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City of Coffs Harbour is helping to promote the opportunity for the community to participate in the NSW Government’s consultation on the Planning Proposal for the Jetty Foreshore precinct, to help ensure engagement is meaningful and collaborative. 

The Coffs Harbour Jetty Foreshore Precinct revitalisation is a NSW Government project, led by Property and Development NSW (PDNSW). The Department of Planning, Housing and Infrastructure (DPHI) has received a planning proposal from PDNSW under the State Significant Rezoning Policy, and this is currently on public exhibition.

The City of Coffs Harbour is a key stakeholder for the precinct and will review the proposal and prepare a technical submission for consideration by Council, to be submitted during the exhibition period.

At the conclusion of public exhibition on Monday 30 June 2025, the assessment period begins, with timeframes generally ranging from 6 to 9 months. The Planning unit at DPHI will review all submissions and request PDNSW to prepare a Response to Submissions. The document will be available on NSW Planning Portal during the assessment period: https://www.planningportal.nsw.gov.au/ppr/coffs-harbour-jetty-foreshore

PDNSW has lodged a planning proposal with DPHI that seeks approval for:

• Changes to permissible land uses.
• Changes to permissible maximum building heights.
• Planning controls for future State Significant Development Applications including design guidelines and design excellence processes.

The proposal seeks to amend the Coffs Harbour Local Environmental Plan 2013 to facilitate:

• approximately 250 apartments and 200 tourist accommodation rooms
• enhanced public open space including parklands and potential facilities like recreational courts, a village green, a nature-based playground, gathering spaces and infrastructure to support events
• commercial spaces that could be used for family-friendly food and beverage outlets, marine-based businesses, shops, office spaces and publicly accessible cafes and restaurants as part of a new tourist destination at Corambirra Point
• improved connectivity through new and consolidated formal parking areas, safe pathways and additional opportunities for beachfront boardwalks.   

The planning proposal does not seek approval for specific buildings; is the start of the formal approvals for this Precinct with future stages to undergo subsequent development applications and approvals.

The development concept for the precinct aims to:

• Create a thriving and vibrant foreshore Precinct for Coffs Harbour 
• Activate public spaces for the benefit of the community, both night and day 
• Enhance cultural and existing qualities of the local area 
• Improve connectivity between the foreshore and the CBD 
• Facilitate additional housing opportunities 
• Improve the public domain 
• Enable job growth and economic activity 
• Celebrate Country and Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal history of the foreshore

The sub-precincts identified in the Planning Proposal are:

• The Marina
  • Revitalised commercial and dining hub
  • Upgraded Fish Co-op and new culinary options
• North Park
  • Expanded landscaped open space
  • Formalised parking replacing informal areas
• Jetty Hub
  • Mixed-use developments with ground-floor cafes/restaurants
  • New parking area to improve access to parklands
• Activity Hub & Village Green
  • New retail to support local businesses and tourism
  • Open green spaces with food pavilions and event facilities
• Corambirra Point
  • Tourist accommodation with cultural and historical experiences
  • Balanced focus on tourism and heritage preservation
• Foreshore Parklands
  • New boardwalk for beach access
  • Regional play spaces and landscaped amphitheatre
  • Additional parking

In total, the precinct will contain 47ha of recreational land, including 6ha of new and embellished parkland.

The revitalisation of the Jetty Foreshore precinct is led PDNSW, a state government agency. They have outlined that the revitalisation will be staged and funded, over time, to deliver the shared community vision, and that funds generated will be reinvested back into the Precinct, enabling the enhancement of open space, delivery of important civic infrastructure and preservation of the precinct’s Aboriginal and European history and natural environment.

The development of the Jetty Foreshore precinct is being led by PDNSW, an agency within the DPHI that reports to the NSW Minister for Lands and Property, the Hon Stephen Kamper MP.

PDNSW have lodged the planning proposal with a separate area DPHI that reports to the Minister for Planning and Public Spaces, the Hon Paul Scully MP.

Assessment timeframes generally range from 6 to 9 months. At the conclusion of public exhibition on Monday 30 June 2025, The planning unit at DPHI will review all submissions and request PDNSW to prepare a Response to Submissions. The document will be available on NSW Planning Portal during the assessment period: https://www.planningportal.nsw.gov.au/ppr/coffs-harbour-jetty-foreshore

At its meeting on 24 October 2024, Council resolved the following: 

1. Note the outcome of the Jetty Foreshores Poll held during the 14 September 2024 Local Government elections. 
2. Acknowledge that the poll did not reflect the placemaking and broader community engagement principles of Council's adopted Community Participation and Engagement Plan. 
3. Works with the NSW Government to ensure that the upcoming public consultation process on the refined master plan/planning proposal for the CoƯs Harbour Jetty Foreshore Precinct Revitalisation is consistent with the Community Participation and Engagement Plan and thereby has meaningful and collaborative community engagement. 
4. Write to the Minister for Lands and Property to re- engage Council in the CoƯs Harbour Jetty Foreshore Precinct Revitalisation process and to request prioritisation of tourism accommodation over private residential in the Jetty Foreshores Precinct and to prioritise infrastructure upgrades and public realm improvements as the first priority. 
5. Instruct the General Manager to cease any further action in regard to the process of compulsory acquisition to acquire the land Lot 11 DP 843870 and Lot 10 DP 1284099 at the Jetty Foreshores, and to advise the responsible Minister of the decision. 
6. Revoke the Draft Jetty Foreshores Concept Plan endorsed on 22 February 2024, noting that it has not been subject to any community consultation and review.

The NSW Government is not developing land for profit and all funds generated will be reinvested back into the Precinct to enable the enhancement of open space, delivery of important civic infrastructure and preservation of the Precinct’s Indigenous and European history and natural environment.