Welcome
to the website of the Careel Bay Pittwater Protection Association
(CBPPA).
Our members
and supporters hail from the local community and further afield
to include those that recognise the wonder of Careel Bay.
Our purpose
is to preserve and protect this unique area for current and
future generations.
It is
again under threat from inappropriate develoment.
Please
read more about why Careel Bay is so special, our challenges,
our objectives and what you can do to support us in protecting
the Bay.
If you
share our values, please Join
us NOW.
Careel
Bay near Avalon is an inlet of Pittwater, a waterway located
on the northern beaches about 38 kilometres north of Sydney.
The area
has been a popular playgound with locals and visitors for
decades. It is a beautiful and unspoilt sailing, fishing,
kayaking spot. There is a public wharf adjoining a boatshed
which under various managers has serviced the boating fraternity
since the early 1900s.
It is
a well known haven for walkers and young families who come
to sit on the edge and feed the ducks.
Careel
Bay is also an extremely important area from an environmental
point of view providing habitat for marine life and bird species.
It is a sheltered bay with extensive marine sea grass flats
and a large stand of mangroves on its southeastern shores.
The area
is now under severe pressure from a Development Application
by Austral Monsoon Industries which includes a floating marina.
Latest
developments
The Member
for Pittwater, Rob Stokes continues to fight for the protection
of Careel Bay.
On 25
June 2009, Rob delivered a
Private Member's Statement to Parliament. His statement
read in part:
On
behalf of the community, I call on the Minister and, if it
is possible in this place, the court to reject this unsustainable
development for the same reasons that the Minister's predecessor
rejected it, including the fundamental inconsistency of the
proposal with principles of ecologically sustainable development,
the New South Wales coastal policy and State Environmental
Planning Policy 71—coastal protection.
The NSW
Court of Appeal Judgement handed down on 18 June 2009 means
that the
Minister's refusal of the original D.A. stands
BUT:
- Austral
Monsoon's appeal and amended D.A. will now be scheduled
for hearing in the Land and Environment Court
- Austral
Monsoon will seek to prove that the then Minister for Planning
(Frank Sartor) was wrong to refuse the original D.A.
- The
current Minister (Kristina Kenneally) and Pittwater Council
will need to convince the Land & Environment Court to
reject the appeal because the development will
damage Careel Bay.
The Careel
Bay Pittwater Protection Association will continue to oppose
this inappropriate development.
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