A new alliance of dozens of community groups campaigning to defend small coastal towns and pockets of sensitive and endangered coastal bushland from inappropriate developments launched at the NSW Parliament recently.
NSW Greens MPs, Cate Faehrmann MLC and Sue Higginson MLC, said in a press release, ‘Many of the developments being opposed are so-called “zombie” developments, approved decades ago, and therefore escaping the need for any environmental, cultural or other impact assessments required under modern-day planning laws’.
Thirty-four community groups are listed as members of Coastal Residents United (CRU), and range as far north as a Kingscliff (Ratepayers and Progress Association) and include Byron Bay Vision and Byron Residents’ Group.
