Members of the Save Thirroul Village (STV) and Thirroul Village Committee (TVC) have been reliably informed that the proponents of the development of Thirroul Plaza have taken their Development Application (DA) to the Land and Environment Court for determination.
Under the Environmental Planning and Assessment Act, proponents have the ability to enact a “deemed refusal” clause – basically, that if they feel assessment has taken too long, they can have the courts take over the determination.
It’s been 18 months since the first iteration of the DA, and Council and Transport for NSW continue to be unsatisfied with the level of detail in the application, as well as a long list of issues that have not been adequately addressed in their proposal.
All this means that the DA will be re-exhibited (again!) and the community will need to make submissions.
At press time on Monday, 23 August, the exhibition period had just begun and was set to run until 8 September 2021.
To keep up to date with what is happening, please visit the STV website and STV Facebook and Instagram. In addition, you can check the TVC website. If you made an earlier submission to Council regarding the previous iteration of the DA you may receive notification from Council.
Once again we need to make sure that our voices are heard and our concerns about this large development are taken into consideration. It is our Village, after all.
Editor's note: This article was submitted just before 2515's print deadline in August and both SVT and TVC have updated information on their websites.
On Save Thirroul Village: "YES – its baaack! For the third time DA-2020/363 is being re-exhibited as the developer is taking the council to the Land and Environment Court. There is some new information, but no major changes, but you do need to send another submission by 8 September 2021." Read more here.
On Thirroul Village: "Several weeks ago the plaza developers intitiated legal action in the Land and Environment Court. They believe WCC is taking too long. Council believe their processes are correct, and that the developers are at fault with their poor application. This disagreement will be settled via a set legal process." Read more here.
