Message to Minister should be the same

The Tesrol application to build an eight-storey development on The Esplanade at Ettalong is currently with NSW Planning for determination.

The Planning Minister will make the final decision.

Two previous development applications by Tesrol, similar to this one, have been rejected. Previously the Labor Local Member Marie Andrew called on Gosford Council to send a strong message to developers - "adhere to the LEP (planning rules) or don't bother lodging an application" (press release October 18, 2006).

This development proposes heights twice the current planning regulations and some 70 to 80 per cent greater than the planning regulations proposed in the new Gosford DLEP 2009.

Approval of this excessive development would completely undermine the new DLEP.

Last time Marie Andrews called on council to reject the application as "elected councillors have a duty to uphold [those] LEP's".

The same duty of care should also apply to NSW Planning and the Planning Minister - adhere to the rules if you want planning regulations to be meaningful.

Email, 1 Jul 2010 Michael Gillian, Ettalong Beach