April 2024 South Precinct and Kiama Council meetings

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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.

“We are a community based non-for-profit organisation located in Gerringong. Our aim is to provide affordable housing to the community of Gerringong, Kiama and the Illawarra. 

As a first step we approach Kiama Council to facilitate currently unused council properties and council land and to re-purpose it to be used a community housing and apply for government grants to finance the construction of affordable housing. These homes can then be rented out to members from the community, of which the housing is in, in need of affordable housing.”
The Facebook page of this organisation can be found here.