The South Coast
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Latest from The South Coast
- Bega Valley council resolves that staff prioritise finalising a local approvals policy and LEP amendment to facilitate the use of tiny homes on wheels and caravans
- Shoalhaven is in the waste levy's Metropolitan Levy Area, $180.20 a tonne in 2026-27. A 2018 parliamentary committee could see no justification for it
- Bega Valley council voted 5 to 3 to prepare a planning proposal to permit forestry without consent in the RU2 zone, where it is currently prohibited
- A Eurobodalla council report says the Tomakin sewage plant repeatedly exceeded its EPA phosphorus limits in 2025-26. Councillors voted 8 to 0 to move its upgrade, estimated at $62 million, to the next phase
- Batemans Bay's revised masterplan will not include the 100m height limit. The survey on what comes instead closes Sunday 11 October.