Hanson Tweed Sand Plant Expansion

Thank you for contacting the Natural Resources Access Regulator.

This is a pre-approval matter that needs to be sent to [email protected] to collate a combined response from both NRAR and DPIE Water.

Kind Regards,

Deb

I strongly object to this proposal! Should this go ahead there will be enormous HEALTH ramifications, due to noise, dust and pollution. Such disasters have happened in other areas with irreversible damage. In past years dolphins have been seen here. As with the salmon industry in SE Tasmania the water will be choked with inevitable spill transforming the blue harbour into brown/grey sludge eliminating all marine life. DO NOT PROCEED PLEASE!

Hi James,
As the subject site is not within Key Fish Habitat, DPI Fisheries has no comments on the proposal.
If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact me on my contact details below.
Regards,
Annette.

Annette Comerford | Fisheries Manager - Coastal Systems (North Coast)
Aboriginal Fishing and Marine and Coastal Environments
NSW Department of Primary Industries | Fisheries
1243 Bruxner Hwy | Wollongbar | Bundjalung Nation | NSW 2477
T: 02 6626 1395 | M: 0418 211 843 | E: [email protected]

Heritage Council of NSW comments attached.

Cheryl L Cooper. 200 Tweed Coast Road, Chinderah NSW 2487,
Hanson Tweed Sand Plant SSD-10398.
Statement of Objection.

The proposed doubling of noxious Hanson extraction and haulage activities would complete the isolation of my rural property within a ring of non-agricultural enterprises permitted in recent years.
Those boundary encroachments include sand miners (Hanson and Gales), one landscape haulage depot (O'Keeffe), Tweed Sewerage works, a busy golf course, and a proposed nationally televised greyhound racing venue.
My right to exploit my holding in compliance with its current Rural 2 classification will be made meaningless by Hanson expansion, since my permitted options specify consistency with an "agricultural landscape." Clearly, there would be no agricultural landscape left to conform to.
I am further hamstrung by the very opposite forces of industry -- conservation -- with recent flood mitigation plans prohibiting new building in areas of otherwise value-adding potential to me.
My lifetime of sympathetic stewardship will be rewarded by my land becoming the local default carbon sink, assaulted from dawn to dusk by acoustic, olfactory and air-particle pollution for the next 30 years.
Every boundary of my property will be impacted by non-agricultural enterprise if the Hanson expansion proceeds. Our residence fronting Tweed Coast Road is already impacted daily by Boral and Hanson trucks parking outside from 6.30am (photos available), with their jarring compression brakes and clang of trailer linkages. This is 500m before their Altona Road access turn-off.
My property comprises two portions: a long thin section from Tweed Coast Road to the Tweed Sewerage works, and then a square portion of approximately 60 acres immediately beyond this. We use the front section for equine activities and other recreation, and the rear 60 acres for cattle aigistment and proposed horse agistment.
If a highway interchange link goes ahead, I foresee major impacts on my use of this adjacent rear 60 acres. If Altona Road is re-routed closer to my property as planned, it will vastly reduce my options for sympathetic development along its entire length.

Yours sincerely, Cheryl L Cooper, Chinderah. Email [email protected]
Phone 0407747259.

Crown Lands has following comments for this proposal:-

Where Crown public roads are to provide access to the proposed development, Crown Lands will seek to transfer the road/s to the relevant authority in accordance with Crown Lands’ policy.

See attached letter dated 20 May 2021.

Heritage NSW ACH comments attached

Comments as per attached letter

Please see attached submission from Gales-Kingscliff Pty Limited owner of the adjoining Cudgen Lakes Sand Quarry.

MEG-GSNSW response.

TfNSW response.

BCD advice as per attachment.

Please see EPA comments attached

Attached.

Please find attached Council's endorsed comments in relation to the proposed SSD.