It may also have something to do with the Heritage listing of both the stand, and the reserve itself. Funny thing is, council planning departments so often use heritage overlays to give them even more control over an area.
Mrs D & I own a property not far from Tarnagulla that has a heritage overlay, that the council has erroneously, and tenuously justified by associating it with a rush that ended there almost 25 years before it was built.
A property that we still own in Eden Park came close to getting a Heritage overlay placed on it, based on a shonky heritage study submitted by an architectural firm whose main business is preparing heritage reports for councils, so they can then add it to their planning scheme and stick a heritage overlay on a property.
They said someone by the name of Annie Jane King lived there at some time, and based on that a big old diseased gumtree over what was the original milking shed, would have been there as a young tree when she was living there. That meant the whole property needed tree controls and the house itself needed further consideration.......
At my own expense, in my spare time, using Ancestry.com, Electoral roll records, and newspaper clippings of the time sourced from Trove, I proved beyond doubt that she had never lived there, and most likely lived in a house that one local old timer told me used to be in the middle of a paddock further down the street, as that and one other road a few kilometers away were the only houses that ever had a family with the name King living in them. Further to that, I found that the exact time they said she was living there, she actually lived in Northcote...... This was later verified by the old bloke who delivered our tankwater, who was born and grew up in an historic house nearby, and his family had lived there since the late 1800's. (remember, councils, and therefore ratepayers, pay for supposedly professional people to come up with this crap).
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