DEAR News Of The Area, IN any study looking at changes in the Jetty precinct both specialist expertise and especially everyday knowledge and sentiments need to be considered. Any future development requires coalitions and interventions adapted to the unique situation that strengthen its substance while promoting coexistence in the precinct. The community

DEAR News Of The Area, I FEEL excited for the vast array of options that the Jetty Foreshore revitalisation draft masterplan offers our growing regional city. We have a great opportunity to have tourist accommodation down there, to help support restaurants and bars on the jetty strip and near the water.

DEAR News Of The Area, THEY ask us to create a vibrant thriving foreshore, but what about Coffs Harbour and surrounding areas that we have completely lost or are lying dormant? Lost: our Civic Centre, our important tourist information centre, the Catholic Club, even St Augustine's nursing home. I have lost count

DEAR News Of The Area, I DON’T know how many toilets Paul Mckeon (‘Harbour foreshores – let’s work on a compromise’, p24, NOTA, 3 June Edition) needs at the Jetty Foreshores, but for more than thirty years there have been three well spaced amenities in the reserve/park. These amenities have been well

DEAR News Of The Area, FOR all the Caz voters in the Sawtell/Toormina area, I have a great suggestion for recycling your corflutes. Please turn them around and print in very large letters ‘NO MCDONALD'S IN TOORMINA GARDENS CAR PARK’, and put them back up in your front yard. It

DEAR News of the Area, FOR most of the last 30 years, anyone using Jetty Beach couldn’t buy a drink or an ice cream and couldn’t find a toilet, and this was in a major tourist town! When the development of the north end of the beach was proposed a few years

DEAR News Of The Area, I HAVE been reading the comments in the paper over the last few weeks about the Jetty Foreshore Development proposal. In particular Gerry McGilvray (‘Coffs Harbour’s right to open public spaces and genuine consultation’, p23, Coffs Coast NOTA, 27 May Edition), who correctly states that the

DEAR News Of The Area, IN response to the unprecedented devastating bushfires of 2019/20, the NSW Government received scientific advice as to how best to respond, to minimize the impact on our natural heritage. At least 174 NSW animal species depend on mature trees for their survival. Previous logging had already decimated old

IN our area we have a man who as a lad grew up at Seal Rocks where his father was the lighthouse keeper. A mutual friend, Aileen Kierath, when discussing this fact, mentioned that her forebear was also a lighthouse keeper. Indeed he was! William Henry Glover

DEAR News Of The Area, HUNDREDS of residential units east of the railway line at the Jetty are the start but not the end of the NSW Government’s assault on the foreshore. The plan also projects commercial and retail development “in balance” with the residential. The residential development, apparently, is