Matt Thistlethwaite (Kingsford Smith, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Assistant Minister for Financial Services) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

The community of Little Bay has a big fight on its hands. The Meriton Group is proposing one of the most outrageous cases of overdevelopment in this small community. The Meriton proposal will see high-rise towers on Little Bay Cove cast a dark shadow over the future of this coastal community.

This big developer has ignored the approved master plan for the site, which already permits lower density, low-rise residential development of up to six stories. But, no, that's not good enough for Meriton. They've come in with a proposal for 22-storey towers and a hotel on the site. That translates to nearly 2,000 more units in blocks of up to 22 storeys, along with the hotel, and yet the existing master plan was in place when Meriton bought the land in 2017. They knew very well what they were buying and now they're selling out the Little Bay community. It's a developer that wants to double the population in an area that's already struggling with traffic congestion and poor public transport.

Around 4,000 locals have already signed a petition against this outrageous case of overdevelopment. This Sunday, a community led rally against Meriton's rezoning application will start at McCartney Oval in Little Bay from two o'clock. I'll be joining the rally with a large number of others from our community, and I encourage everyone who is from a community that is sick of Meriton developments destroying their area to come along to Little Bay on Sunday afternoon and have their say about this outrageous case of overdevelopment.