Why this petition matters:
We want to be 100% clear: our community is not against a seniors housing development at Mingara. We welcome appropriate, low-rise housing for our local retirees. What we vehemently oppose is a massive, high-density concrete compound crammed onto a tight 3-hectare parcel of land that destroys our neighborhood character.
During public consultations, joint venture partners Mingara Leisure Group and Pariter stood by signs promising their project would "ensure the design fits in seamlessly with the character of the surrounding area."
They broke that promise. The approved plans reveal five massive 5-to-6-story high-density blocks towering over low-rise Tumbi Umbi. They even included 13 two-story townhouses on the exact same site, proving they know what the actual neighborhood character is—before choosing to dwarf them with concrete towers.
The data used to push this State Significant Development (SSD-63475709) through is a total fiction:
Lazy Pandemic Surveys: The developer's critical parking capacity survey lasted for exactly one hour in 2022 during a period heavily distorted by pandemic disruptions, active work-from-home mandates, and venue density restrictions.
7-Day-a-Week Gridlock: It completely ignored the severe daily bottleneck turning from Wyong Road onto Mingara Drive, which daily fights traffic from a primary school, two pre-schools, fast-food outlets, a service station, a massive medical precinct, and the Glengara Retirement Village (which alone generates an average of 842 cars a day).
The Oversupply Reality: State planners claimed a "critical shortage," but right now there are 180 seniors vacancies across the Central Coast—including 17 empty units in the Glengara village directly next door to this site.
Wiping Out Community Sporting Parking: The footprint completely eliminates the vital overflow grass parking used by local schools and families at the adjacent Mingara Regional Athletics Centre, forcing dangerous traffic onto our quiet residential streets.

Pariter and Mingara keep hiding behind the legal argument that the site's "private recreation" zoning allows for the height. But they are completely ignoring their moral and ethical responsibility to the local community—the very people who built Mingara into the club it is today.
We have officially lodged a formal Breach of Stated Intent complaint with the NSW Department of Planning Compliance Team. Now, we need our local council to step up.
What we are demanding:
We call on Central Coast Council CEO Lucinda Craig, the newly elected Council leadership, and NSW Planning Minister Paul Scully to intervene immediately. They must aggressively audit these traffic and parking realities and compel the developer to submit a Section 4.55 Design Modification to scale the buildings down to a maximum of 3 stories—honoring their original promise to the community.
Sign this petition to demand transparency, traffic safety, and corporate accountability for Tumbi Umbi!