APPENDIX K Social Impact Assessment Dendrobium Mine - Plan for the Future - Social Impact Assessment DENDROBIUM MINE - PLAN FOR THE FUTURE: COAL FOR STEELMAKING PROJECT SOCIAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT APRIL 2019 I Dendrobium Mine - Plan for the Future - Social Impact Assessment 1 Introduction ........................................................................................................ 1 1.1 Project elements ....................................................................................................... 1 1.1.1 Existing mine ....................................................................................................... 2 1.1.2 Project works and operations .............................................................................. 3 1.1.3 Project workforce ................................................................................................. 3 1.1.4 Suppliers and customers ..................................................................................... 4 1.1.5 South32 Policy framework ................................................................................... 4 1.2 Requirements for Social Impact Assessment ....................................................... 5 1.2.1 Secretary’s Environmental Assessment Requirements ....................................... 5 1.2.2 SIA Guideline ....................................................................................................... 6 1.2.3 Objectives ............................................................................................................ 7 1.3 SIA engagement ....................................................................................................... 7 1.3.1 Key issues raised ................................................................................................. 8 1.3.2 Dendrobium Community Consultative Committee ............................................... 9 1.3.3 Community survey ............................................................................................... 9 1.3.4 Residents affected by rail noise ......................................................................... 10 1.3.5 Indigenous stakeholders .................................................................................... 10 1.3.6 Local Government ............................................................................................. 10 1.3.7 Social infrastructure providers ........................................................................... 10 1.3.8 Local businesses ............................................................................................... 10 1.3.9 Dendrobium Mine employees ............................................................................ 10 1.4 Method ..................................................................................................................... 11 1.4.1 Scoping and preliminary significance assessment ............................................ 11 1.4.2 Social baseline ................................................................................................... 11 1.4.3 Assessment ....................................................................................................... 12 1.4.4 Mitigation, management and monitoring ............................................................ 12 2 Scope ................................................................................................................ 13 2.1 Stakeholder inputs to SIA scope .......................................................................... 13 2.1.1 Dendrobium Community Consultative Committee ............................................. 13 2.1.2 Community survey ............................................................................................. 13 2.1.3 Community complaints ...................................................................................... 14 2.2 Matters considered ................................................................................................. 15 2.3 Area of social influence ......................................................................................... 15 2.3.1 Local communities ............................................................................................. 15 2.3.2 Regional communities ....................................................................................... 17 2.3.3 Inter-regional and State impacts ........................................................................ 18 2.3.4 Statistical geography ......................................................................................... 18 2.4 Potential impacts .................................................................................................... 19 2.4.1 Direct impacts .................................................................................................... 20 2.4.2 Indirect impacts .................................................................................................. 20 2.4.3 Cumulative impacts ........................................................................................... 20 2.4.4 Links to EIS findings .......................................................................................... 21 2.5 Preliminary assessment of social impacts .......................................................... 22 2.6 Focus for investigation .......................................................................................... 30 3 Social Baseline ................................................................................................. 32 3.1 Surroundings .......................................................................................................... 32 II Dendrobium Mine - Plan for the Future - Social Impact Assessment 3.1.1 Wollongong LGA ................................................................................................ 32 3.1.2 Local communities ............................................................................................. 34 3.1.3 Transport and access ........................................................................................ 36 3.1.4 Access to and use of ecosystem services ......................................................... 37 3.2 Personal and property rights ................................................................................ 38 3.2.1 Planned land uses ............................................................................................. 38 3.2.2 Affected private landholdings ............................................................................. 39 3.2.3 Affected public landholdings .............................................................................. 39 3.2.4 Residential amenity ........................................................................................... 40 3.3 Culture ..................................................................................................................... 41 3.3.1 Traditional owners’ values ................................................................................. 41 3.3.2 Cultural diversity ................................................................................................ 42 3.4 Community .............................................................................................................. 42 3.4.1 Planning, governance and decision-making systems ........................................ 42 3.4.2 Community identity ............................................................................................ 44 3.4.3 Sense of place ................................................................................................... 45 3.4.4 Community profile .............................................................................................. 46 3.4.5 Community cohesion ......................................................................................... 50 3.5 Way of life ................................................................................................................ 50 3.5.1 Economic strengths ........................................................................................... 50 3.5.2 Labour force ....................................................................................................... 51 3.5.3 Key industries .................................................................................................... 52 3.5.4 Occupational profile ........................................................................................... 52 3.5.5 Unemployment trends ........................................................................................ 53 3.5.6 Housing access ................................................................................................. 54 3.6 Services and infrastructure ................................................................................... 58 3.6.1 Childcare ............................................................................................................ 58 3.6.2 Schools .............................................................................................................. 58 3.6.3 Tertiary education .............................................................................................. 59 3.6.4 Hospital and health services .............................................................................. 59 3.6.5 Police and emergency services ......................................................................... 59 3.6.6 Community services 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