Buy bush block with open space funds

There has been lots of talk about the need to acquire more Peninsula land for open space.

The treed block on the corner of Veron Rd and Hillview St, Woy Woy, would be an excellent acquisition choice.

No houses need to be removed, and fine specimens of xanthorrhoea (grass trees) grow there among the angophora and eucalypt trees.

It is adjacent to two schools, and so provides an easy educational and recreational area for students and parents.

Many people already walk there, enjoying the greenery, the birds and other wildlife along the creek.

This land meets the passive recreational needs identified in the Peninsula review, when consultants identified the need for areas of natural bushland for residents to walk in.

I encourage Peninsula residents to have their say when the Council's Section 94 Contribution Plan goes on public exhibition.

The Plan's amendments need to allow this land to be purchased so that we have this one natural bushland area left on the Peninsula.

Shirley Hotchkiss, Umina