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Collapse Issue 433 - 27 Nov 2017Issue 433 - 27 Nov 2017
Collapse  NEWS NEWS
Nursing home refusal to be reviewed
Woy Woy police station may get officer-in-charge
Sporties' plan attracts 30 submissions so far
Council abandons Australia Day celebrations
Wicks claims achievements
'Dire need' to monitor oyster leases, says Tesch
Ferry service disruptions continue
Charity ball exceeds fund-raising target
MP to hold youth forum
Blaze burns in national park
New interview room at Mary Mac's Place
Mary Mac's collects for Christmas hampers
Guide issued for objectors to Sporties' proposal
Club plans to raise funds through to Christmas
Night work on Rip Bridge
Council agrees to meeting about Umina oval
Group starts to promote shade trees
First fair for the Bays
Call to control cotoneaster
Local charity appoints new chief
Bays' committee members step down
Information walk about bushfire hazard reduction
Collapse  FORUM FORUM
What is the future of the Peninsula?
Loss of iconic club would be huge
Unanswered questions show need for transparency
Creeks are the best form of drainage we have
Lions Park entrance is a major asset
Good public performance venues needed
Clubhouse is not abandoned
They will not supply a dredge - stop asking
We need sharply-focussed and sophisticated plans
Collapse  HEALTH HEALTH
Aged care provider was awards finalist
Collapse  ARTS ARTS
Jazz played in arboretum
Choir performs for Mary Mac's
Rotary plans Opera in the Arboretum
History book about The Bays
Collapse  EDUCATION EDUCATION
School raises issue of 'inappropriate cyber interactions'
Students help collect soil for memorial
Orchard Hills girls help clean up the Peninsula
School celebrates 90th birthday
New furniture and equipment
Learning about dogs
Students write for Christmas exchange
Celebration
School musical praised
Students sing at shopping centre
Ball games carnival
Collapse  SPORT SPORT
New equipment brings pool to Olympic standard
Umina boxer set for the Commonwealth Games
Killcare surf club rookies go to camp
Charity bowls at Sporties
Fitness program awaits funding approval

What is the future of the Peninsula?

The recent news of Woy Woy Sporties' overdevelopment is not just about the future of an 84 year-old bowling club.

It's about the future of the Woy Woy Waterfront, our recreational precinct on this part of the Peninsula, and the Peninsula itself.

Until this proposal, this kind of overdevelopment was limited to the town centres, where suitable zoning and services exist.

What kind of developments do the people of the Peninsula want to see allowed?

I cannot fathom that anyone believes that this coastal strip is best served by four-storey developments akin to Sydney.

Where would it stop?

Do we rezone so that every house can be bought by cashed up Sydney or international development groups to build and sell off as profitably as possible, to the benefit of the few?

Perhaps the Council should rezone the entire Peninsula?

High density housing in every street, more and more people pushed into every corner from Woy Woy waterfront to Booker Bay down to Kiddies Corner?

It would certainly keep developers and the Chamber of Commerce happy.

Why stop at the loss of bowling greens? I don't bowl, who cares?

But what about the reserves, sports fields or playgrounds?

What about the humble folk of the Peninsula? Don't we have a say?

Surely councillors know what the people truly want.

I don't remember anyone at the recent council elections running on a ticket of mass development on community land.

Councillors, you were just elected to serve the people. Stand up for the people that elected you.

Woy Woy Sporties is just the start.

It's an area that everyone knows is a hub of community recreation, from the Bowling Club, Fishing Club, Sea Scouts, Dragon Boats, fishermen, holiday makers, a kid's playground, a community area for birthdays and barbecues, wakes and early morning walkers.

I see all of this and more every day.

If this development is approved on this scale, then a precedent will have been set and people will be left wondering what happened to the Woy Woy of yesteryear.

So object to developments like Sporties Redevelopment DA53119/2017, let Councillors, State and Federal Members know we want to do things differently to Sydney, because we aren't Sydney.

Because before you know it, you may just want to go have a bowl, and find it's too late.





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