Signboards are visual vandalism

Ever since Kourung St, Ettalong, was named, residents, boat owners, fishermen and tourists approaching the waterfront have enjoyed superb views looking across Broken Bay's narrow entrance to the bush-clad hill of Kourung Kourung (Wagstaff Point).

Now by an act of visual vandalism, Gosford City Council have, at considerable cost to ratepayers, ruined the view from Kourung St and the corner shop by erecting a huge notice board covered with a corrugated roof alongside the modest boat ramp.

From a distance this blot on the landscape looks like a bus shelter or country dunny.

It's much larger than any of the notices previously put up by the Waterways authority, which are bad enough.

The position of the numerous signboards shows contempt for aesthetic values.

Why can't all the notices be moved a few yards further south?

My neighbour suggests they should all be lowered to ground level which seems a sound idea.

It probably won't be long before mindless graffitists deface the obnoxious new noticeboard, making the view from the street even less attractive.

Eric Shackle, Ettalong August 27