North Coast KI proposal poses risks to habitat for multiple threatened species
What has been proposed?
Melbourne-based firm Junctions 90 Pty Ltd has applied for approval to build:
‘Tourist accommodation and wellness complex comprising 60 accommodation modules, a restaurant, day spa and reception building, services outbuildings, ancillary tourism experience structures, footpaths and decking, 33 geothermal bathing pools, 26 staff accommodation units, landscaping, carpark, new internal roads and access, and on-site infrastructure including solar PV, water storage dams and waste treatment facilities’.
(Application ID 25024492 on the Plan SA Development Register - 15/10/25)
Neighbouring farmers, landholders and environmentalists are united in concerns regarding potential impacts on:
agricultural land use
natural water supplies, flows and hydrology
the natural and rural character of the land, and
state-significant native vegetation that provides habitat for nationally listed threatened species - Kangaroo Island Glossy-Black Cockatoos and Kangaroo Island Echidnas. Adjacent areas house White-Bellied Sea Eagles, Peregrine Falcons and Heath Goannas and provide ‘known or likely’ habitat for other threatened or endangered species.
There has been limited consultation with the KI community by the would-be interstate developer so KI residents and lovers of the KI environment need to make their views known!
What can you do?
Get informed, get involved!
If we don’t raise our concerns, silence may be regarded as consent. The proposal has been referred to KI Council (see Council’s comments here) and SA agencies including the Coast Protection Board, SA Country Fire Service, and Native Vegetation Council. The State Commission Assessment Panel is due to commence public notification soon on Plan SA - more info to come.
Please visit our Resources page for templates to email/write to your State MP, relevant Ministers and Shadow Ministers and (once public notification commences) the State Commission Assessment Panel.
Anyone concerned that any breach of the EPBC Act may occur through damage to habitat for nationally listed threatened species can also report their concerns to the Commonwealth Referral Team for the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (EPBC Act).
As permissions will primarily be a decision for the above State government agencies, you can ask your state representatives to stand up for island residents, farmers, visitors, habitat and threatened species like our endangered Glossy-Black Cockatoos, and save KI for sustainable development by emailing the template letter provided to:
Leon Bignell MP, Member for Mawson, at mawson@parliament.sa.gov.au
Minister for Planning Nick Champion MP at MinisterChampion@sa.gov.au
Minister for Climate Environment and Water Lucy Hood MP at Minister.Hood@sa.gov.au
Shadow Minister for Planning Michelle Lensink MLC at Lensink.Office@parliament.sa.gov.au, or
Shadow Minister for Environment David Basham MP at finniss@parliament.sa.gov.au.
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