Kiama South Precinct Website

The April meeting of the South Precinct will be held at the Gerringong Town Hall on Thursday 11th March 2024.

COUNCIL MEETING INFORMATION

The full agenda and Business papers for the April Council meeting can be downloaded here.

The Table of Contents of the April Council Business Paper can be downloaded here.

Some specific items of interest have been extracted and can be found below:

Item 13.2 The Community Engagement Strategy can be downloaded here.

Item 13.3 Performance Improvement Order Implementation and Oversight committee report can be downloaded here.

Item 15.1 West Kiama Planning Proposal report can be downloaded here.

Item 15.2 Library Services Report can be downloaded here.

Item 17 Reports for Information can be downloaded here.

PRECINCT MEETING INFORMATION

The agenda for the April Precinct meeting can be found here.

There are two guest speakers at our April meeting. See details below.

Item 1: “Cows or Concrete” As mentioned previously we will have Karen Fowler from the group “Cows or Concrete” to discuss the large residential development proposal west of Kiama in the Spring Creek catchment. This proposal is very significant as Council undertakes its Growth and Housing Strategy. The outcome of these matters will have a significant impact on bearing on how growth in the Kiama LGA impacts on the Gerringong Gerroa area.

See above Item 15.1 on the West Kiama Planning Proposal and Item 17 page 485 on the Petition opposing the West Kiama PP with supporting comments here.

Item 2: Local “Affordable Housing” initiative. A new local initiative in the area of affordable housing called The Illawarra Housing Association Inc (IHA) has been established and Annette Pust will be presenting information on the IHA at our meeting. The founding members are : Founding members are Sandra McCarthy, Jeff McCarthy, Belinda Richardson Morris, Damian Morris and Annette Pust.

Draft Planning changes to increase densities near railway stations and Town Centres.

The NSW Government is proposing broad changes to planning rules that will apply to all councils in the “Six Cities” regions. Kiama LGA is part of the Illawarra Shoalhaven and is included.

The Station and town centres precincts are proposed to be:

• within the Six Cities Region; and
• 800m walking distance of a heavy rail, metro or light rail station; or
• 800m walking distance of land zoned E2 Commercial Centre or SP5 Metropolitan Centre; or
• 800m walking distance of land zoned E1 Local Centre or MU1 Mixed use but only if the zone contains a wide range of frequently needed goods and services such as full line supermarkets, shops and restaurants.
• The Department is seeking input from councils to determine which E1 and MUl centres contain an appropriate level of goods, services and amenities to be included.

The proposed non-refusal standards for residential flat buildings and shop top housing in the station and town centre precincts are:

In the inner part of the precincts within 400 metres of the stations/centres:

• Maximum Building Height: 21m
• Maximum FSR: 3:1

In the outer part of the precincts from 400 to 800 metres of the stations/centres:

• Maximum Building Height: 16m
• Maximum FSR: 2:1

The non-refusal standards will apply to any residential flat building and shop top housing development on land in station and town centre precincts (with the exception of land zoned R2).

For residential flat buildings, the non-refusal standards apply to land where this land use is currently permitted or proposed to be permitted. For shop- top housing, the non-refusal standards apply where this land use is currently permitted.

The Department of Planning has placed these changes on exhibition and submissions close on Friday 23rd February 2024. See this page for details.

Documents of interest – click to download:

Explanation of intended effect: Changes to create low-and mid-rise housing.

Draft State Environmental Planning Policy

Letter from the Better Planning Network

HOW THE CHANGES MIGHT APPLY TO GERRINGONG

The February meeting of the South Precinct was held at the Gerringong Town Hall on Thursday 8th February.

South Precinct agenda here

South Precinct minutes here

Kiama Council Extraordinary Meeting , 1st Feb Agenda here and Supplementary Agenda here

Kiama Council Extraordinary Meeting , 1st Feb Minutes here

Kiama Council Meeting 13th February Agenda here and Supplementary Agenda here

Kiama Council Meeting 13th February minutes here

Kiama Council has called an Extraordinary Meeting for Thursday 1 February to consider the Blue Haven Bonaira tender, and the Notice of Motion regarding the divestment of Blue Haven Bonaira, which was deferred from the December meeting.

The Extraordinary Meeting will commence at 5pm on Thursday 1 February.

Public Access will be held beforehand at 4pm.

The meeting agenda will also be published three days before the meeting.

Consideration of the Blue Haven tender will be held in a confidential session, as with all tenders presented to Councillors for consideration.

The following week, the Mayor and Chief Executive Officer will meet with Blue Haven staff, independent living residents, nursing home residents and their next-of-kin, Council staff and unions to discuss the outcomes and next steps.

The community will also be provided an update of the meeting outcomes.

The December meeting of the South Precinct will be held at the Gerringong Town Hall at 7.30pm on Thursday 14th December.

The December meeting of Kiama Council will be held at the Kiama Council Chambers at 6.00pm on Thursday 14th December with Public Access at 5pm prior to the meeting. NOTE: This is the same night as the Precinct Meeting.

Minutes from November 2023:

South Precinct November minutes here

Kiama Council November minutes here

Agendas for December 2023:

Minutes from October 2023:

South Precinct October minutes here

Kiama Council October minutes here

Agendas for November 2023:

South Precinct November agenda here

Kiama Council agenda Table of contents here

To download the full business paper (512 pages and 63MB) and the Enclosures document (573 pages and 74MB) go to the Council’s meetings page and select the November 2023 link here

or else look at the table of contents and select from the list below

Special links from Council Agenda via items:

Item 13.1 2022-23 Annual Report. Staff comments here and full document here.

Item 14.1 Draft Child Safe Policy here

Item 14.2 Draft Complaints Handling Policy here

Item 14.3 Draft local Government Elections Policy here

Item 14.4 Draft Data Breach Policy here

Item 14.5 Quarterly Budget Review here

Item 14.7 Statement of Investments here

Item 15.1 Draft Coastal management Program Stage 4. Staff comments here and full document here.

Item 15.2 Draft DCP Chapter 13 – Agritourism here

Item 15.3 Kiama Town Centre PP here

Item 15.4 Kiama Heritage PP here

Item 15.5 Disability Inclusion Action Plan 2023-2027 here

Item 15.6 Contribution Plans here

Item 16.1 Draft Crown Land Plan of Management. Staff comments here and full document here.

The October meeting of the South Precinct will be held on Thursday 12th October at the Gerringong Town Hall at 7.30pm. The minutes from the September 23 meeting can be downloaded here.

The Business Paper for the October meeting of Kiama Council can be found on the Council website here. Go to the link for the October meeting and click on the Agenda for download. NOTE the document is 75Mb in size.

Table of contents for October 2023 can be downloaded here

Minutes of the September Council meeting can be downloaded here.

Some of the items of special interest have been extracted and listed separately below for download from this website.

(a) Draft Media Policy can be downloaded here

(b) Annual Financial Statements 2021-2022 can be downloaded here

(c) Integrated Planning and Reporting report for period January 2023 to June 2023. This report provides an update on progress of the 2022 – 2026 Delivery Program and 2022-2023 Operational Plan for the January to June 2023 period. It can be downloaded here.

(d) Draft Disability Inclusion Plan can be downloaded here.

(e) Notices of Motion of E-scooter bans (Clr Brown) and Jamberoo Pool opening times (Clr Larkins) can be downloaded here.