Residents vow to fight 'insensitive' northern suburbs housing estate

Kate McIlwain
Updated November 12 2019 - 1:09am, first published November 11 2019 - 4:30pm
'Overwhelming': A view of the proposed housing estate looking north from across the road. Picture: Artist's impression from Wombarra Vista/Wollongong City Council development application.
'Overwhelming': A view of the proposed housing estate looking north from across the road. Picture: Artist's impression from Wombarra Vista/Wollongong City Council development application.

A plan to build 16 new homes on "the last remaining large contiguous parcel of residential zoned land in Wollongong's northern suburbs," has angered residents, who say it "shows a startling insensitivity to the character" of Wombarra.

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Kate McIlwain

Kate McIlwain

Journalist

For more than a decade, I've helped the Illawarra Mercury set the news agenda across the region. Currently I'm the paper's health reporter - covering the stories of Illawarra workers and residents in the wake of a global pandemic and at a time where our health systems are stretched to the limit.

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