Coal Loader Wharf

Consultation has now closed for the Review of Environmental Factors (REF) and Vision Survey for the Coal Loader Wharf. The consultation period was open from Friday 2 December to Sunday 15 January 2023. 

Thank you to everyone who provided a REF submission and/or completed the Vision Survey during the public display period. 

We will carefully consider all feedback received from the Review of Environmental Factors (REF) and publish a submissions report in the coming months. Feedback received will form part of the application to Heritage NSW, outlining our plan for the retrieval of heritage material and address any safety concerns.  

Subject to planning and heritage approvals, our proposed work will take place in 2023. The work is expected to take around six months to complete, pending suitable weather and maritime conditions.  

Feedback received via the Vision Survey will help us develop long-term plans for the site and we’ll be inviting you to have your say on concepts for any future plans later this year.  

If you have any questions or comments, or would like to be added to our email distribution list to receive project updates, please email northplace@transport.nsw.gov.au

The heritage-listed Coal Loader Wharf is located on the Waverton Peninsula. Transport acknowledges the lands of the Cammeraygal people and that modern New South Wales is an overlay on Aboriginal land and that many of the routes we use today follow songlines Aboriginal people have followed for tens of thousands of years.  

There’s a culturally important spring and wallabies and penguins lived on the peninsula within living history. Whales would give birth in the deep waters off the headland.  

We understand the natural rock setting provided shelter and was a place to carry out cultural practices.    

Discover more about the rich cultural history of the Coal Loader Wharf by visiting North Sydney Council’s website.

We will carefully consider all the feedback received from the REF and will publish the submissions in the coming months.

This feedback will form part of the application to Heritage NSW, outlining the plan for the retrieval of heritage material and address any safety concerns.

Subject to planning and heritage approvals, the proposed work will take place in 2023. The work is expected to take around six months to complete, pending suitable weather and maritime conditions.

The feedback you provide through the Vision Survey will help us develop long-term plans for the site and we’ll be inviting you to have your say on these future plans in 2023.

November 2022 community update

The Coal Loader Wharf.

November 2022 Frequently Asked Questions

Coal Loader Wharf make safe and retrieval work and Vision Survey.

• February 2022 project notification

  Investigation Work from Monday 14 February.

• November 2021 project notification

  Critical safety work at the Balls Head Coal Loader wharf, Waverton.

• December 2022 Review of Environmental Factors (REF)

  Coal Loader Wharf make safe and retrieval work.

• Appendix A

  GHD Condition Assessment 2019.

• Appendix A

  TLB Condition Report 2018.

• Appendix A

  TLB Pump house and steel frames 2014.

• Appendix A

  TLB Condition report 2014.

• Appendix B

  Consideration of Section 171 factors.

• Appendix C

  Statutory consultation checklists.

• Appendix D

  Statement of Heritage Impact.

• Appendix E

  Contaminated sites list August 2021.

• Appendix E

  EPBC Act Protected Matters Report.

• Appendix E

  Fisheries NSW.

• Appendix E

  Heritage Items Search.

• Appendix E

  NSW WeedWise.

• Appendix F

  Habitat assessment and biodiversity background searches.

• Appendix G

  Assessment of significance.

• Appendix H

  PACHCI Assessment Result - Balls Head Coal Loader Wharf Make Safe and Retrieval.