Site taxi rank on resort property

Gosford Council agenda item TR.06.061 for September 5 (page 214) reveals a desire from the Ettalong Club Resort to have the "noisy taxi rank" moved.

I was reflecting on this while reading Richard Noone's story in a local newspaper "Fed up Peninsula venues to join a midnight curfew".

I realised how inconvenient the location of the taxi rank is, when considering the aspirational desires, published by council in the Macgregor overview, to remove part of Memorial Dr.

Certainly enhancing the club's relationship to the water's edge drives this commercial consideration.

Management may be hoping neighbours ignore the fact that venues similar to the Outrigger Resort have always been a late night noisy minority in our community, something which constituents have had to endure for far too long.

The current location of the taxi rank was in fact influenced initially by the resorts own interest.

Now it presents an obvious barrier to bigger plans for our public land.

The Outrigger Resort, acting in the best interest of our local community, may consider the public relations opportunity pivoting on locating the taxi rank on its own property in a continuation of the turning circle and mandatory disability access on street level.

Edward James Umina