Simply goodbye

It is both disappointing and sad to see the new State Government following in the footsteps of Gosford Council.

First of all it was goodbye to the environment department and, since then, it appears to have been "Goodbye, environment".

Despite other Councils being able to incorporate their environmentally-sensitive lands into E2 zones, Gosford Council seems either incapable, or is it just unwilling, to do this and lumps them all into Recreation.

Therefore we can expect to see any time in the future a Caravan Park or Child-Care Centre built in the Pearl Beach Arboretum, Rumbalara or other sensitive areas in the Shire.

The wonderful COSS lands are in jeopardy and all this despite at least 150 submissions being received entreating Council to think again and to reword their draft LEP.

Everything we use or own; everything on our backs or on our tables, even the money in our bank accounts comes from the environment.

We are a part of the environment.

So if it is "Goodbye, environment", it would seem that it is simply "Goodbye".

Email, 14 April 2011 Margaret Lund, Woy Woy Bay