A meeting of the Jamberoo Valley Ratepayers & Residents Association (JVRRA) has discussed what they see as shortcomings of the long awaited Golden Valley Rd DA.

“This development needs to be the best it can be, and we must learn from past mistakes,” says JVRRA Chair, Stuart Richards.

The meeting outlined a number of areas of concern including, but not confined, to:

• a 15 metre strip of rural land (outside the land that was rezoned residential) being used as the perimeter road. This was originally considered in pre-lodgement meetings to provide a direct linkage to Jamberoo Rd, but that is not proposed in the plan.
• only one access point into the subdivision
• 51 lots being proposed instead of the original 49 (and the 47 envisaged in the Kiama Urban Strategy)
• the incorporation of battleaxe blocks
• lack of any green space in the design
• lack of footpaths
• lack of parking
• inadequacy of the traffic study
• concerns about the capability of the Allowrie St intersection to cope with the traffic during and post construction
• variations proposed to the Jamberoo DCP
• lack of respect for findings of areas of high cultural significance for Aboriginal heritage.

 Submissions must be made by 19 July. Information available from DA Tracker at www.kiama.nsw.gov.au