Bungendore Residents Group Community action for Bungendore Village

I’ll draw from the council business papers for the background to this.

‘The Sydney-Canberra Corridor Regional Strategy states that the NSW Department of Planning will only support greenfield developments in Bungendore that are contained in a  Land Use Strategy and Structure Plan. Such a plan would need to be endorsed by the Director Of Planning first.

To expedite this major project and in recognition of the development pressures being experienced in Bungendore, Council appointed a consultant to prepare a land use
strategy and structure plan for Bungendore. This work will be incorporated into
Palerang’s 25 year Strategic Planning Paper. The funding for this consultant work was provided by owners of land adjacent to Bungendore who were seeking further
development of their land. Council supervised the project and was the client for the
brief. On 30 April 2008 a meeting of Stakeholders engaged the consultant PA Walsh Consulting to complete the strategy.

A five person Steering Committee team comprised of Mr Des Page representing the
underwriters, John Wright (Manager Strategic Planning), Louise Menday (Director
DPES), David McLaren (Bungendore Chamber of Commerce) and Martin Brown (NSW Department of Planning) was formed to oversee the Project. A completed draft of the study was presented to a Council Workshop on 17 November 2008. The study was also discussed with the major Stakeholders on 18 December 2008.’

‘Apart from the usual costs associated with project managing such proposals, all other costs will be funded by the interested land owners (at their agreement). The total
external cost of the work was $100,000 which was paid for by the following local land holders who had agreed to fund the project to the following extent D.Osbourne 10%, Kenoss Pty Ltd 20%, Elmslea Land Development 60%, P Darmody 10%, Warren King $1000.’

There was application at the council meeting to delay the release of the draft because the stakeholders (it was said at the meeting), were all dissapointed that the report was not to be released with the Town Centre plan which was to be part of the $100,000 project. And that they expected a 25 year window rather than the five immediate years the plan addresses. (There is a large amount of forward planning in it, designed to feed into the LEP.) The Land Use Strategy costing $65,000, was just part of this planning processes.

The Bungendore Residents Association have made a copy of the draft available in PDF format here. There will be one on the council website as well I’m sure. There are a  number of large maps which we haven’t put online but smaller versions are included in this main document. Please read it.

As the council Business Paper says, it..

Engages and involves the Community in the project of preparing new planning
instruments for the Palerang Local Government Area (LGA) through a process of
significant community consultation involving public exhibition and invitation of written submissions. This is consistent with objectives of the LEP related funding agreement with Department of Planning under the Planning Reform Funding Program

So we have 28 days to make a BRG response to this plan. It has a number of assumptions that relate to infill development, and with the previous post setting an ‘Area suitable for Medium Density Development’ that is most of the old part of Bungendore.

Your comments on this would be appreciated as part of this response.

Fred Harden