Kariong Sand and Soil Supplies Facility

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Attached are the following documents objecting to teh proposed
development:

1. Frank Tripolone Objection Letter

2. Objection Letters from eight (8) other individuals

3. Joint Regional Planning Panel Determination regarding a previous
application for a similar development lodged by the same
applicant/owner at their property located close by a 168 Somersby
Falls Rd. This application was refused, and this refusal helps support
the reasons why this development at 90 Gindurra Road should not be
approved.

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To:
Planning Services
NSW Dept of Planning and Environment
GPO Box 39
Sydney NSW 2001

Attn: Director - Industry Assessments

Relating to:
Application no: SSD 8660
Location: 90 Gindurra Rd, Somersby
(Lot 4 DP 227279)
Applicant: Davis Earthmoving & Quarrying P/L
Council Area: Central Coast
Consent Authority: Minister for Planning or
Independent Planning Authority

Dear Sir,

I object strongly to this Application no. SSD 8660 for all of the
following very pertinent reasons:

1. It involves the excessive dumping of construction and demolition
waste (like crushed concrete and disused bitumen, not just sand and
soil) within the nearby Somersby Industrial Park where the other
legitimate SME business owners do not want a garbage dump next to
their legitimate businesses.

2. It involves having a 200,000 tonne crushing and waste management
facility bordering rural properties and within 50 meters of family
homes. You can see this is totally out of character with the area's
farming nature and the local natural environment.

3. Gindurra Road and the other local access roads from the M1 are
quite unsuitable for over 200 trucks per day travelling over them past
local front doors causing vastly increased traffic congestion for the
residents as well as unbearable noise and vibration for them too.
Acoustic barriers will help but will likely prove insufficient for the
local residents. The traffic survey (1 hour on 1 day) carried out so
far for the applicant is extremely limited in scope and proves to be
completely unreliable for future planning.

4. This development will definitely lead to seriously reduced air
quality for nearby residents and animals due to the inevitable
presence of silica dust (a carcinogen) from the planned operations
there. You must be aware of the established future risks of silicosis
and lung cancer (like mesothelioma) from breathing in silica
(respirable alpha-quartz) dust from crushed concrete, not just some
arbitrary limit but any amount of respirable crystalline silica. There
is no cure for silicosis.

5. This facility is planned to be sited not just near family homes but
also within 100 meters of Riding (horses) for the Disabled, 300 meters
of the Juvenile Justice Centre (boys from 16-21yo), 600 meters from Mt
Penang Gardens (visitors), 700 meters from Kariong Mountains High
School (boys and girls from 12-18yo) and 1200 meters from Kariong
township where I live. North-westerly winds will carry this air
pollution and noise over all these nearby places, risking long-term
damage and perhaps incurable afflictions.

6. Asbestos has already been found on the applicant's site. The risk
of airborne asbestos generated from the applicant's earthworks and
causing incurable asbestosis for workers and nearby residents is
totally unacceptable.

7. There is already a shed on the site twice the GCC- approved size.
The height, size and bulk of the proposed facility (the hardstand)
will be a visual eyesore and quite out of character with the
surrounding forest and farming landscape with its rural residential
blocks.

8. The stockpiling of industrial waste on the site will likely produce
offensive and disagreeable smells for local residents and recreational
users. It remains to be ascertained whether the planned industrial
waste is non-putrescible or not.

9. The locality of Somersby is currently a tourist attraction for
visitors to Somersby Falls and the well-known Somersby Reptile Park,
and so a nearby crushing / waste-dumping plant has no attraction for
visitors passing by.

10. Clearing the northern part of the site will destroy 1.5 hectares
of habitat of the endangered pygmy possum and a rare prostrate
Hibbertia species, which contradicts the Central Coast Council's
professed desire that land use planning and development be sustainable
and environmentally sound in the LGA.

11. Hundreds of Aboriginal archeological artefacts, products of
prehistoric aboriginal workmanship, are found throughout the Somersby
area and clearing this whole site will likely destroy what remains of
this art there.

12. The Central Coast Council's plan for its region proposes a
Southern Growth Corridor stretching from Somersby to Erina with
significant capacity for economic growth in employment and
infrastructure along it. However the strengths the Council is looking
for in this area are in warehousing and logistics in a productive
natural environment, not dumping industrial waste on an unsuitable
site.

13. Siting a Resource Recovery Waste facility on this site will
severely reduce the surrounding house and land values of Somersby
residents causing them great dissatisfaction and stress with the
approval process in the medium-term.

14. This application promotes a "Resource Recovery" operation, but it
is nothing of the sort. Virtually the whole of the material will be
buried in storage bunkers, not recovered after the crushing. This site
is utterly unsuitable for a worthwhile, sustainable and long-term
solution to urban industrial waste disposal and the applicant needs to
look further afield for a suitable site for its business, not in the
Somersby area.

I hope you will consider these 14 objections closely and carefully.
You may be considering conducting further investigation into any or
all aspects of these objections as needed, but I can find no redeeming
feature of the proponent's application.
Please reject this application.

Yours sincerely,



Murray Scott
(Kariong resident)

[18 Olive Kari Close,
Kariong NSW 2250]

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