The Bay Resort, Anna Bay

Your website http://majorprojects.planning.nsw.gov.au/index.pl?action=view_job&job_id=5916
shows the address of the development as 4771 Nelson Bay Rd. That is different to the address on the EIS etc documents. (eg App 1.2) Which is correct?
Also, the nearest display is 40 min drive away. How about exhibiting it in the Salamander Community Centre Library, as many other such application are exhibited by Port Stephens Council, and only 5 min drive from the development site?

I refer to the subject Development Application, the subject of public notification.

I am an owner/occupier and purchased this property for the rural aspect, for my horses and that there is no development within the immediate area as it is rural zoning. My property is on the boarder along the Crown PubIic Council Road and the proposed development is opposite my property.

I raise the following concerns of the development:

Noise from the Resort: Currently the property is in a quiet rural area and this proposed facility will general a lot of noise from guests and traffic.

Privacy: The proposed facility will create potential overlooking and loss of privacy to my property. I would insist that dense tree planting be a requirement, should it be approved.

Crown Road access: Currently my property is the last on this dirt road. If this proposed resorts goes ahead there will be hundreds of cars driving past the property creating disturbance, dust and noise.

Therefore, I object to the proposal.

It is very disappointing that the developer has not contacted me as I am an immediate neighbour during the design process.

I trust that the Department will ensure that the subject proposal will address the above concerns.

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As an adjacent landowner, I object strongly to the proposed construction of Anna Bay Tourist Facility SSD 5916.
The attached PDF file outlines my objections in detail.

I strongly object to the proposed Anna Bay Tourist Facility SSD 5916 being constructed adjacent to my home. My detailed objections are listed in the attached PDF file.

I object to this proposal on many grounds, including the problems with acid sulphate soils and the proposal as being an eco-tourist facility.

Attached, initial submission re the Anna Bay Tourist Facility.
Response and further updated information would be appreciated.
Sincerely yours
DarrellDawson, coordinator. EcoNetwork - Port Stephens Inc.

Our objection is being uploaded

I do not consider this proposal to be in the community interest

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One “eyesore” in Anna Bay is enough! There should be guarantees and financial assurance made before any approval.

As this project has no impact on Ausgrid assets, Ausgrid has no comment at this time.

1. Inundations make this land entirely unsuited to any resort. Any cursory investigation of helicopter or satellite photography records will show that the land floods regularly:
- when an east coast low sits over the Tomaree Peninsula for several days as they do several times each year,
- most months on the highest tides with any amount of rain, and
- when the the sand-bed aquifer under the land is saturated, as was the case for many weeks since the recent flooding that devastated much of NSW.
At the driest of times the water table is barely below the surface. Therefore it is obvious that this land is entirely unsuitable for any development other than a modest home.
2. It is entirely unfair to all Port Stephen’s residents to allow this development to proceed in the light of rising sea levels predicted by global warming experts. If/when problems caused by rising sea levels damage the resort, one could reasonably expect the owner to sue the approving authorities, and all Port Stephen’s residents will share the cost. Unfair.
3. Attempting to provide a hard base on such sodden eco-sensitive land for heavy equipment to drive the hundreds of piles on which the accomodation and walkways will rest will cause great irreversible damage across the landscape - entirely unacceptable ecological damage. Similarly, providing a hard base for heavy equipment to bring in the accomodation units will cause more irreversible damage.
4. Accuracy of the proposal is questionable. There are pictures in the proposal possibly intended to look like they are based on real aerial photographs which show lots of trees outside the boundary of the property which do not exist. Similarly, they exclude 3 houses which do exist on the east side of the entry road. Makes one very wary of the accuracy of the rest of the proposal.
5. Leave the bus stop in Nelson Bay Road where it is. It is entirely unnecessary to move it from its present position in front of nobody's house in Nelson Bay Road to directly in front of the residence on the corner of the access road. Entirely unnecessary idling bus noise and fumes right in front of their house at all hours. And relocating the bus stop as proposed directly interferes with the residents’ access to the driveway and directly into their garage. Indeed the plan shows the proposal to block the resident’s driveway and relocate it to ??? where??? Preserve the current ambience of the residents and leave the bus stop where it is, but further off the road, or move it west, not east. Leave the driveway access and culvert where it is, and redesign the rest.
And is it coincidence that the only people affected by unnecessarily blocking a driveway and unnecessarily introducing idling bus noise and fumes in front their home also happen to be objectors to the project? There is no advantage to any other resident in moving the bus stop, but there are certainly unnecessary disadvantages to the residents impacted by the proposed relocation.
The developer may suggest that the current location of the bus stop will mean his clients travelling by bus will have too far to walk. This is nonsense - simply put a pedestrian gate in his fence at the current location of the bus stop.
6. Similary, why is the proposed sealing of the access road not in the centre of the road easement, instead of hard up against the boundary of the property on the west side? Not very fair, do you think?
7. The fill for the car park will have a damming effect on the property south of the car park - entirely unacceptable. Do not allow it.
In summarising, my main and very serious objection is that any development larger than a residential house on this eco sensitive land is entirely unsuitable, as the land is regularly inundated, sometimes for weeks at a time, and the inundations are predicted to steadily increase with global warming. Please reject the entire development.

These are my objections to The Bay Resort, Anna Bay

our little town has already suffered a white elephant by chinese developers and is being ruined by other developers , visitors come here for the natural beuty and lack of big development , also our town has not got sufficiant infastructure to cope with this added development and also once something like this is approved it sets a precident for more developments like it , so i say knock these developments on the head before its to late and we loose our natural beauty

The site for the proposed development is unsuitable where it is low lying and is a key part of the local eco system.
The local area is experiencing other residential developments on better sites where this proposal does not present enough local or wider community benefits.