Foreshore protection issues ignored

In passing a motion to submit Ettalong Beach Foreshore Plans to the Department of Lands for adoption, Council has clearly put the interests of business ahead of the community.

In failing to incorporate the priority concerns raised by the Department, about immediate sand replenishment and a foreshore stabilization plan for the Lance Web Reserve, it has completely ignored all the issues of foreshore protection.

These needs have been so clearly expressed all along our coastline, by the increasing adverse weather conditions.

These plans, which reduce the protection for Town Beach available from the well-vegetated dune system and provide no solution to the erosion in Lance Web Reserve, are not in the community's interests.

Unfortunately our grandchildren will have to deal with the consequences of these short-sighted decisions.

Margaret Lund Woy Woy Bay