The South Coast has a huge housing problem, but if locals are reluctant to have new houses built on much-loved bushland, where are the new houses going to go?
In order to build more homes, the local council needs to make more land available, or increase density and height limits in already developed areas.
"We have to come together on this and realise that we can't have people living in cars because we're not willing to budge on other issues," Cr Hatcher says.Sally Christiansen lives with her husband and two small children about 60 kilometres south of Batemans Bay in the village of Dalmeny, which is home to about 2,500 people."It's not so much about choosing; it's about taking one of the very few options that might exist.
"We're picturing the noise of construction over years and years in people's backyards, and we're also just picturing the change to the character of not just Dalmeny, but to all of the different towns up and down the coast," Ms Christiansen said.They say it will destroy one of the only areas of forest untouched by the Black Summer bushfires,Keith Joliffe volunteers for local environmental group CoastWatchers and has spent the last decade trying to save koala populations.
Mr Joliffe says the community must accept that saving natural environments may require giving up the dream of a detached family home.Up to 100 hectares of bush in Dalmeny could be bulldozed for urban development.
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