Central Coast Community Better Planning Group

The Central Coast Community Better Planning Group meets digitally for one half hour each Wednesday afternoon to discuss local land planning issues.

Vision

To advocate all levels of Government to improve planning outcomes and achieve more environmentally sustainable, ecologically sound and liveable environments for our communities.

Principles

Monitor planning matters on the Central Coast to promote the protection of our environment and enhance the Central Coast’s built, historical and natural attributes.
Undertake lobbying, advocacy and community engagement to successfully achieve the aims of our vision statement.
Encourage community involvement in planning matters.

Objectives and Actions

To prepare and lodge submissions on all planning proposals that are of concern to the community.
To ensure population growth is sustainable and enriches our quality of life, not diminishes it.
To promote and protect the Coastal Opens Space System (COSS); biodiversity, wetlands, ridge lands, vegetation, wildlife corridors, waterways, coastline, beaches, agricultural lands and water catchments.
To include climate change considerations in all planning proposals.
To protect residential amenity by encouraging consideration of noise, traffic and other nuisance which may impact upon people’s quiet enjoyment of their homes.
To encourage developments to address infrastructure, transport links, parking, local character, cultural issues and are all inclusive & accessible to all people regardless of their age/ability.
To retain pockets of suburban bushland.
To work with “First Nations” people to protect traditional heritage.
To alert the community to planning proposals of significance and encourage/support community involvement through publicity and education.
To encourage all levels of government and the planning panels to allow greater community involvement.
To protect the agricultural land and water catchments by ensuring no urbanisation west of the M1 Motorway.

Responding to a development application

When a Development Application (DA) is lodged with the Central Coast Council (CCC) and you believe you will be affected you can use our toolkit

Other activities

In addition to keeping track of development applications and writing submissions or undertaking campaigns when we believe a development application poses a threat to ecologically sustainable development (ESD), we monitor the following on a weekly basis and make comment or undertake campaigns as necessary:

The Central Coast Council’s Your Voice Our Coast public engagement website

The NSW Government planning portal where we regularly check, track and provide feedback on planning proposals, the actions of the Hunter and Central Coast Regional Planning Panel, Part 5 applications, State Significant Developments and State Developments. If you are interested in keeping track of local matters being dealt with at a state level the following pages will be useful:

Working together to preserve our Central Coast Environment