The NSW coastline faces a wave of urban developments in the next 20 years.
Councils predict up to a four-fold surge in their populations.
The State Government has asked local government officials to prepare settlement plans which detail where this massive influx of people will live. According to documents produced by local governments on the coast and population projections by the Department of Urban Affairs and Planning, the North Coast will experience unprecedented population growth in the next two decades. There are already more than 625,000 people living along the coast outside the area between Newcastle and Shoalhaven. By 2020, this will almost double to almost 1.1 million. The population of Tweed Shire is projected to rise from 46,200 to nearly 190,000.