New building won't stop boarded shopfronts

I cannot see how a seven-storey development such as suggested will stop broken beer bottles from littering the beach or boarded up shop fronts with ugly graffiti, as suggested by Maya Koopman (Peninsula News, February 7).

If this theory was correct, the Ettalong Beach Club and the monolith built on the old Somersby fruit market site (in which all shops are still vacant) would have prevented this.

Perhaps better policies would solve this problem.

As for Janice Kissane looking forward to seeing cranes in the air, go to Sydney and see cranes until your heart's content.

To me, they are visual vandalism.

Low level development of a high quality, fitting into the environment of the Ettalong village is what is needed, not a seven-storey tower.

Letter, 9 Feb 2011 Michael Caut, Ettalong