Cambria Green TPC Hearings to Commence

Media release – East Coast Alliance (ECA), 7 June 2022

Cambria Green TPC hearings to commence

The Cambria Green Tasmanian Planning Commission (TPC) hearings are scheduled to commence this Thursday 9 June 2022.

The hearings will focus on the planning merits of the Cambria Green rezoning and proposed development (Cambria Estate Draft Amendment AM 2018-03, Specific Area Plan and other amendments).

“The planning amendment was lodged by Cambria Green Agriculture and Tourism Management Pty Ltd with Glamorgan Spring Bay Council in April 2018, four long years ago,” said Anne Held, President of the East Coast Alliance. “The decision of the independent Tasmanian Planning Commission at these hearings will be critical to the outcome for Cambria Green.”

The East Coast Alliance (ECA) will be represented by ERA Planning and Environment and five experts selected to address some of the TPC’s key stated concerns about Cambria Green: agriculture, environment and natural values, hydrology, heritage and economic/tourism cost benefit analysis.

Statements of Evidence by ECA’s planners and experts, and informed submissions by community representatives, can be accessed on the TPC website here (scroll down to May 2022).

The TPC’s Cambria Green hearings will be held at the Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR), 181 Macquarie Street, Hobart commencing at 10am.

The TPC has listed the following dates for the hearings:

• Thursday 9 and Friday 10 June
• Wednesday 15 and Friday 17 June
• Tuesday 21, Wednesday 22, Thursday 23 and Friday 24 June
• Wednesday 29, Thursday 30 June and Friday 1 July
• Wednesday 6, Thursday 7 and Friday 8 July (reserve days if required)

The TPC hearing schedule as at 2 June can be found here.

The East Coast Alliance was formed in May 2018 in response to community concerns about the Cambria proposal and currently represents almost 700 individuals and organisations across Tasmania and interstate opposed to Cambria Green. The East Coast Alliance is not opposed to, and supports, appropriate, reasonable and sustainable development.