In these pages we have compiled some arguments against the proposal to construct a canal estate development on the footprint of the Ralphs Bay Conservation Area at Lauderdale.
This section will be updated frequently as more information comes to hand. There are links to useful documents and sites below
By all means use these points but please try to use your own words and individual style and remember that the arguments here are not exhaustive.
If possible, your submission should consider how well the DIIS deals with the RPDC Scope Guidelines for the IIS. Link to Scope Guidelines (very slow to load).
To help you give direction to your arguments, we have included quotes from the Executive Summary of the DIIS and the DIIS itself with page numbers.
It is expected that you will want to read these quotes in context. You can download the DIIS at:Link to DIIS (very slow to load).
A free Executive Summary and CD-Rom version of the full document are available from:
Walker Corporation, PO Box 2056, Lower Sandy Bay TAS 7005. Contact Walker Corporation by telephone: 0458 044 448.
Link to the RPDC web site for more on document viewing locations, timelines and submissions.
The information is organised according to the categories in the menu on the left of this page.
Closing date for submissions: no later than 4.30pm on 6 April 2009
Make sure you include your contact details.
Post or email your submission to:
Resource Planning and Development Commission
GPO Box 1691
Hobart TAS 7001
RPDC contact:
Phone: (03) 6233 2795
Fax: (03) 6233 5400
Email: enquiry.rpdc@justice.tas.gov.au
Send us your feedback and all the best with your writing
Save Ralphs Bay Inc.
Some useful documents and links:
- Download A print friendly copy of arguments against the development .
- Download some highly quotable quotes from the DIIS .
- The RPDC web site for lodging submissions
- Download the DIIS and Executive Summary from Walker Corporation's web site.
- Visit Walker Corporation's feedback web site: www.ralphsbay.net.au/feedback.asp
- Download our latest Newsletter .
- Brief history of the campaign to save Ralphs Bay, 2004-2009 .
- Canal estate bans and excerpts from the Victorian Coastal Strategy 2008 .
The 2006 Conservation Area Clarification Actand Map (Click here for the map)
"SCHEDULE 1 - Ralphs Bay Conservation Area
1. All that land comprising about 171 hectares as shown as Lot 1 and bounded by a heavy black line on Plan 7395 in the Central Plan Register, a reduced copy of which is set out, by way of illustration only, in Schedule 2 except for that part of that land that may be determined by the Resource Planning and Development Commission as being necessary or convenient for the project of State significance referred to in the State Policies and Projects (Project of State Significance) Order 2006 to proceed. " from www.thelaw.tas.gov.au.