At a meeting of Manyana residents, who are concerned about a proposed development at Inyadda Drive, Mr Shoebridge said he will ask the NSW Planning Minister for an immediate moratorium of any tree-felling for subdivisions in council areas such as the Shoalhaven, Eurobodalla, Bega Valley, Wollondilly and Wingecarribee.

"We don't want to put, not just here but around the state, thousands more people at risk on the fringe of development and fundamentally we also want to protect to protect that bushland."

In submissions to council about changes to the development footprint of the Inyadda Drive proposal, Red Head Villages Association had said it was against any further development at all as it believed "we are at an environmental tipping point".

Manyana Matters representative Jorj Lowrey spoke about another 179-lot development, Manyana Beach Estate and the impacts on the infrastructure and natural environment it and the proposal would have on the area.

Many homes would be used as holiday homes and as the population would swell over holiday periods, more pressure would be put on infrastructure. About 60 per cent of the current properties are unoccupied full-time, she said.

"We don't have the infrastructure. It's over and inappropriate development."

She also spoke of the pain and grief residents have felt watching animals leave the burnt forest for the some of the untouched land - which would be cleared if Inyadda Drive planning proposal is successful.

Others spokes of the issues the community is facing including bushfire management, firefighting facilities, clean-up and the psychological issues many may face, without having to see 70 hectares of land cleared for development.

Mr Shoebridge, a member of the NSW Legislative Council, told the Milton Ulladulla Times he had heard similar calls about standing up for what's left of nature in various places he had visited over the past three days.

"I think we've got a government that if it doesn't respond to this well is going to find itself grossly illegitimate because the kind of grief, resilience and resolve that I've seen here today has been matched in communities I've visited last three days.

"Any government that ignores this call [for a moratorium] is going to find themselves rapidly illegitimate.

Mr Shoebridge was concerned coalition governments will "pretend nothing has changed" and continue to promote coal exports, mining and native forest logging when state and federal parliaments return.

"If governments haven't got the message that there has been a fundamental change in middle Australia, that middle Australia cares a lot more about each other and the nature world they they are going to handover to their kids rather than coal exports it's going to be a short and ugly and brutal finish for this government."