While moving a notice of motion during the council meeting on Monday night, Deputy Mayor Eddie Hughes said the State Government should adopt a general position in relation to any negotiation that there be no economic, recreational or environmental disadvantage to Whyalla as a result of the expansion.

He said some of the area lost in the expansion had high scenic and environmental values.

"The expansion has the potential to impinge on future residential development to our west," Councillor Hughes said.

"Apart from insisting on no additional coastal alienation the State should seriously entertain negotiating the return of the 22km coastal strip controlled by the Defence Department and the range of hills extending from Blanche Harbour to Fitzgerald Bay.

"The area contains some of the most stunning scenery in the State with views across the Upper Spencer Gulf to the Flinders Ranges.

"The retention of this important area as a national park deserves serious consideration.

"Good neighbour policy should be adopted because the expansion will significantly disadvantage residents living in the area.

"As firing and other activities will increase in the area residents will be disturbed."

Mayor Jim Pollock said the area was of national importance as far as tourism was concerned.

Some motions that the council will put forward to the State and Federal Governments for consideration are:

- That there is no loss of zones industrial land and specifically the area originally set aside for titanium dioxide manufacturing be retained as industrial land

- That there is no further loss or intrusion upon the coastline of the north of Whyalla

- That there is no impingement upon development to Whyalla's west

- That given the massive expansion of the training range the State Government enter into discussion with the Federal Government to examine the acquisition of the coastal strip controlled by the Defence Department and the coastal escarpment with a view to creating a national park based on the escarpment and the coast as compensation for the massive loss of land to Whyalla's north and west

- That mining exploration/development not be disadvantaged as a result of the expansion.