OPINION: Foreshore Redevelopment Opinion by News Of The Area - Modern Media - May 31, 2022 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 there to “provide economic sustainability” to the commercial and retail. Behind the P.R. gloss and artist’s impressions lies merely a proposal to extend stock standard mixed-use urban development across the foreshore to Jordan Esplanade. No amount of negative feedback seems capable of convincing the planners or our elected representatives that this is not what the community wants. The planners are government employees acting under instruction. The politicians are our employees and should be listening harder. Regards, Frank SCAHILL, Coffs Harbour.
As a resident rate payer and voter I strongly disapprove of the type of development east of the railway line. We’ve got one opportunity to do something pleasing and useful to the whole of Coffs Harbour as well as tourists and international visitors. Once it’s allowed to be developed into private ownership it will never be retrieved and lost forever to the general user of the public., and if that’s the decision that is made and goes ahead and if you won’t listen to our voice now and on petition you will hear our voice at the election. Reply
