People won't benefit from mini Gold Coast

Since when has "purchase by auction" equated with actual ownership of a boat?

Even the very large Tasmanian vessel, which is very expensive to run, shows that a reliable, regular commuter ferry service is very difficult, due to the unreliable conditions on the open sea.

An irregular, tourist boat has obviously been the intent all along.

Yet again the people of the Peninsula have been deceived.

We've had the club-resort, which was to be a one-off exemption from the planning height restrictions on the Peninsula and now we have a regular commuter ferry service which was really to be a tourist ferry service.

These things seem to be heading to the 40-year lease of public land on which to develop a mini-Gold Coast.

Just who will benefit from such a development?

It certainly won't be the people of the Peninsula who are already short of open space.

And whatever happened to honesty and transparency in such dealings?

Margaret Lund, Woy Woy Bay