Help Save Mountain View Nursery


Standing Up for Small Business, Sustainability, and Common Sense

 

Mountain View Nursery is a small, family-run plant nursery on the South Coast of New South Wales, dedicated to growing healthy, locally adapted plants that support our region’s people, landscapes, and environment.

For nearly six years, we’ve provided thousands of native, ornamental, and exotic plants to homes, schools, landscapers, and community organizations, across NSW and the ACT — helping green our region, create jobs, and restore ecosystems.

But now, due to years of bureaucratic red tape, bias, and environmental hypocrisy, our nursery faces an impossible battle to reopen our gates to the public.

We’re asking for your help — to stand with us for fairness, support small business, and protect the environment from needless harm.

💔 Our Story — A Six-Year Struggle for Fairness

When our small nursery began attracting visitors, we did everything by the book. We lodged a Development Application (DA) for a change of use to a Plant Nursery — a land use clearly permitted under our zoning.

That should have been the end of it.
Instead, it marked the start of a six-year ordeal defined by delay, inconsistency, and discrimination.

Our initial DA was rejected over a minor technicality — the use of an aerial map — something accepted in other approvals.
We resubmitted, hired experts, followed every request, and met every new demand. But each time we complied, the goalposts moved again.

Thousands of dollars later, we’re still waiting for fair treatment.

⚠️ Council Red Tape and Bias

Despite operating as a genuine plant nursery — growing and propagating thousands of plants annually — council incorrectly determined we were not a nursery.
This error triggered a Development Control Order (DCO) and years of financial and emotional hardship.

Even when an independent former town planner and engineering experts confirmed that our operations met all requirements, council ignored the evidence and continued to escalate conditions.

They now demand we bitumen-seal our shared rural Right of Way, a quiet gravel lane with fewer than two vehicle movements per hour, far below the standard requiring sealing.

This unnecessary work would cost hundreds of thousands of dollars — money no small family business could bear — and it would destroy local habitat while increasing carbon emissions.

Meanwhile, other local businesses operate freely without such restrictions.
We’ve met every standard asked of us, while council continues to move the goalposts.

🌏 Why This Matters

Mountain View Nursery is part of the South Coast’s green lungs. Every plant we grow helps:

  • Reduce carbon and cool local temperatures

  • Stabilise soils and support biodiversity

  • Provide habitat for native wildlife

  • Beautify homes, parks, and community spaces

Replacing our natural gravel road with asphalt would increase heat, runoff, and toxins — harming local wildlife, including ringtail possums, blue-tongue lizards, arthropods, and protected bird species.

This fight is about more than one nursery — it’s about fairness, sustainability, and the future of small business.

🧭 What We’re Asking For

We’re calling for fairness, transparency, and common sense from Eurobodalla Shire Council.

We’re asking that:

  • Council recognise the professional evidence already provided

  • Small, family-run businesses like ours be treated equally under local law

  • Environmental sustainability be prioritised over unnecessary asphalt and profit-driven fees

💚 How You Can Help

1. Sign the Petition

Join thousands calling on Eurobodalla Shire Council to act fairly and restore transparency.
👉 Sign the Petition Here

2. Donate to Our GoFundMe

Your contribution helps us fund compliance if required — or fight this injustice in court.
👉 Support the GoFundMe Campaign

3. Share Our Story

Spread awareness on social media, with local groups, and in sustainability networks. Every share helps.

4. Speak Up or Collaborate

If you’ve experienced similar council overreach or can offer professional expertise — in civil engineering, environmental science, or advocacy — please reach out.

🌱 Together, We Can Keep Growing

Mountain View Nursery represents more than one small business — it represents every hardworking family fighting to do the right thing in a system that too often rewards power over fairness.

We’ve always stood for integrity, sustainability, and community spirit.
Now we’re asking for your help to make sure that continues.

Please donate, share, and stand with us in this fight for fairness —
for small business, for truth, and for the future of our environment.


📞 Contact

Mountain View Nursery
South Coast, NSW
📍 Visit our online store
📞 Call Robyn: 0478 225 757