Lake Munmorah rezonings: Background information from 2020 Facebook post

Council said the draft commenced because of an identified need to accommodate population growth in the north-east of the Central Coast and covers the suburbs of Lake Munmorah, Doyalson North, Kingfisher Shores, Chain Valley Bay and a small area of Crangan Bay.

Council said the study area had historically been identified for longer-term development due to surface development restrictions related to underground mining within the area.

However, surface development restrictions over a large part of the study area have now been relaxed by Subsidence Advisory NSW.

Other catalysts for development included the Lake Munmorah Shopping Centre on Tall Timbers Road and the proposed:

# Skate Park,

# Regional Playspace and:

Four significant rezoning applications lodged with council:

# a 54ha parcel at 425 Pacific Highway & 2 Kanangra Drive, Crangan Bay

& 405-415 Pacific Highway, Lake Munmorah.

Proposing to rezone land to facilitate the release of about 620 lots.

# a 16.6ha parcel at 15 Mulloway Road, Chain Valley Bay.

Proposing to rezone land to facilitate the release of about 100 lots.

# a 27.2ha parcel at 285-335 Pacific Highway, Lake Munmorah.

Proposing rezoning to facilitate the release of about 300 lots. (This proposal also comes to council tomorrow night with staff recommendation to approve.)

# a 10.6ha parcel at 45 Mulloway Road, Chain Valley Bay. Proposing to rezone land to allow development of a Manufactured Home Estate. (This proposal is also coming to council tomorrow night.)

Even more detail

Staff say they made the following changes to the plan after the public consultation period.

• Inclusion of a vehicular link connecting Carters Road, Lake Munmorah to Tall Timbers Road, Lake Munmorah. The exhibited plan included a link from Tall Timbers Road to Kangaroo Avenue,but no vehicular through-route was included for Carters Road. This has now been amended to include a through-route. The alignment of the road link amended to reflect a different route through Chisholm Avenue to Tall Timbers Road.

Chisholm Avenue will require upgrades accordingly.

• Realignment of road connecting Chain Valley Bay Road and Carters Road, and realignment of potential residential subdivision subject to current Planning Proposal assessment being undertaken by Council.

• Inclusion of additional land at Kariola Street, Chain Valley Bay as a future

potential residential development area.

• Sewer Servicing provisions will now be deemed as major criteria. This has changed some of the precinct rankings as a result, in terms of the staging plan for the study area.

• Mapping has been updated to reflect the most recent adopted EEC mapping (2016).

• Mapping amended to identify the street frontage of properties 109, 115, 125, 135, 141, 147, 155, 163 Elizabeth Bay Drive, Lake Munmorah, as potential future residential development area. This area reflects Council’s previous correspondence to landowners that consideration would be given to rezoning of this area of land, subject to any proposed new residential subdivision being separated from the sensitive vegetation at the rear by a road interface.

• Mapping has been updated to more accurately reflect the proposed pathway upgrades in Council’s Bike Plan.

• In response to a significant level of concern relating to poor health and amenity impacts from the Lake Munmorah waterbody, an action has been added to ensure that all new subdivision works will be assessed to determine impacts due to stormwater runoff. The aim is to ensure that current water quality does not deteriorate in the face of new development.

• Liaison with TransGrid has resulted in agreement that the electricity easement to the east of Carters Road, Lake Munmorah can be extinguished, subject to approval. The Precinct 10 development area slightly increased as a result.

As usual, I will upload the decision from the meeting as it happens. (Sorry this post was so long but there was a lot of info in the report and this only touches on some of it.)

– Merilyn

This is a copy of a facebook post from April 2020.