Power in numbers!... let’s not leave anyone behind on unfair zoning

Help us raise enough funds to do what Kingborough Council has failed to do - print, post and distribute flyers and consent forms to all remaining landowners impacted by the Landscape Conservation Zone (LCZ).

Let’s ensure all landowners are made aware of the rezoning proposal which can have serious implications for their futures and given the opportunity to attend future Tasmanian Planning Commission (TPC) hearings. For landowners just becoming aware of the rezoning issue, the opportunity to participate in future TPC hearings will be at the discretion of the TPC but is made available through Representation 430 submitted by Joshua Graeme-Evans on all LCZ targeted properties in Kingborough.

Every landowner brought into the TPC Hearings process will make a difference for all landowners targeted with the zoning.

Power in numbers is crucial!

We need to raise $5300

$2800 to distribute flyers to approximately 700 landowners.

$2500 to pay back the Elcock brothers for their direct mail out to 800 of the LCZ targeted property owners, already completed in September 2025.

Your donation will help us to send letters and/or to distribute flyers as widely as possible in the parts of Kingborough not already covered. The postage and material cost of each letter is approximately $3 each and fuel costs of volunteers will be reimbursed.

Any unutilised funds will be donated to the Kingston Sea Scouts.

Bringing others into this process helps:

History has shown that to be successful in rezoning whole “areas”, the TPC requires sufficient evidence and needs to gain consent from as many impacted parties as possible within a district, neighbourhood, or street/road etc.

Background: members of the public have raised serious concern about the Landscape Conservation Zoning with Council since 2022. These concerns include: future difficulties obtaining property finance and affordable insurance, property value implications, rebuilding after bushfires, decreased allowable uses for business, potential inability to build new homes or extend existing ones, increased cost and complexity of development applications, and bushfire risks.

Kingborough Council had other zoning options available to it under the Tasmanian Planning Scheme, but it did not use them. The Council has largely dismissed community concerns and continued to argue for the application of LCZ without clearly specifying what “landscape values” are in Kingborough, why they need protection, and why these values are more important than landowners’ concerns. The broad use of the zone to almost 1600 properties has been justified using a simplistic dictionary definition for the term “landscape”.

Members of the public repeatedly asked Kingborough Council to contact landowners directly to inform them of their intentions, but it resolved not to do so.

There is concern that a large cohort of Kingborough landowners:

The flyer intends to address these three issues.

The flyer will contain information on the zoning and a “consent form” so that property owners who were not aware of the rezoning proposal can become “witnesses” to Representation 430. Landowners completing the consent form are likely to be given due consideration by the TPC and have a greater chance of being successful in not having LCZ applied to their property, if that is their wishes.

This GoFundMe has been raised by a group of concerned residents.

For more information, please visit the No Compulsory Landscape Conservation Zoning in Kingborough Facebook Group