Greens Councillor Jayden Rivera wants council to formally oppose a proposed residential development along Kellerman Drive, St Helens Park.
In a notice of motion to be debated at tomorrow night’s council meeting, Cr Rivera is calling on council to lodge an objection to the proposal when it goes before Campbelltown Local Planning Panel.
The Greens councillor says the development would be bad for Campbelltown’s chlamydia free koala colony as well as the Cumberland shale-sandstone ironbark forest.
He says the residential development of more than 300 homes would impact approximately 18 hectares of core koala habitat and the critically endangered forest.
His motion states: “council’s reasons as to why the development application should be refused should include the detrimental impact the development proposal will have on an area of Campbeltown that is:
- “Considered to have an important relationship with the “strategic linkage area” identified under the Campbelltown Council koala plan of management;
- “A north south koala corridor identified by the NSW Chief Scientist;
- “A protected koala habitat under the Cumberland plain conservation plan;
- “An area containing Cumberland Shale-Sandstone Ironbark Forest identified as a critically endangered ecological community under both the Commonwealth Environmental Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act and the NSW Biodiversity Conservation Act 2016;
- “Is within the “Cumberland corridor of regional significance” mapped by the NSW Government.’’
Cr Rivera also wants council to reaffirm its commitment “to NSW’s largest population of chlamydia free koalas’’.
“The removal of core koala habitat endangers our unique population of koalas by reducing the local areas available for sustained growth of chlamydia free koalas and pushing them into areas that are not free of chlamydia,’’ Cr Rivera says on his notice of motion.
There are two other notices of motion on the last business paper of 2025.
Labor Councillor Ash Rahman wants council to provide an urgent report on the need to relocate the existing cricket practice nets at Macquarie Fields Park “due to community safety concerns’’.
And in the third notice of motion, Community First Totally Independent Party Councillor Warren Morrison, wants council to acknowledge the value of mentoring programs for community wellbeing and consider opportunities to promote established local mentoring programs.
A second part of his motion calls for information above to be shared publicly on council’s website and promoted where appropriate.
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