Mayfield Fuel Facility

I wish to make a formal objection to the proposal gazetted in the exhibition on the grounds that insufficient consideration has been given to the impact of the storage and transportation of chemicals on existing road haulage capacity.

Your reference to 'development of ancillary services and infrastructure, including internal roads' presumably with a view to storage and transportation is not specific enough. What is needed is a more detailed statement and plan outlining how diesel fuels would be transported to and from the port facility, taking into account the environmetal impact of such a plan on the local residential area (Mayfield East).

While this project on its own appears not to pose significant issues to local residents, it should not be considered further until broader decisions about the former BHP steelworks site have been made.

The poorly assessed Newcastle Port Corproation Plan concept plan for the site covers the location of this project, and still hangs in planning limbo. If this project is endorsed by the government, then it opens the door to incrememtal development of the overall BHP site. This approach is unacceptable. The overall site must be planned in a co-ordinated and strategic way. Similarly, the impacts from the overall use of the site must be determined and assessed on a cumulative level, taking into account not just all the activities planned to occur on the site, but those occuring and planned to occur in surrounding areas.

The community should not be forced to manage a 'death by a thousand cuts' approach to planning and environmetnal management of industrial operations in this area. A strategic decision regarding the use of the former BHP site must be made before any more development applications are accepted by the Department of Planning for the site.

Marstel has no apparent interest in specifying the practices and procedures of its customers, (eg Shell) and will not engage the community by requiring Liquid Fuels from its terminal to be restricted to an approved and adequate road network or other suitable infrastructure

I object and request refusal. A detailed objection is attached. The propsal is incompatible with Mayfield.