I have been researching the history of the North Arm Cove paper subdivision, including what developers were doing to market the land many years ago, and how they were saying that in the not too distant future the land would be rezoned and landowners would be permitted to build houses on their land.
After complaints from landowners, there were a number of newspaper articles about this, and questions were even raised in the NSW Parliament.
In response to pressure to rezone this land to permit residential development, the then Council (Great Lakes Council) and the NSW Department of Planning issued fact sheets in the early 2000's stating that they did not support housing on this land, and there was little prospect of this changing for 25+ years (beyond 2031).
A copy of these fact sheets is appended.
With the proposed rezoning to Environmental Management and Environmental Conservation zones, it is likely that housing will not be permitted on this land for many more decades.
