The public meeting, organised by Planning Matters Alliance Tasmania (PMAT), will take place from 1.10pm – 2pm at Hobart Town Hall on Tuesday, August 21.

Notable Tasmanian writer Martin Flanagan, the older brother of Man Booker Prize-winning author Richard Flanagan, will MC the event.

The elder Flanagan has recently written about his concerns regarding the Cambria Green project in an opinion piece in The Examiner, The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald.

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“As a ratepayer of the Glamorgan Spring Bay council on Tasmania's East Coast, I went from knowing absolutely nothing of the Chinese-funded Cambria mega-development proposed for Swansea to learning that the council was voting on the first stage of the process the following evening through a news story,” Mr Flanagan wrote.

The council approved a plan to rezone a 3185-hectare property at Dolphin Sands in April, which would allow for a multi-million dollar development. 

The development would include 139 villas and units at a Cambria Homestead Precinct, 161 units and villas along the river, an 80-unit health retreat, golf course, 20 accommodation units at the golf range, and a 150-room resort.

Glamorgan Spring Bay mayor Michael Kent is a strong supporter of the proposal, saying any development that could potentially bring more than $100 million in investment to the area was positive on the face of it.

“It’s unbelievable for that amount to be spent on the East Coast,” he has previously said.

Among the groups who will be represented at the public meeting are the East Coast Alliance, the Freycinet Action Network, the Tasmanian National Parks Association, the Wilderness Society, the Tasmanian Conservation Trust and the St Helens Point Progress Association.

PMAT spokeswoman Sophie Underwood called on supporters to “pack” the Town Hall come next Tuesday.

“We must let our representatives know the community is deeply concerned about the lack of vision and planning at all levels of government that could lead to the destruction of our precious and unique East Coast,” she said.

“The Cambria Green zoning amendment proposed for Swansea is just one of a number of massively scaled, high intensity, inappropriate developments that would change forever Tasmania's magnificent East Coast.

“It would set a precedent that would reverberate right across Tasmania and beyond.”

Representatives from all of Tasmania’s political parties have been invited to speak at the event.