Jobs are created and jobs are lost

They are not difficult questions.

Does the Peninsula Chamber of Commerce support character trade-offs to accommodate the McDonalds development of Umina?

Is this acceptable?

What will be the financial gain to retailers in Umina resulting from foot traffic utilising the McDonalds store (Peninsula News, January 7)?

Will retailers need to have the same operating hours as McDonalds to attract that foot traffic?

Will the Chamber survey all small retailers at Umina and report on the opportunities created by anchor businesses?

What are the negatives?

The Chamber failed to name any small businesses in its public statements last year.

Will the Chamber publicly acknowledge Aldi, Coles, Woolworths, Bunnings and McDonalds throughout this year, and continue its policy of disassociation with small retailers?

Will this change?

What can be done to improve traffic management along Ocean Beach Rd and surrounding road networks when McDonalds is operating at Umina?

Does the Chamber support the traffic management conditions attached to the DA?

Will there be safety concerns?

Jobs have been created, jobs have been lost.

How many jobs were lost when Mitre 10, Retravision and Flemings closed at Umina?

The Chamber has commented on the "350 jobs created" sometime over the last few years but has failed to mention the jobs lost when Woolworths replaced the Mitre 10 store.

What are the details?

Are the jobs lost at Mitre 10 being transferred to Bunnings and being treated as new jobs?

The Coles site at Umina has been occupied by a supermarket for decades.

Those earlier supermarkets attracted shoppers to Umina without the assistance of the Chamber.

Flemings closed to accommodate Bunnings. Are these new jobs or replacement jobs?

Letter, 22 Jan 2013

Norman Harris, Umina