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SUBMISSION BY ACTIVE COMMUNITY TEAM ON THE DRAFT HELENSBURGH PLAN - Part 2
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7. CONCLUSIONS:
(1). Allow only environmentally acceptable urban consolidation within the existing urban zones so that environmental degradation is limited.
(2). Minimise clearance of bushland.
(3). Maintenance of Environmental Protection Zone 7(h)- Hacking.
(4). Make all discharges to the Hacking comply with the Protected Waters standard, including stormwater discharges
(5). Add all natural lands in the Hacking River catchment to the Royal¨ National Park, linking by wildlife corridors, the Illawarra escarpment¨ parklands to national park.
(6). Extend the Illawarra Escarpment State Recreation Area from the Hacking River Catchment to connect with existing parklands - so as to permanently protect the bushland between Sydney & Wollongong.
REFERENCES
1. E Bryant "Critique of the Helensburgh Water Quality Management Study, Rainfall Intensities and Recurrence Intervals" - Wollongong University Uniadvice 1990
2. CANS "Planning and Development in the Northern Suburbs - A¨ Community View" - A Submission by CANS to WCC in response to the Draft¨ Revision of LEP No.38, January 1989
3. H.C. Coombs "The Return of Scarcity - Strategies for an Economic Future." Cambridge Press 1990
4. David F Gordon "The Illawarra Escarpment Park ... a Proposal for Extensions to the Illawarra state Recreation Area" - Illawarra Environment Centre - June 1985¨
5. HDPS - Public Advocacy for Catchment Protection - the Role of the Helensburgh District Protection Society - 1989
6. NPWS "Australia's 100 years of National Parks", with foreword by Paul Landa
7. N Robinson "The Need for Joining Illawarra Wilderness Areas" Aust. Zool. 19(2) 1977 p125-132
8. Short, Nichols & Flentje "Critique of Urban Stormwater Runoff Control Measures Proposed in the Draft Helensburgh Plan 1990" - August 1990.
9. SPCC - Notice of Seminar - Report on the Hacking River River - 15 March 1989
10. SPCC "Hacking River - Total Catchment Management" - February 1989
11. SPCC "Investigation into the Impact of Urban Development at Helensburgh on Water Quality of the Hacking River" - March 1986.
12. SPCC "Pollution Control Manual for Urban Stormwater" August 1989
13. Water Research Centre "Comment on SPCC Report on 'Investigation into Water Quality of the Hacking River' " - April 1986
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