Barry's NSW liberals are making NSW labor look good.
Its hard to imagine a more corrupt, incompentent government.
PLANNING Minister Matthew Guy has been accused of opening the floodgates for development along the Victorian coast with a surprise decision to rezone seaside farmland for housing at Phillip Island.
In a move that has riled local government, Mr Guy this week wrote to the Bass Coast Shire Council, explaining he had over-ruled them and would include a 5.7-hectare farming property known as the Cadogan land into the township of Ventnor
.
The reasons given by the minister for the intervention were that the owner of the land had requested the rezoning, residential rezoning would be good for housing affordability, and the new housing precinct could make use of the existing infrastructure and services at the Ventnor township.
But the council yesterday ridiculed the decision.
''There's no infrastructure,'' Cr Peter Paul said.
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/victoria/phillip-island-hospital-closes/story-e...''The only people who could support it are the developer and the real estate agent who sells the land. This is not just a Phillip Island issue; this is an issue for the entire Victorian coast.''
The council met Mr Guy last night in an unsuccessful attempt to prevent the development.
In a letter to Mr Guy, Bass Coast chief executive Allan Bawden said the council had decided to retain the land for farming following a 10-year strategic planning process.
One hundred submissions had called for the Ventnor town boundaries to be retained. Only one submission (from the owner) supported rezoning of the property.
The Age understands a mystery
purchaser
is waiting for the rezoning to be finalised
. Council sources said they were confident that the identity of that purchaser
would explain much about the minister's seemingly ad hoc intervention