drums of toxic waste. We risk accidental releases of similar with a prong of the first excavator. The wildlife habit corridor between the Royal National Park, Garrawarra and the Illawarra escarpment has already greatly diminished. ‘Fenced in’ by the F6 freeway, Pacific Ocean and rail corridor, these last fragments of bushland are essential to the movement of wildlife and biodiversity. Increased refuse, and litter will also be inevitable. Even Otford Rd bears testimony to regular vehicle discards of thickshake cups and hamburger cartons originating from 15km away. For the balance of the lands under review, we would like to register our approval of the Otford Protection Society Incorporated's Planning Proposal dated 30 April 2010 for ALL the previously zoned 7d lands to E2 Environmental Conservation, which also includes exit strategies for landowners. Yours faithfully
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