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Please NOTE: The Deadline for Submissions to Shoalhaven Shire Council has now ended. See 'Lobby info' page..

There are three ways to make a submission, but make sure it will arrive by the closing date (currently the close of business on Friday 16/Oct/09);

1. Send a letter to;

The General Manager, Shoalhaven City Council, PO Box 42, NSW 2541 quoting DA09/2077

To open a sample letter form that you can complete, click Sample Letter (MsWord format)
also Community can have direct contact with the 'Department of Planning' via Carol Pereira-Crouch, local secretariat on 02 9383 2105

2. Send an email to council@shoalhaven.nsw.gov.au

Address to the General Manager and quote DA09/2077

3. Use the Council’s on-line submission service;

Go to http://www.shoalhaven.nsw.gov.au/

Click on the ‘DA Tracking’ button in the left hand pane

Read the terms and conditions and click on ‘Agree’

Type ‘DA09/2077’ in the application field and click ‘Search’

Once found click on the + button next to 146 Parnell Rd, Tomerong

Scroll down, and under email click on ‘Contact us about this application’

Select ‘Submission’ on the first box of the Enquiry Form.

Read the text ‘Making a submission’ and click ‘I Agree’

Select ‘Respondent’, and fill out the form to make a submission

Click on ‘Submit’. You are done!

If you need help forming your objections some points are listed below that should assist you, don’t forget to include that you are requesting an extension to the submission closing date.

• This is an industrial activity in a rural zone that will generate ground, water, air and noise pollution and generate an increased fire risk for the area.
  
  
• The site drains into creeks that run to St George’s Basin and Jervis Bay and will lead to damage to these marine environments.
  
  
• The majority of the waste will not be local with waste coming from Bega in the south, all of the Illawarra, Wingecarribee and possibly Sydney.
  
  
• The size of the tip development is too large when compared to the size of the Quarry.
  
  
• The material deposited will include residual building waste (asbestos?) that cannot be recycled including lead based paint, treated timber, containers previously containing dangerous goods, fibreglass, plastics, building cavity dust, and gross pollutants collected from stormwater treatment devices.
  
  
• There will be 11,000 trucks or over 20,000 truck movements entering and leaving the highway at the Island Point Rd Bypass intersection, travelling along the bypass and into Gumden Lane. The trucks will be 10 and 20 tonne with one passing every 12 minutes. There is no safe egress for pedestrians or bike riders along this route.
  
  
• The five jobs the venture may provide will be offset by a reduction in tourism when the area becomes the site of a mega-tip.
  
  
• The mega-tip will diminish the quality of life, damage local roads and decrease the value of land and property in the Bay and Basin area.
  
  
• The application includes operation of the facility on week-ends.
  
  
• The Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) appears incomplete.
  
  
• This is a private development with little or no visual public or government support.
  
  
• Approval for this application has been removed from the local Council and passed to a Joint Regional Planning Panel.
  
  

If you still require more information then the Council website (accessed as described above by following the DA Tracking links) gives access to documents such as the EIS and also gives visual on-line access to other resident’s submissions. However all of these documents may be removed once the submission period closes. This is another reason for extending the time permitted for submissions.

If you require assistance in filling out a submission please contact us. contact@shutip.com