Letter to the Editor: Don’t exploit a community resource

DEAR News Of The Area,

IT’S interesting to note the slow-down in letters against multi-level housing on the Coffs foreshore.

Have we been bludgeoned into submission?

I, along with 69 percent of other Coffs Harbour residents, am totally opposed to any housing development east of the railway line.

Yes, the area needs development.

Parts of it are a wasteland.

But housing east of the rail line will benefit only the property developers who want to exploit a community resource.

The unassailable fact is that once housing development occurs, it can never be undone or reversed.

Why can’t we have open grasslands, parklands, playgrounds, picnic areas and paths developed to benefit all?

Do we really want a ‘Gold-Coast’ foreshore dominated by high-rise apartments?

I have taken up the suggestion from Paul Amos (Letters 26/9) and written to Paul Scully, Planning Minister.

Yours,
L WALSH,
Coffs Harbour.