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STEP Matters STEP Matters Number 178 November 2014 With the end of 2014 fast approaching we wish LOCAL COUNCIL AMALGAMATIONS you all a relaxing Christmas and New Year One issue in the 2015 NSW state election that period with time to enjoy the great outdoors. could have a significant influence on the future We look forward to a new year with an important development of NSW is the proposed restructuring state election. There are some promising signs of local government. The map shows the current that the politicians have been listening to the proposal for council amalgamations. concerns of the community about coal seam gas The table gives the size of the current council mining. But the headlong development rush areas in northern Sydney, the combined continues to the detriment of the environment and population of the amalgamated areas and the community wellbeing. At the federal level high likely number of councillors from each area in the population growth, the source of many of our merged entity based on electoral size. problems, and the assault on the environment continue unabated. Population in 2013 Number of Council † (ABS Series 3218.0) councillors In this issue of STEP Matters we cover: Ku-ring-gai 119,000 4 Local Council Amalgamations ............................................ 1 Hornsby 167,000 6 End of Year Barbeque ....................................................... 2 Total 286,000 Local News ........................................................................ 2 North Sydney 69,000 2 State Government News .................................................... 4 Lane Cove 34,000 1 STEP Lecture: Prof Emma Johnston ................................. 4 Willoughby 73,000 2 World Parks Congress ....................................................... 5 Mosman 29,000 1 Scientific and Community Views Hunters Hill 14,000 1 on Coal and Gas Mining .................................................... 5 2/3 Ryde* 75,333 3 10/50 Bushfire Clearing Laws Fiasco Realised .................. 6 Total 294,333 Vale Neroli Lock ................................................................ 7 Manly 44,000 2 What our Love Affair with Coffee Pods Pittwater 62,000 2 Reveals about our Values .................................................. 8 Warringah 153,000 6 Annual Report for the Year to October 2014 ...................... 9 Total 259,000 Young Scientist Award ..................................................... 10 * Remainder of Ryde in Holroyd † Local Events and Information .......................................... 11 Assuming there are ten councillors for each STEP Information ............................................................ 11 merged entity and new electorates are based on Order Form ...................................................................... 12 population size STEP Inc Community-based Environmental Conservation since 1978 [email protected] PO Box 5136, Turramurra, NSW 2074 ABN 55 851 372 043 www.step.org.au Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/STEP.Inc.Sydney Twitter: @STEPSydney Most councils have been critical of the proposed Let us know your views mergers. Of 41 Sydney metro councils only We will provide more commentary as the seven were assessed as having a weak financial election date draws nearer. In the meantime, performance. Size was not a significant factor, for please contact us with answers to the following example the very small Hunters Hill Council was questions at [email protected] and let us not financially weak. Indeed small councils are know if you: often more accountable in their spending as their • support amalgamation (type yca in the councillors can know in greater detail what is subject line) going on and they are more attune to their • do not support amalgamation (type nca in residents genuine needs. In any case financial the subject line) performance is not the issue. After all financially weak councils can be placed under 1. Were you aware of the current NSW administration. The NSW Government has made Government’s program to abolish your it clear that Sydney metropolitan councils must council area? demonstrate that they have the scale and 2. Would you like to have been informed? capacity to deal with the consequences of the 3. Is it an important issue for you? high population growth targets that have been set 4. Do you believe that the mergers proposed for their region and Greater Sydney. will improve your area? The timetable for the amalgamation program is 5. Do you believe this should be an election quite tight. Councils are required to lodge their issue? submissions by 30 June 2015 (after the state 6. Should there be a referendum regarding election). These will be reviewed by a Minister’s council mergers? Advisory Committee that will make recommendations to the Minister by October END OF YEAR BARBEQUE 2015. New elections will be held for the Our end of year barbeque will be held on amalgamated councils in September 2016. Sunday 14 December at Queen Elizabeth Ku-ring-gai Council in a detailed report on the Reserve, Bradfield Road, West Lindfield. proposed merger with Hornsby (Council Starting time is 4.30 pm but we will get there Meeting, 11 Nov, 2014, GB1) states: earlier to reserve a barbeque. … An amalgamation of Ku-ring-gai Council If the weather is bad we will meet elsewhere with Hornsby Council would expose Ku-ring- and details will be posted on our website and gai Council to a wide range of risks on Facebook by 3 pm on the day. including reduced representation and less This is a good opportunity to meet other STEP say in decision making for the local area … members and catch up on recent events. (see the table above) In previous years we have held the barbeque … The total residential land value in Ku- behind Neroli and Harry Lock’s home in Leuna ring-gai is $23.3b (for approx. 39,500 Avenue, Wahroonga but sadly Neroli lost her properties) while in Hornsby it is $20.7b (for long battle with cancer last month. Some approx. 54,000 properties) … Assuming the details of the tremendous work she did for our total rates raised for an amalgamated local environment are given on page 7. Council remained the same as the sum of the rates raised by the individual councils, LOCAL NEWS preliminary calculations indicate that the New Plant Species rates for properties in the former area of Ku- ring-gai could increase by up to 17% in an A new species of Hibbertia has been amalgamation with Hornsby ... These discovered in Turramurra. Andrew Robinson, additional rates would be more than double Bushland Officer at Ku-ring-gai Council realised Ku-ring-gai Council’s possible share of the the plant was different to the 50 other species hypothetical savings forecast by KPMG in found in NSW but had to wait until it flowered an amalgamation with Hornsby … before he could instigate the intricate process involved in identification and recognition. In an amalgamated Council the high land values in Ku-ring-gai would also mean that it would be a preferred area for further sales of Council-owned land to pay for the infrastructure upgrades needed with population growth. Once the councils are merged their planning instruments will need to be replaced. More limiting criteria for environmentally protected land could see the release of significant areas of reserves for sale and urban development to Photo: Wolter Peeters help pay for new infrastructure and facilities. 2 The plant lives in light clay soil occurring on a The documents are available at shale sandstone soil transition. Since its http://www.kmc.nsw.gov.au/Plans_regulations/ identification other examples have been found General/Preliminary_draft_documents_for_Can in North Ryde and Cheltenham but it has been oon_Road_Recreation_Area provisionally listed as critically endangered St Ives Showground Precinct under the Threatened Species Act. In June 2010 Ku-ring-gai Council adopted an Andrew has given the plant a common name of Options Paper, similar to a master plan, for the Julian’s Hibbertia, named in honour of Julian St Ives Showground and Precinct Lands and Poulton, a close bushwalking friend who died resolved to prepare a draft Plan of suddenly several years ago. Management based on this Paper incorporating Canoon Road Netball Complex all sites within the precinct. Ku-ring-gai Council has recently held Now more than four years later, in the usual community consultations with local residents flurry of activity at the end of the year, Council living near Canoon Road, South Turramurra has resolved to proceed with a similar about a revised plan of management. management plan based on the same Options Feedback was invited but residents were given Paper. only a week to respond with a closing date of St Ives Showground and precinct covers areas 24 November. However the Draft Plan of on two sides of Mona Vale Road, abutting Management includes many areas that haven’t Garigal National Park to the south-east and been finalised and need to be investigated. Ku-ring-gai Chase National Park to the north- Constructive comments could be considered by west including: Council. • Ku-ring-gai Wildflower Garden The most vexed issue as always is traffic and • Ku-ring-gai Nursery parking. The Netball Association has requested • St Ives Showground an additional 50 to 100 parking spaces to • HART training facility site facilitate growth however the draft • disused green waste tip acknowledges there is limited room for such expansion under Council’s obligations to The plan defines the permitted and protect the high-quality nearby bushland. Given recommended uses that the Council may that this problem is greatest on Saturday approve for all the areas covered. The plan will mornings for six months of the year it is go on public exhibition for ten weeks and unreasonable to allow an expansion of the submissions will close around mid February (to complex. The netball clubs need to do more to be confirmed). STEP will be making a use coordinated transport options such as submission. carpooling or use of public transport. Aspects of particular interest to STEP are: The Canoon Road area is where STEP began (1) Mini Wheels Training Club Track in 1978 when locals tried to stop the development of this complex.
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