Taj Mahal should not recur

I am very concerned to see the editor of a regional paper discussing the actions of Tony Altavilla's partially-built timber deck at Woy Woy Bowling club, as a trivial matter.

We are all aware that a development application is necessary for any development.

I remember how the oyster purification plant at Koolewong, turned into the Taj Mahal under similar circumstances.

I am hopeful that such a thing could not recur.

I believe that it is misleading for a paper to give the impression that Mr Altavilla is a man just doing a good deed.

He is after all a developer and the owner of a lot of other places on the Central Coast.

He, more than most, would be well aware of the processes required before building anything, even an extension.

Surely a healthy society requires that everyone, rich as well as poor, obeys the law. Such a society must above all have an independent press, willing to tell a story as it is and not slanted to the advantage of any particular group or individual.

Margaret Lund Woy Woy Bay