The term ‘State Significant Development‘ is a blatantly corrupt authoritarian overreach against due process and democracy!   

It is a politically bureacratic term apparently unique to the New South Wales Government’s Planning Department.   Some years ago, the term was conceived as a legal process to enable the NSW Government to overrule planning rules, zoning, and residential democratic rights of elected local councils across the State of New South Wales.  It well could be equated to a policy out of the dictatorship of China’s Communist Party’s manifesto in Beijing.

“The NSW State Significant Development (SSD) pathway, which manages projects of state importance under the Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979, was formally gazetted and started on 25 May 2005.   This policy consolidated previous, varied planning instruments to create a unified assessment process for major projects.”  [SOURCE:  Google AI, whatever that means]

We note that Labor’s Premier Bob Carr Robert John CARR was in power at the time (4 April 1995 – 3 August 2005); so this was a Labor Party policy from the outset.

 

In this particular matter, there remains a wee remnant natural bush block at the edge of The Gully (west Katoomba) remnant alongside a small side street termed by someone, perhaps of Scottish ancestry not unlike this author, named  ‘Glencoe Road‘.  

 

 

VAST WILDERNESS !

 

 

Non-Scots and those of non-Scottish ancestry (unlike this author of 42% ancestral Scottish DNA), will likely have no idea of the historical tragedy, significance, nor immense sadness the name ‘Glencoe’ resonates with those who do so.  We know not of where or whom came up with this naming of this side avenue as such but as perhaps a gesture of tribute to the memory of that barbaric betrayal and Scottish massacre of 1692. 

But do any read history these days, so it may not be repeated?   Glencoe Avenue so named is situated in the outer west of Katoomba, just walking distance from where one lives, and named likely many decade ago (by whom one wonders?).

This latest highrise monstrosity Sydney urban has been proposed out on our World Heritage doorstep:

Does Sydney’s NSW Government culturally regard the entire state of New South Wales to be its outer urban Sydney urban right out to bloody Broken Hill and Tibooburra?  Macquarie Street has recently morphed its Sydney Water utility department into WaterNSW – implying one might be somewhat on to the urbane polly globalist bastards!  Governor Lachlan Macquarie (indeed a Scot) in 1815 ventured out west to now Bathurst and had his name enshrined on the Macquarie River there.  Nothing friggen changes.

The following is an aerial map of the proposed highrise development site location situated on the western edge of the regional township of Katoomba on the Blue Mountains central plateau, aurrounded by World Heritage forests.  Note our superimposed yellow circle of the development site (currently intact bushland).   Our added larger superimposed green rectangle on this aerial map indicates roughly the natural water catchment area of Katoomba Falls Creek Valley (encompassing ‘The Gully’), as situated above Katoomba Falls  – which is labelled to the south. 

 

 

Why the hammer and sickle China Communist Party logo in this image above?   Well, there is every indicating that this massive highwrise development is for a foreign college, and mot likely for purely Chinese immigrants on the pretence of being a student campus with 200+ bed studio accommodation, education facilities and a canteen.  Hello! We didn’t come down it the latest rain shower!  Consider the nearby Leura ursupation off Scotts Avenue by a Chinese-only students campus accommodation!

Probably the Scottist heraldic Campbell clan of yore would choose to forget the name ‘Glencoe’.  One’s proud Scottish ancestry of the MacEwan clan, know the uncomfortable truth of Scottish history associated with Glencoe, a remote ancient village in Scotland located nor far from the town of Fort William, Scotland.  Look it up!

 

 

 

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References and Further Reading:

 

[1]   ‘Massacre of Glencoe‘,  (Scotland, 1692), Wikipedia, ^https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massacre_of_Glencoe

 

[2]  ‘State significant development assessment process’,  by NSW Government Planning (Department),  ^https://www.planningportal.nsw.gov.au/major-projects/assessment/state-significant-development/ssd-process

 

[3]  ‘Premiers of New South Wales, 1856 – present‘, by Parliament of New South Wales, ^https://www.parliament.nsw.gov.au/about/Pages/Premiers-of-New-South-Wales-1856-present.aspx

 

[4]   ‘Planning circular – PS 05-002 – State significant development‘, by NSW Government’,  

 

[5]  ‘State Significant Development‘ – Developments with significant economic, social or environmental impacts may be classified as state significant’,  NSW Government, Planning (Department),  ^https://www.planning.nsw.gov.au/assess-and-regulate/development-assessment/planning-approval-pathways/state-significant-development

 

[6]   ‘The Part 3A system for assessing major projects was repealed in 2011.1 Major project assessment has since been replaced by two separate assessment pathways‘, 

 

[7]   ‘State significant development assessment process‘, NSW Government, ^‘https://www.planningportal.nsw.gov.au/major-projects/assessment/state-significant-development/ssd-process‘,  

 

[8]   ‘Glencoe’, Scotland, ^https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glencoe,_Highland

 

[9]    ‘Massacre of Glen Coe‘,  Britannica, ^https://www.britannica.com/topic/Jacobite-British-history

 

[10]   ‘Glencoe Folk Museum‘,  Glencoe Village, Glencoe, Scotland, PH49 4HS, ^https://www.glencoemuseum.com/massacre-of-glencoe

 

[11]   ‘Foregotten Massacre of Jacobite Rebellion Uncovered: Scotland’s Darkest Secret‘, ^https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ScIPHTCljLE