Green spaces
HERE we go again (Green light for home sites, July 26).
Big business is plundering our green spaces and places of rural beauty in order to transform them into concrete and tile jungles.
Although the developers claim to be taking conservation into consideration, the fact is that once these rural areas are gone, they are truly gone forever.
It’s interesting that the company involved has not yet finalised the lot sizes for the first stage.
Would this have not been a consideration in the granting of the approval by the state government? Does this not allow companies to downsize the dimensions of the lots to even smaller blocks, a trend that has become the norm in other developments in this region?
As far as the statement about existing infrastructure goes, I’m very curious to know how the existing Mount Lindesay Highway will cope now that the morning congestion has already reached car-park proportions.
The haggling over the duplication of this highway has produced nothing but band-aids, and we cannot expect any improvement in the foreseeable future.
We do indeed live in interesting times!
- Elizabeth Holmes, Park Ridge
ABOUT our Greenbank lake, or as Mirvac calls it, an ‘agricultural dam’, I agree with Margaret Francis and her concerns for the wildlife.
I have lived in the area for over 40 years and this lake is far more than just a dam. It is spring-fed and a constant water source for wildlife below and above the waterline.
If the water levels were checked after a fairly dry spell, the water level would be much higher than local dams that rely on run off from rain.
It is a disgrace that Mirvac are going to fill this lake in, as they told me at their community information session prior to asking for objections to the project they could not keep the dam, it was not certified.
Wouldn’t a large company like Mirvac be able to get such an iconic part of this beautiful rural area certified and kept for all to enjoy? How long before the water comes to the surface and a sink hole or similar develops and people lose their properties?
I thank your newspaper for keeping up the publication of peoples’ concerns about this development and hope that someone with understanding and will stands up to Mirvac and the Queensland government.
Residents’ concerns should be considered for the safekeeping of our wildlife and our rural way of life.
- Marjorie Jones, Greenbank
