Ettalong Club was 'a one-off'

So the very pro-development spokesman Matthew Wales is again telling us about the doom and gloom that faces Ettalong if we don't build another monstrosity on the waterfront!

Have we not heard this before?

I thought Ettalong Club was a one-off, the saviour of the village, not to be repeated as it would not be needed!

Well now it looks as though the precedent has been set and it won't be long before the whole Ettalong strip is sold for multi-storey development.

As for the argument about creating 200 construction jobs, that's great but 95 per cent will be workers from Sydney as the major contractor would not be a local company.

The whole development is a short-term money-making plan by the developer.

They build it. He sells them and moves on. And the residents of Ettalong are left with a half vacant building just like the present one!

Email, 1 Jan 2010 Ross Cochrane, Woy Woy