Public consultation 1
The first draft North Coast Regional Water Strategy, which considers water supply, reliability and security for over 300,000 people, was on public exhibition from 3 March – 16 May 2021.
The draft strategy was a set of 3 documents:
A comprehensive engagement and consultation program accompanied the release of the draft strategy. This included:
- face-to-face meetings
- online webinars
- formal submissions.
What we heard
We had strong stakeholder attendance for the engagement sessions and we received dozens of submissions. Key themes that emerged during this consultation include water quality, river health and ecosystems, climate change, Aboriginal people’s water rights, interests and access to water, managing increasing demand from different users, water conservation, reuse and recycling new and existing infrastructure and data collections for compliance and enforcement.
Submissions
We are sharing collected community and stakeholder submissions for the region along with cultural and general submissions.
- submission 1 Harry Johnson (PDF 148.7 KB)
- submission 2 (PDF 72.9 KB)
- submission 3 Andrew Moran (PDF 372.4 KB)
- submission 4 Andrew Moran addendum (PDF 68.5 KB)
- submission 5 Coffs Harbour City Council (PDF 304.9 KB)
- submission 6 Coffs Harbour City Council (PDF 622.3 KB)
- submission 7 Coffs Harbour City Council (PDF 169.5 KB)
- submission 8 NTSCorp (PDF 6.1 MB)
- submission 9 (PDF 2.5 MB)
- submission 10 (PDF 13.1 KB)
- submission 11 (PDF 143.6 KB)
- submission 12 (PDF 1.2 MB)
- submission 13 (PDF 143.0 KB)
- submission 14 (PDF 111.8 KB)
- submission 15 EES addendum (PDF 477.0 KB)
- submission 16 EES (PDF 1.0 MB)
- submission 17 Clarence Valley Council (PDF 152.1 KB)
- submission 18 (PDF 43.9 KB)
- submission 19 (PDF 2.6 MB)
- submission 20 Ray Smith (PDF 6.5 MB)
- submission 21 Ray Smith (PDF 29.0 KB)
- submission 22 Clarence Environment Centre Inc (PDF 602.2 KB)
- submission 23 Clarence Environment Centre Inc addendum (PDF 1.7 MB)
- submission 24 (PDF 19.7 KB)
- submission 25 (PDF 22.9 KB)
- submission 26 (PDF 25.7 KB)
- submission 27 (PDF 79.0 KB)
- submission 28 Roslyn Woodward (PDF 28.0 KB)
- submission 29 Dan Frogan (PDF 13.0 KB)
- submission 30 NC Local Land Services (PDF 319.5 KB)
- submission 31 (PDF 32.0 KB)
- submission 32 (PDF 19.2 KB)
- submission 33 (PDF 26.1 KB)
- submission 34 (PDF 469.1 KB)
- submission 35 (PDF 874.0 KB)
- submission 36 (PDF 28.5 KB)
- submission 37 (PDF 72.9 KB)
- submission 38 (PDF 28.6 KB)
- submission 39 (PDF 76.0 KB)
- submission 40 (PDF 77.8 KB)
- submission 41 (PDF 212.0 KB)
- submission 42 Oz Group Co-op Ltd (PDF 153.5 KB)
- submission 43 Armidale Regional Ratepayers (PDF 529.4 KB)
- submission 44 (PDF 21.6 KB)
- submission 45 (PDF 313.9 KB)
- submission 46 (PDF 30.2 KB)
- submission 47 Clarence Valley Conservation Coalition inc (PDF 539.9 KB)
- submission 48 (PDF 26.5 KB)
- submission 49 Port Macquarie Council (PDF 14.8 KB)
Public consultation 2
After incorporating the feedback from the community and doing further analysis, a second draft North Coast Regional Water Strategy was on a second public exhibition from 23 May to Sunday, 19 June 2022.
The second draft was a set of two documents:
What we heard
In the second round of the public exhibition of the draft North Coast Regional Water Strategy, 49 stakeholders participated, and we received 23 formal submissions. Stakeholders raised broadly consistent themes across public consultation phases 1 and 2, with the exception of an additional theme relating to how the strategy would be finalised, implemented and monitored.
Submissions
We are sharing collected community and stakeholder submissions for the region.
- Submission 1 (PDF 77.3 KB)
- Submission 2 (PDF 3.5 MB)
- Submission 3 (PDF 242.4 KB)
- Submission 4 – North Coast Environment Council (PDF 238.7 KB)
- Submission 5 – Armidale Regional Rate Payers Association (PDF 218.0 KB)
- Submission 6 (PDF 369.2 KB)
- Submission 7 (PDF 1.0 MB)
- Submission 8 (PDF 81.2 KB)
- Submission 9 – Clarence Environment Centre (PDF 609.2 KB)
- Submission 10 – Nature Conservation Council (PDF 151.2 KB)
- Submission 11 – John Ibbotson (PDF 2.3 MB)
- Submission 12 – Visions for Armidale Creeklands (PDF 237.4 KB)
- Submission 13 – Kyogle Council (PDF 10.4 MB)
- Submission 14 (PDF 122.8 KB)
- Submission 15 (PDF 118.4 KB)
- Submission 16 (PDF 137.8 KB)
- Submission 17 (PDF 116.1 KB)
- Submission 18 – NSW Farmers Nambucca Heads (PDF 268.9 KB)
- Submission 19 – Clarence Valley Conservation Coalition (PDF 614.0 KB)
- Submission 20 – Clarence Valley Council (PDF 154.4 KB)
- Submission 21 – Yaegle Traditional Owners Aboriginal Corporation RNTBC (PDF 530.1 KB)