36 Rose Hill Lane Yarramalong NSW 2259

Change of use to Community Facility

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We found this application for you on the planning authority's website ago. It was received by them earlier.

(Source: Central Coast Council, reference DA - 781 / 2013)

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  1. L. Court commented

    Dear Sir/Madam,

    Re: We urge Council to reject the Development Application 781/ 2013 to develop a "Community facility" at 36 Rose Hill Lane, Yarramalong:

    Just over a year ago, my partner and I spent a year living on Rose Hill Lane, Yarramalong. We felt extremely blessed to have spent this time in a part of Australia so close to Sydney, yet still so untouched by the corporate world.

    Towards the end of last year we were looking at buying a property in Yarramalong where we wanted to make a home and spend many years there. Throughout the process of going for a loan we learned of the application for a drug and alcohol centre for 36 Rose Hill Lane, Yarramalong. We were absolutely devastated and withdrew our application for purchase of the property in the valley immediately!

    When living in Yarramalong, we always felt safe. The valley is like no other place we have lived as far as a beautiful community feel, loving caring people and a comforting peace and quiet throughout the area. A real treasure of tranquil countryside beauty!

    My partner and I are writing today to air our grievances about the potential drug and alcohol centre and to let you know how much this would completely destroy the valley area. We are not against drug and alcohol centres, but feel that areas that are more built up with better public transport facilities and where more people can keep watch of what's going on where they live, would suit these centres better.

    The valley has no public transport, if attendees to the centre wanted to leave how would they get to Wyong or Tuggerah to the nearest train stations? Also, the amount of traffic in such a quiet area would be increased with the coming and going of employees, attendees and their visitors to the centre. If any of the attendees felt like leaving the premises at any time, on foot, what kind of things would be put in place to stop people from breaking and entering into nearby homes? I do not mean to imply at all, that people that attend these centres are criminals. However, there is substantiated evidence to say that some of these people may be inclined to steal if their addiction got the better of them. Most homes in the vicinity are on large blocks of land with no nearby neighbours to see what was going on.

    We also oppose the drug and alcohol centre because some of the buildings on the property have no council building permission and therefore shouldn't be permitted legally to be sold in the first place. On reading the application for the drug and alcohol centre I see that the centre wants to house 60 people at a time plus the extra people that are running the place (I note that the amount of employees needed to run the place are not in the application!) Again I do not see how this could be legal with clearly not enough space to house this many people with what is currently there, and again some of these buildings being illegal builds.

    We would like to mention the flooding in the area. While living in Yarramalong, on Rose Hill Lane in 2012, the area flooded heavily twice. Nobody could get in or out of the place for a few days during each flood with the vast amounts of water covering all of the lower field up to 36 Rose Hill Lane, also some of Rose Hill Lane itself, as well as Bunning Creek Road, (the road to exit the place) and its bridge. The water completely covered the bridge and rose up to the top of the bridge railings. I have photos should you wish to see them.

    On a final note I would be remiss if I did not mention the reputation of the Narconon centres across the world. There are many independent reviews to be read on the web. The centres lie about their success rates, have no certified help onsite and NO onsite doctors as they have been led to believe, and some of the centres' employees have been accused of taking drugs themselves while onsite.

    Here is an independent review of some of the centres throughout the world, filled out by people or their families that have attended Narconon centres world wide:

    http://narcononreviews.net/management/mgmt-narconon-southern-california-fresh-start/
    and
    http://narcononreviews.net/location/canada/
    (there are reviews from other countries at this link as well, including Australia)

    Here is an excerpt of just one of many devastating results from attending a Canadian Narconon centre:

    Narconon Survey Response #265
    This mother of a former client filled out the survey posthumously for her son because he committed suicide not long after leaving Narconon. She says that he lost all his self confidence when he was in the Narconon program, and never regained it after leaving. About housing, she says, "He said he had a room which was very sparse but since he was a bad person he didn't deserve anything better." She explains, "He started drinking after he left. He never drank before. He hated drink. He was also going to emergency rooms to get pills. He was not anything like the person that went there. He was so ashamed of what he had become after we had spent so much of our life savings on the program."

    This is a review from someone who attended the Melbourne, Australia Narconon centre:

    Did any of your experiences at Narconon bother you while you were in the program?
    "Yes"
    Please elaborate.
    "There were many times I really needed to express my confusion about the program or my frustration and I was always Acknowledged with. "I understand" or "OK"! Or "The way out is the way through". Or "You need to push through this" Or "Harden up" Or "Its just stuck attention". Or "You're dramatising" It sometimes felt like I was talking to a wall. In the end I gave up trying to talk with these people, And it was at those moments when I needed some intelligent and reassuring conversation with the staff and all I was getting was getting nothingness. Thats when I knew there is something very odd with Narconon. Those experiences did bother me. In fact the whole program bothered me because I couldn't see how this had anything to do with kicking drugs and staying clean. All I got was 10 months of craziness and mumbo jumbo Hubbard Tech. And they were bad mouthing about the psychs whenever they get a chance to do so, They are obsessed about how bad the psychs are."

    Before considering the application for such a group to take up business in the Yarramalong valley, I implore you to read through the site links above and do your own research. There are VERY real concerns and some law suits in progress from attendees, their loved ones and ex employees from various Narconon centres all across the world including Melbourne, Australia!

    In accordance with Section 147 of the Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979, I declare that neither I, nor anybody associated with me, has made any political donation or gift to a councillor or council employee within the Wyong Shire Council or surrounding councils.

    Thank you for reading this letter to strongly request that the Narconon application be rejected!

    Kind regards,

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