Speak up to protect beautiful area

How I love this beautiful area, from the great availability of an interesting bush walk to our spectacular beaches from Patonga to Tuggerah and beyond.

From my dad's fishing shack at Point Clare in the 50s, to my parents' upgrade to Koolewong, with a gradual migration of family and friends in the 60s-70s, all of us sharing in the community and great friendships that were on offer.

So, why is it that a suspected tension is beginning to be felt among our residents?

Yes, in all of these years, I have witnessed a growth in housing and of course population, with the council not quite keeping up with infrastructure.

Now that's worse, with the amalgamation and very few public consultation projects undertaken that do not suit our environment, like the aesthetic ugliness of the low-cost housing development in Oval Ave, Woy Woy, and the large developments that will be established in Umina and in Ettalong.

Parking areas will now be gone.

Then of course there is the dictatorship of the Baird Government.

Don't ask, just do.

New trains, less seats, more commuters.

Sell off and develop developers.

Please, good and faithful Peninsula residents, if and when the bureaucrats or developers over step their mark, let your voice be heard.

We have two local State Members and a Senator. Let them know your opinion.

Let us maintain our great sporting and social community, and let it be known that we will be heard and preferably listened to.

Email, Sep 4, 2016

Genny Murphy, Woy Woy