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Monday 4 February 2019

Questions for 2019

Questions for 2019

       By the end of 2018, Rosny Hill Friends Network had compiled details of key  Clarence City Council documents which outlined the process involved in the proposal for a luxury hotel in the Rosny Hill Nature Recreation Area. These documents were retrieved from the Clarence City Council website and a hyperlinked list was produced for anyone to access if they wanted a copy from us, so that they could read the original documents for themselves. These hyperlinks no longer work. A new website is up and running at CCC. There is little of the history of the development proposal available.

                                 (Public domain; retrieved from Wikimedia Commons Jan.2019)

This is Janus, Roman God of transitions. Of reflecting and looking forward. January is named after him and January has been a time of looking back and looking forward at Rosny Hill Friends Network.

Looking back produced a number of questions:

Council received this advice in 2012: “Given the high margins in tourist accommodation, the scale of an accommodation facility can be kept relatively small (e.g. possibly 10-15 cabins).” 
        How did  this recommendation  translate  into  a  100-unit resort  proposal  complete with  swimming  pool and  conference  centre?

        Why  didn’t Council  undertake  any development  to  improve residential  amenity  such as  installing  a boom-gate  to  reduce cars  hooning  on the  hill  at night?

       Why did Clarence City Council, in the 2015  Interim  Planning Scheme,  zone  Rosny Hill  differently  from similar  hills  in other  City  of Clarence  villages. Natone  Hill, Lindisfarne; Gordon’s Hill, Rose Bay; Waverly Flora Park, Bellerive  and  Glebe Hill  Reserve  in the  new  Glebe Hill  subdivision.  These are  all  zoned Open  Space.  No hotels  allowed.  So why  Rosny Hill?

       Planning Schemes  and  Council Minutes  are  complex and  formal.  Can the  Council’s  actions of  the  last 9  years  be put  into  a more   everyday  style of  language?  

       Did  Council see  Rosny  Hill primarily  as  a cash  cow  to enhance  general  revenue rather  than  a priceless  community  resource to  be  developed for  residents  along the  lines  of Glebe  Hill  Reserve?

       Was  Rosny Hill zoned  with  community values  in  mind?

       Which  Actions listed in  the  Rosny Hill  Nature  Recreation Area  Management Strategy (non statutory) have actually been  completed?

       Has  the whole nine-year  process  wasted ratepayer  resources  that could  have  been directly  applied  to improving  the  Nature Recreation  Area?

       Had  our elected  representatives  of that time actually been trapped  in  a development  ‘filter  bubble?’ 

       Here we are in 2019 with a new council. Nine of these councillors have strongly expressed their commitment to community consultation before the 2018 election. Let us hope that this commitment becomes action.

       Another change is the impending Tasmanian Planning Scheme. Clarence City Council submitted  Draft Local Provision Schedules to the Planning Commission in 2018. Here is a relevant zoning map from that document.






Now it is interesting to note that under the Tasmanian Planning Scheme,  only caravan and camping is allowed in the Recreation Zone.

So what are the pressures?


Will the developers try to force through their DA while the 2015 interim planning scheme is still in operation?

Must those citizens who object to the 2018 proposal be poised to voice their objections at short notice?

What will be the future of Rosny Hill if a new planning scheme is in operation?

What is the best resource that it can be for the local community and Greater Hobart?

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