A rally against the South Kiama rezoning has called for residents to contact the Minister for Planning, Anthony Roberts, directly to voice their opposition.

An independent review is currently being conducted into the Department's approval of the Planning Proposal, for land between Weir St and Saddleback Mountain Rd, but the crowd was reminded that it is ultimately up to the Minister to make the determination.

"It is not often you find the community, the council and a state representative all come together to have a look at a process and say something is wrong," said Mayor Neil Reilly.

"It is going to put a burden on our schools, our sewerage and the community, in that 400 lots could easily turn into 600 houses and it is absolutely inappropriate."

The Chair of the Central Precinct, Mark Greaves, said that Kiama was already meeting its housing requirements.

"We understand development is going to happen, but we would like it to be sensible and sustainable," he said.

"At no stage has anyone from the Department of Planning visited the site."

The Member for Kiama, Gareth Ward, said, "I do not want Sydney developers to tell us how our community will develop and the circumstances under which it will develop.

"We need to send a message to the decision makers that that is not on."

He went on to say, "After the land has gone and the profits have been pocketed, it will be this community that will have to deal with the consequences."

The crowd was encouraged to write to the Minister to voice their opposition to the rezoning.

"All of us have the opportunity to have one more go at saying that we want to make the decisions about how our community looks," said Mr Ward.

"I'm not going to sit back and let government make decisions that we have to live with."

Submissions should be sent to Minister Anthony Roberts via: [email protected]

And via

https://www.nsw.gov.au/.../minister-for-planning-and-homes

Copies should be sent to the Premier ([email protected]) and Gareth Ward ([email protected])