Yamba CAN announces NSW Upper House Portfolio Committee No.7 visiting West Yamba floodplain urban development site 8:30am Friday 31 May 2024

 

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Portfolio Committee 7 are coming to Yamba

24 May 2024

Members of NSW Parliament’s Portfolio Committee 7 (Planning and Environment) are visiting Yamba to undertake site visits in relation to the Parliamentary Inquiry into the “Planning system and the impacts of climate change on the environment and communities.”

When is the Committee coming to Yamba: Friday 31 May 2024

Time: 8.30am

The Committee will be travelling down Carrs Drive. There are strict protocols in relation to observers remaining at a distance from the Committee visiting sites.

Yamba CAN Inc would like as many people as possible to stand on either side of Carrs Drive, near the access to Harold Tory Drive and O’Grady’s Lane.

We will have our banners and signs that observers can hold up when the Committee will be driving past in a bus.

Please ensure personal safety in relation to traffic movement.

Please be on site at about 8.20am ready to hold a sign.

The Portfolio Committee 7 Inquiry details and submissions can be seen at:

https://www.parliament.nsw.gov.au/committees/inquiries/Pages/inquiry-details.aspx?pk=2987

Please see attached the NR Times and CV Independent articles this week.

Please spread the word to others to attend and please outline that there are strict protocols.

Secretary

Yamba Community Action Network Inc (Yamba CAN Inc)

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Note:

Portfolio Committee No. 7 – Planning and Environment was established on 10 May 2023 in the 58th Parliament to inquire into and report on any matters relevant to the public administration of:

Climate Change, Energy, the Environment, Heritage, Planning and Public Spaces 

[https://www.parliament.nsw.gov.au/committees/listofcommittees/Pages/committees.aspx]

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Clarence Valley Independent 22 May 2024
 

Northern Rivers Times 23 May 2024

YambaCAN is hosting a meeting for all members and Yamba residents at Wooli Street Hall, 6:30pm Tuesday, 21 February 2023 - updates on community action

 

YambaCAN is hosting a meeting for all members and Yamba residents to attend.

When: Tuesday, 21 February 2023

Time: 6.30pm

Where: Wooli Street Hall, Yamba

Yamba CAN will be providing an outline of achievements since its inception on 28 September 2022.

Those attending will be able to voice their suggestions about what they would like Yamba CAN to focus on.

A short video will also be provided with updates on a number of matters.

Yamba CAN elected it's board and gained new members

 

Clarence Valley Independent, 5 October 2022:

The Yamba Community Action Network continues to gain momentum…..

A fresh injection of ideas and opinions greeted the stalwarts of Yamba CAN when they met at Wooli Street Hall on Wednesday, September 28.

“We had about 50 people there which was fantastic and the majority of them were new people,” Mr Lamerton said.

“Twenty-two people joined Yamba CAN on the night.

“We had a really good mix of people there, a lot of new people and young people.

“Ten of the regular people who turn up to meetings were there so there were about 40 people who were new, which was great.

“We got the constitution ratified and we had a board elected all within about 30 minutes…...

“All in all, it a was a great productive meeting, people were energised and everyone saw the humour in the double-booking.”

The Yamba Community Action Network CAN committee (l to r) Lynne Cairns – Secretary; Patricia Cancannon – Minutes Secretary; Ian Warlters – Committee Member; James Lamerton – Chair; Lynnie Deacon – Committee Member; Alex Devantier – Deputy-Chair; Col Shepard – Treasurer. Image: contributed.

Mr Lamerton said he and the elected Yamba CAN board of Lynnie Deacon, Lynne Cairns, Col Shephard, Alex Devantier, Ian Warlters, Patricia Concannon met on Saturday, October 2, to elect the committee.

The committee of Lynne Cairns – Secretary; Patricia Cancannon – Minutes Secretary; James Lamerton – Chair; Alex Devantier – Deputy-Chair; Col Shepard – Treasurer; Ian Warlters – Committee Member; Lynnie Deacon – Committee Member, was elected.

With the state election looming in March 2023, the Yamba CAN board has identified several issues and actions they will pursue.

“Once all candidates are preselected Yamba CAN will be holding a candidates forum for Yamba specifically,” Mr Lamerton said.

“We don’t want to hear about national and state politics, we just want to hear about issues around Yamba, so we’ll be inviting all endorsed candidates to that.

“Another focus is an absolute campaign that there will be no sale of the library and the Wooli Street Hall site, plus all of development in West Yamba.

“We will be telling the council in no uncertain terms that we are absolutely opposed to any potential sale of the Wooli Street Hall area, and that we have serious concerns about the Park Avenue development, and we strongly suggest council review that.

“We want Yamba to be a better place for our grandchildren than what it is for us now, and we can’t see that happening at the moment.”