WITH so much documentation and technical studies it can be confusing to fully understand. Realistically only the experienced with planning knowledge may fully understand all the terminology.
One of the concerns of Jindabyne residents has been once they forward their submissions, the final master plan is released, and they don’t get another say.
This is a fair concern, as there are changes being made to various environmental planning policies. Again, most people would not understand every single element of those policies.
We raised these concerns with planners who offered feedback on the process. The topic we discussed was height of buildings.
The masterplan and other reports have indicated suggestions only, nothing has been finalised yet. A set building height has not been determined and the SAP planners welcome input on not just this topic, but all topics before final delivery plans are presented.
That is the purpose of the “draft” master plan, to gauge more feedback.
In the housing instance, more work is still to come for aspects of views, shadows, height, parking associated with new buildings and architecture. Currently there are conceptual designs and sketches which stimulate thoughts to help people with their submissions by envisaging what development will look like.
There are also likely to be additional studies and planning conversations to be had that derive from your submission input.
After the draft master plan public exhibition closes, there will be an opportunity to comment on the Delivery Plan or the Development Control Plan in the next phase. This would be another 28 day public exhibition.
Prior to this future public exhibition, there could be more smaller group community consultation to gauge response before these reports are released. Details of changes to the masterplan will be presented in the delivery report.
A key difference in the SAP compared to other areas is normally a NSW development control plan is not legally binding, but a delivery plan for one of the catalytic sites in Jindabyne would be legally binding. Someone that knows a little bit of planning might say, well, it's just a DCP, it has no legal weight anyway. But the difference for the special activation precincts is it’s actually putting legal weight on them.
We can’t emphasise the importance of lodging feedback via a submission.
Once all submissions have been received they will be documented into categories of supporting, objection or comment.
These submissions will then be allocated by the planning team to their respective reports, which is why it is important as per page 64 to detail your submission. The planners will then produce a submission report that detail and address all submission content.
Have Your Say – Make It Count
Residents and interested parties ARE URGED to have their say with several ways to offer feedback.