Hawkesbury-Nepean flood plain modelling critic, Dave Owens, lashed for connections to property developers

userNovember 3, 2023

A senior bureaucrat has rubbished the claims made by a former police deputy commissioner around modelling which led to the government blocking housing development on high-risk flood plains in Western Sydney.

Last Sunday, the NSW government announced areas of the North West Growth Corridor would be rezoned, preventing the construction of about 12,700 homes in Marsden Park North, areas of West Schofields and the Riverstone Town Centre.

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