Planning controls for the land, to be known as the Wyalla Road Residential Release area, will be presented to Kiama councillors on Tuesday night as will three separate development applications for the area.

A 7.8-hectare Wyalla Road property near the Allowrie Street roundabout will be subdivided by Peter Taranto's Huntingdale Developments to include 30 Torrens title housing lots, restricted to those aged 55 and older, and 26 detached residential housing lots.

A neighbouring property belonging to businesswoman Colleen Camarda will supply another 11 lots.

Wyalla Road resident Reg Curnow expressed concern that the whole justification for the development of the area was the seniors component, yet 65 per cent of the area would be standard residential lots.

He questioned why the seniors component was listed for the third stage of the release area, with prime residential lots to be subdivided in the first two stages.

"They are granting the developer the cream of the development upfront," Mr Curnow said.

"Stage two is the jam, while the bread and butter gets left to last.

"The support this development had in Jamberoo was because of the seniors component so let's have that upfront."

The applications go before the council a week after 120 people attended a community meeting in Jamberoo where concerns were expressed about the Draft Illawarra Regional Growth and Infrastructure Plan and the classification of Jamberoo as a "town", not a "village".

Mr Curnow said that with infill development, the Chapel Hill subdivision and the Wyalla Road release, Jamberoo was looking at gaining an extra 110 lots on top of the 350 that already existed in the village.

"That is a 30 per cent increase in a year ... that makes Jamberoo the boom town of the Illawarra."