December 2022
NSW Government releases its Coffs Jetty Revitalisation Refined Masterplan, outlining its proposal to sell land along the Jetty Foreshore strip to developers for the construction of buildings up to 6 storeys.
18 March 2024
NSW Government confirmed that it is planning for the development of up to 450 apartments along the foreshores. By comparison, the Shoreline retirement living development has 185 apartments and townhouses. This raised important questions about the validity of the Masterplan, which didn’t include capacity for this much development.
14 September 2024
In a poll held as part of the Local Government Elections, 69% of Coffs Harbour residents (33,161 people) voted ‘No’ to any multistorey residential development along the foreshores .
9 October 2024
NSW Government officially seized control of planning for the Jetty Foreshore Precinct, removing any formal council or community input into the future use of land along the foreshores until the completed rezoning proposal goes on exhibition.
24 October 2024
The newly elected Coffs Harbour City Council ‘noted’ the results of the poll but reversed the previous council’s position and said they would not oppose the NSW Government’s plan for multistorey development on the foreshores.
October 2024
Information obtained by Foreshore for All under a Freedom of Information request raised fundamental questions about funding for the community benefits promoted as part of the Foreshores Masterplan.
It showed that the Government wants the development to pay for itself and hasn’t provided any additional funding to deliver the promised public open space, civil infrastructure, community spaces and parking.
Despite repeatedly claiming that all funds generated by the proposed residential and tourism development will be returned to the precinct for the community’s benefit, the Government’s own assessment is that the proceeds won’t cover the parklands, infrastructure and community open space depicted in the Masterplan.
May/June 2025
The NSW Government put the ‘PDNSW Rezoning Proposal’ for the Jetty Foreshore Precinct on exhibition between 16 May and 30 June 2025. Unexpectedly, the proposal included rezoning for buildings up to 25m or 8-storeys high.
Despite ongoing community opposition, zoning for private multistorey residential development represented the bulk of the proposed rezoning.
June 2025
A further freedom of information request by Foreshore for All found that an incredible $17.4 million had been spent by PDNSW on the Jetty Foreshore Revitalisation project up until May 2025.
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