Planning strategies ignored in Sporties proposal

My conclusion, after reading the Penisula News report, Sporties $37.2 million redevelopment proposal, in the July 24 edition, is that residential foreshore development has been confirmed since the Peninsula Urban Directions Strategy Final Draft February 2005 (PUDS study).

The PUDS Study was a strategic investigation of estuarine processes and capability of residential foreshores to accommodate further growth.

These areas are prone to flooding, erosion or are likely to be affected by rises in sea level as a result of global warming, the study clearly stated.

However, more developments of the same character as that proposed for Sporties, can be expected for the foreshore.

The omission of any comment on sea level rise in the DA appears to indicate that it is not an issue.

Is this correct?

The construction of penthouse units on the foreshore cannot be a decision hastily made without supporting evidence.

Or, is this the age of bureaucratic circumlocution?

The sea level rise planning levels adopted by Gosford City Council in March 2015, and the Brisbane Water Foreshore Risk Management Studies, do not appear to apply to the Central Coast administration since May 2016.

Decision making has certainly been simplified for the Administrator, but not the public.

Letter, 26 July 2017

Norman Harris, Umina