Northern Star - Letters Section - Cold Welcome
03 April, 2007
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What a nice group of people development group Petrac are, inviting the Lennox Head community along to voice their view on their future of our village. A future now sure to be heavily influenced by Petrac’s decision to impinge an additional 600 dwellings and associated population on our humble community.
While we are free to provide constructive criticism on the design of Petrac’s vision for our village, far be it for them to allow us to provide opinion on the far bigger picture: Does Lennox Head even desire such growth?
While many developers operate under (and capitalise one) the paradigm ‘growth is inevitable’, the last time I checked it was a pretty simple equation – don’t build the houses and the growth can’t occur!
Petrac’s public meeting on Friday night was pathetic. How my heart bleeds that the State Government’s planning regulations make life difficult for Petrac’s in-house design team.
It wasn’t hard to work out who thy Petrac associates were at this meeting when the ‘in’ jokes about local and state planning legislation were made.
The locals certainly weren’t laughing.
Have Petrac ever stopped to think that such protocols might be in place for a reason?
Oh, that would be to protect coastal villages from the onerous visions of developers in the first place, people I might add who mostly live a long way from Lennox Head.
Sustainability was also another term frequently coined at this meeting. How is such a large development sustainable when current infrastructure provisions struggle to cope with current demand?
Better go back to the dictionary on that one, Petrac.
Come on people of Lennox and other coastal villages – stand up and fight to protect what we love from the ‘visions’ of greedy ‘blow-in’ developers.
Bugger off, Petrac. You haven’t lived here long enough to understand the long term implications of your superfluous development.
MATTHEW LAMONT, Lennox Head