Planning Proposal at Centre Road, Moama

28 March 2023

Public Hearing Report Adopted at Council Meeting

The public hearing for the planning proposal was held on Wednesday 22nd February 2023. Thank you to all those who have shared their thoughts with us.

Following the Public Hearing, a report was prepared by an Independant Chair which provided a summary of the public hearing, and discussed any submissions or comments received during the Hearing which was provided to Council and made available to the public within 4 days of the public hearing. A Council Report was then prepared and heard at the March Council meeting which recommended the Planning Proposal proceed to finalisation. This recommendation was carried unanimously by Councilors; therefore, Council prepared the finalisation report, and the Planning Proposal was sent to the Department of Planning and Environment (DPE) to finalise as the Plan Making Authority. The Department of Planning and Environment will provide further correspondence on the progress of the Planning Proposal, and this information will be made available in the near future.

All information regarding this proposal is available in the Key Documents menu to your right.

Planning Proposal to reclassify Council owned land from 'Community' to 'Operational' at Centre Road, Moama

Lot 3 DP813704, Centre Road, Moama is a 200 hectare parcel of land located approximately 13km north-east of Moama’s town centre. The land came into Council ownership on 29 August 2018 as part of an agreement with a third party to purchase the land from Council and subsequently construct an ethanol plant. The third party chose not to pursue the purchase of the land from Council and has now ceased their plans to establish an ethanol plant in Moama. Council retained ownership of the subject land with the aim to eventually provide a site for future commercial activities near the Moama township. As the site is currently classified as 'community land', before any future potential for this site can be realised, the land is required to be reclassified to 'operational land' via a Planning Proposal. At the Council meeting on 23 August 2022, Council endorsed Planning Proposal 2022-2347, which if adopted will:

• Use the provisions of Clause 5.2 of the Murray Local Environmental Plan 2011 (LEP) to reclassify Lot 3 DP813704 from ‘community land’ to ‘operational land’.
• Amend Schedule 4, Part 1 of the Murray LEP 2011 to include Lot 3 DP813704

Council is required to undertake a number of formal processes, which have been detailed in the Planning Proposal. All the documents and information associated with the Proposal are available in the 'key documents' panel to your right. As no formal plans for the site have been finalised, there are no plans or designs for a included as part of the Planning Proposal. Any future development of the site will be subject to a future process at a later date.

For any questions relating to the Proposal or the process, please chat with our Planning team (see the 'Who's Listening' tab to your right).