Exclusive: Dominic Perrottet visited construction zone after saying flood plain development ‘must stop’
Dominic Perrottet, who says development needs to stop in flood-prone areas, has visited an emergency housing site that only months ago lay under water.Dominic Perrottet, who says development needs to stop in flood-prone areas, has visited an emergency housing site that only months ago lay under water., the premier, Dominic Perrottet, was standing in a construction zone for emergency housing that, just months earlier, lay under water.
For Marlene Crompton, the February flood was the worst she had seen in her 80 years in Mullumbimby. She lives down the road from the site and fears the development would make the next flood worse.Crompton wants to see other flood victims rehoused but said: “It’s not much point putting 180 people in temporary homes, if you’re going to put 500 of us at risk for the next thing.“I’m hideously disappointed and shocked.
“Watching it go up and up and up every day has been really anxiety-producing when we’ve all still got effects from the February flood,” Bookallil said.
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