The Peninsula is full

Mr Matthew Wales from the Peninsula Chamber of Commerce (Chamber calls for higher-density residential zone, Peninsula News, October 3) talks about having to accommodate an extra 70 000 people on the Central Coast.

Really?

Who said?

Perhaps, his business model depends on more and more people squashed into an area of finite size because it will provide more dollars to his members.

Perhaps it's about time he finds a new business model?

The Peninsula is full.

Blackwall Rd and Ocean Beach Rd no longer flow during working hours.

Carparks are full, the local sporting clubs have run out of space, trains to Sydney are packed.

A line must be drawn in the sand, the residents of the Peninsula do not want more high density, we don't want more inappropriate developments like the Woy Woy Sporties behemoth that has again raised its ugly head.

We don't want our reserves sold off.

We don't want every house block razed and rebuilt for two or three units.

We want Council to start thinking about the current residents of the Peninsula, not accommodating more.

Like the great 20th Century philosopher Kevin Costner said, "Build it and they will come".

Well, how about we don't build it, and then maybe no one else will come?

Email, Oct 24

Ross Cochrane, Woy Woy