Site needs preservation

I would like to ensure Peninsula residents are aware that on Tuesday, July 27, Council will discuss one aspect of the land on the corner of Hillview St and Veron Rd in Woy Woy.

The agenda item is the "Acquisition of privately owned land for environmental purposes".

Recently I and other local residents collected over 100 signatures and statements opposing the development of this bushland block, and supporting its retention as native bushland.

Other residents wrote in separately to Council objecting to the proposed development.

This site, in the middle of suburbia, with its diversity of growth, needs preservation so that adults and children in future may enjoy it, as well as we who are living now.

Where else can we go to see such cycads from the time of the dinosaurs, and such clusters of grass trees? These are now in our midst, and can not be brought back once they are destroyed.

I urge all interested people to attend on Tuesday evening so Councillors can see the community support for council to buy this environmentally sensitive land.

Norah Clarke, Woy Woy