Worth more than 100,000 million dollars, Singleton’s proposed miner’s accommodation service has hit a hurdle. 16 September Singleton’s council voted to not support the project (the Mac Village) when it goes to the approval stage in just three weeks. The council support a staff report that gives 11 reasons why it should not be approved. Some of these reasons include: • The development hasn’t shown that it will protect and conserve agricultural land and encourage continual viable and sustainable agricultural land use. • Does not have a suitable evacuation route in case of flooding. Locals have been trying to stop the 1500 bed proposed miners specific accommodation service. Concerned residents say it is not so much about what is going to happen should the proposal go ahead but more about the ongoing effects for town – less community involvement, more transient population, less money floating around our local economy and more of it floating around the development itself. Locals believe they really don’t need it. In remote localities it has its place but in regional NSW no. The Joint Regional Planning Panel will decide their fate next month. The hearing will be held on the 10 October 2013 at 5pm at the Civic Centre Singleton. They would really like as much public support as they can. The BFFSSA have been great supporters of our fight in Gulgong and came along to our court hearing at the RSL in July to offer their support. The BFFSSA (Better Future for Singleton Shire Association) is a diverse group of businesses, residents, miners, landlords and community members who have pledged not to allow big corporations to destroy the core of the Singleton Community by setting up camp outside town and threatening our way of life. The campaign is not an anti-mining campaign, nor an anti-miner campaign. In fact, it is quite the contrary. They have the support of the CFMEU on this, to the extent that a CFMEU representative is the secretary of their association. This is about our rights to be informed properly about what is happening in our town. It is about big business excluding small business from trade and it is about the risk to hundreds (one might even guess 1500) of our local jobs should mining companies prefer to fill a mining camp with FIFO workers instead of using local employees.
Posted on: Wed, 18 Sep 2013 22:50:07 +0000
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