Southern Highlands senior housing application numbers a 'concern': council
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Wingecarribee Council is concerned by the number of seniors living development applications in the Southern Highlands.
The council says it has developments with around 700 residential units before the council at the moment, with many more in the pipeline.
The council's general manager, Mike Hyde, says it has sought an urgent meeting with the director general of planning, seeking a moratorium on further seniors living developments until its environment plan is finalised.
"I don't want to see the population age demographic unduly distorted by a very large sudden influx of people of any age group, and it has enormous potential to disturb the provision of capital assets to our facilities because you get a sudden rush of any single age group that can cause problems."
