Our community action group has been working hard. Many residents have posted this placard on their balcony:
I've been busy sending off a few emails to politicians, but who knows if they actually read them. This is my latest, sent to Daniel Pastorelli:
As a new Labour MP, you have to toe the party line. I understand that. However, I think you have been handed a poison chalice as the Project Steering Committee Chair.
The Cook Government has vastly underestimated the amount of opposition to the development of Burswood Park. There are so many of us who want to see the project scrapped.
Even if we can’t actually prevent it happening, we can delay and delay it, so that it will not be completed on time.
Nor will it be on budget - nowhere near! My apartment overlooks the park. At present it is virtually underwater after all the recent rain. The water birds love it! But money is literally going down the drain, as testing of the ground proceeds. I watch heavy machinery coming and going and wonder what all this will cost.
Please reconsider! If you would like to come and have a cup of tea in my apartment and look at the scheme from my point of view, I’d love to see you here.
Meanwhile, there has been a lot of action on the site. Main Roads Dept have been sending down bores:
In our community newsletter, Sue Quinn summed up the situation:
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