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Wellington Park Management Plan Review

The most pressing issue for all of us now is the review of the Wellington Park Management Plan.  This could of course be an opportunity to strengthen the protections for the mountain against inappropriate developments but equally it could be used to water down those provisions of the previous plan which successfully saw the cable car DA rejected by both the council and the TASCAT.

We note that the last time the Wellington Park Trust altered the Plan was to approve a change to the Pinnacle Specific Area to accommodate the cable car proposal. This was done despite overwhelming opposition from the public. Indeed, at the end of the consultation process the Trust were heavily criticised by TASCAT but still approved the change to the plan. As you can no doubt tell I am sceptical of the process and its outcomes. Having said that we must participate and be diligent.

MWCC have publicly called for the Management Plan to be changed to suit the company’s purposes and the MWCC are actively encouraging people to use the Management Plan Review comment boxes to ask for the Plan to be changed to align with the cable car proposal.

We  urge you to have a look at the Wellington Park Trust website https://wellingtonpark.org.au/step-1-park-values to understand the process and to take part. The process has started with a review of the values within the park which takes the form of a survey.

In the survey’s comments section you might add your own comments like – “the Management Plan should be changed to explicitly prohibit a cable car across the Organ Pipes and prohibit construction of any large structures on the Pinnacle.”
If you feel the values that have been set out are wrong or not complete, then have your say. You can also make a more detailed submission adding values that you might feel are important. The review of values survey closes on 15th Sept 2023.
This process will take time and a draft management plan is not expected until early 2025.  ROCC will be putting in submissions at the various stages of this review.

Please get involved and thank you for being part of the continuing fight to protect the mountain.

 

CONTACT YOUR LOCAL MEMBERS:

We suggest you start with emailing your thoughts on the proposed cable car development to Clark Liberal Members & cc the Premier Jeremy Rockliff & Labour leader Rebecca White.

elise.archer@parliament.tas.gov.au
madeleine.ogilvie@parliament.tas.gov.au
jeremy.rockliff@parliament.tas.gov.au
rebecca.white@parliament.tas.gov.au

If you don’t live in the Clark electorate consider also contacting your local members.  Key points you might like to include are that:

– the development has been through the proper, statutory process, including the developer exercising its right to appeal and the cable car was comprehensively rejected on many diverse ground;
· the cable car proposal assessed in the appeal before the independent planning tribunal was described by the proponent as its ‘best effort’ and all alternative routes and options had been thoroughly investigated and dismissed;
· prolonging the cable car saga with special approval for the Premier’s mates will not succeed and simply further delay progress on genuine solutions to the tourist and visitor pressure facing the mountain;
· the cable car proposal is not a green “ecotourism” venture.  It involves clearing of large areas of native reserve & habitat at both the base & pinnacle stations, it is not a traffic solution and may in fact increased traffic due to visitations to the summit in private vehicles to visit pinnacle facilities

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR:

GET OUR GEAR OUT:     

  • get your No Cable Car signs back out ! Continue to make a noise about kunanyi, show what she means to you and what you think of special political deals for a flawed, toxic proposal put forward by people who consistently show incompetence and a complete contempt for the interests of others. Haven’t got a sign? Go to the ROCC Shop & choose between No Cable Car & Save the Organ Pipes signs.
  • Wear your no cable car Tshirts & bags –  available from the ROCC website see here

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