The Creighton Report

Wagga Wagga Report
(ii)
Rocky Point Quarries Pty Ltd
ACN: 122 259 965
Registration Date: 18/10/2006
Principal Place of Business: 35 Bomen Road, Wagga Wagga South NSW 2650
Directors: 1. Duncan James McCallum (appointed 18/10/2006)
2. Richard John Pottie (appointed 18/10/2006)
Shareholders: 1. Ladex Construction Group Pty Ltd (50%)
2. Duncan James McCallum and Leonie McCallum (50%)
Principal Activity:
Sand/Gravel Producer and Wholesaler
Legal/Adverse:
Nil found
Rocky Point Quarries Pty Ltd (RPQ) is 50% held by Ladex with Richard Pottie being the Managing
Director. 88 The company was incorporated on 18 October 2006 by Richard Pottie and Duncan
McCallum. Duncan McCallum and Leonie McCallum hold the other 50% of the company.
RPQ operates as a sand/gravel producer and wholesaler based at 35 Bomen Road, Bomen, New
South Wales 2650. It sources its materials from a quarry at 590 Tooyal Road, Euberta, a property
held by Marie Teresa Anderson. 89
RPQ has been awarded numerous contracts by WWCC from 2010 to 2019 valued at up to
$13,755,385 for the provision of winning and crushing of gravel, and supply of road pavement
materials. Some of these contracts have been shared with other companies. 90
Duncan and Leonie McCallum are also the directors and shareholders of D & L McCallum
Pty Ltd, an excavating and earthworks company based in Coolamon, New South Wales. This
company has also been awarded WWCC contracts valued at up to $5,422,040 between
20009/10 and 2018/19. 91
RPQ attracted media attention in 2017 following an internal report tabled at a WWCC meeting on
24 April 2017, 92 which recommended that Council pay $300,000 to seal Tooyal Road, Euberta.
This stems from a development application RPQ submitted to Council in 2011 to expand its quarry
operation at 590 Tooyal Road, Euberta (DA09/0872).
One of the conditions of the approval was to seal 5.4 kilometres of Tooyal Road. The report
revealed the former Director of Infrastructure made a verbal agreement that Council would pay to
seal the road. However, no record of the agreement was filed, nor was it reported to Council or
the cost included in any budget estimates. 93 The Council considered this issue and unanimously
voted to hold RPQ liable to pay for the costs of sealing Tooyal Road. Councillor Kendall declared
a ‘significant non-pecuniary interest’ and vacated the chamber while this issue was dealt with. 94
88
Rocky Point Quarries Pty Ltd ASIC Extract (Attachment 74); See also, Committee 4 Wagga, Board of
Management, Richard Pottie Profile <https://committee4wagga.com.au/board-of-management>.
89
590 Tooyal Road, Euberta NSW Title and Dealing (Attachment 75).
90
WWCC Annual Reports 2009/10-2018/19 <https://wagga.nsw.gov.au>.
91
Ibid.
92
WWCC, 'Agenda and Business Paper - Ordinary Meeting of Council’ (24 April 2017) pp 111-3 (Attachment 76).
93
Stephen Mudd, ‘Wagga City Council Enforces Rocky Point Quarries’ Development Conditions’ The Leader
(Wagga Wagga, 26 April 2017) <https://www.riverinaleader.com.au/story/4623362/council-rejectshandshake-deal>.
94
WWCC, ‘Minutes of the Ordinary Meeting of Council’ (24 April 2017), p 13 (Attachment 77).
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