Proposed policy is regressive

The council has placed on public exhibition its Sustainable Event Management Policy.

This is the council's new version of sustainability.

The brief policy document contains ground-breaking actions such as "where possible, ensuring that lights will be switched off when not in use" and "where possible, utilising recycled paper for printed materials and encourage double-sided printing".

Over the years, Gosford Council has produced quality sustainability reports that have gone beyond switching off lights and using double-sided printing.

Obviously, those sustainability reports belong to a different era and have no relevance to the current document.

To make this policy believable, issues that need to be improved are waste, water, energy, culture, education and leadership.

Innovation is required, not regression.

Letter, 25 May 2011 Norman Harris, Umina