The proposed development fails on Bushfire Evacuation Safety, Traffic Congestion, and Community Amenity and we need your help to stop it.

Developers Mirvac and Truslan want to rezone land between Powderworks Road and Wilga and Wilson Streets, Ingleside, for up to eight-storey residential towers.

This Planning Proposal (No. PEX2025/0001) would change zoning from RU2 Rural Landscape to R3 Medium Density, allowing 536 new dwellings — including four six-storey apartment blocks (plus two bonus storeys), townhouses, and small-lot housing.

We are calling on Northern Beaches Council to reject this unsafe and inappropriate rezoning.

Bushfire & Evacuation Risk
This is a known bushfire-prone area with a single escape route. It burned in 1994. Adding more than 1,800 residents and 1,000 vehicles would make safe evacuation impossible in an emergency. Experts have repeatedly warned that Powderworks Road cannot handle mass evacuation — yet nothing has changed since the Ingleside Place Strategy was rejected in 2022.

Traffic & Infrastructure Overload
This area lies 4 km from the nearest B-Line bus stop, far outside the 800 m mass-transit rule. No road or public-transport upgrades are planned. The result: daily gridlock, unsafe “rat runs” through Elanora Heights, and a neighbourhood never designed for high-density traffic.

Loss of Bushland & Visual Impact
Dense development would bulldoze remnant native bushland and destroy wildlife habitat. Towers up to eight storeys would permanently change Ingleside’s and Elanora Heights’ semi-rural character. And the so-called “affordable” dwellings would only be ~20% below 2018 market rates — hardly affordable today.

Not Anti-Housing — But Location Matters
We support more housing, but it must be safe, sustainable, and serviced by proper transport and infrastructure. Medium-density, six-to-eight-storey apartments are too remote and unsafe in this bushfire-exposed pocket. A lower-density R2 residential zoning with appropriate lot sizes would be far more suitable here.

What We Are Asking Council To Do:

1. Reject the Wilga–Wilson Street (PEX2025/0001) Medium-Density Rezoning
2. Support safer R2 residential zoning instead
3. Focus medium-density growth in safe, well-serviced urban areas near transport
4. Protect Ingleside’s bushland, wildlife, and semi-rural character
5. Listen to, and be more accountable to local communities through genuine, transparent consultation

Take Action Now

Please sign and share this petition to protect the safety, environment, and livability of Elanora Heights and Ingleside — before it’s too late. Every signature counts. 

PLUS, and this is super important, the timeframe for submissions to Council has been extended to 30 November. We are only half way to our goal of 1000+ submissions, so please, if you haven't made one yet, do so here: Make a submission. Thank you.