Northern Beaches Greens are calling on the NSW government to put a stop to the development of housing on the bushland at Lizard Rock.
After NSW government submitted a planning proposal to rezone the land for residential and conservation purposes, Greens Candidate for Wakehurst, Ethan Hrnjak, condemned the proposal and claimed the community have also expressed their extensive opposition in the state government’s role in it.
“As a long-time resident of Frenchs Forest, the news that this planned proposal is moving to rezone any of this land for housing, to chop the pristine bushland into suburban blocks, is tragic,” Mr Hrnjak said.
According to NSW government, under the Aboriginal Land Rights Act 1983, Aboriginal land councils have been set up “to manage land, providing an economic base for Aboriginal communities as compensation for historic dispossession and ongoing disadvantage.”
“The government has a responsibility to compensate First Nations people for their enormous losses inflicted by invasion, but it must also protect local Aboriginal cultural sites, threatened species and the unique natural landscape of the area,” Mr Hrnjak said.