http://www.illawarramercury.com.au/story/401873/landowners-offered-...

Long-suffering landowners in a controversial South Coast estate are being offered $5000 a block to hand their properties over to form part of Jervis Bay National Park.

The purchase offer has come from the Foundation for National Parks and Wildlife, a not-for-profit organisation that purchases land for conservation, which has been given $5.4 million from the federal government.

People who had bought into the estate in the 1980s and '90s on the expectation it would be rezoned to allow housing found themselves on the outer in 2009 after a decision to quarantine the area from development.