21 Questions

Dear Editor, I have seen lots of letters about this high rise, but there are lots of questions that people need to know.

How long will it take to build from start to finish, months or years.

Due to lots of machinery including giant cranes will the Esplanade be shut to all traffic and pedestrians adjacent to the site

Will Cypress street be closed at the rear of the site for materials and site workers to enter and exit.

Will there be daily time limits for work to be carried out.

Will retail and accommodation near the site have to close due to noise and vehicle movements.

How many trades people will be on the site and where will they live if they are not resident in Hervey Bay.

Where will trades people park all day or will they be bussed in.

If there are 400 odd luxury live units and 180 odd hotel rooms where are they going to put roughly 1000 vehicles and some trailers if the complex is fairly full.

Why do we have to solve the shortage of accommodation in a couple of hundred metres where the distance from Point Vernon to Urangan is several kilometres.

I expect there are other questions that people could think of but I will leave it at that for now.

Regards,

Peter Willmott - Eli Waters.

Esplanade Development

I, like many thousands of locals am totally against the 21 storey apartment block to be built on the Esplanade.

I believe it will be the beginning of the end of Hervey Bay as we know it. Once the ball is rolling it will be hard to stop.

I may be selfish but I like Hervey Bay as it is and not turned into another Sunshine Coast, which is still a beautiful place but the traffic gridlock it has takes the pleasure out of visiting.

The same will happen here in 10-15 years time and the Esplanade will be a no-go zone for locals just like Main Street will be in a couple of years time once the Taj Mahal is built.

You will only go there if you had to.

The council cannot keep up with infrastructure now with that many people moving to Hervey Bay.

Do the developers care about the houses and apartments on the eastern side of the 21 storey building whose homes will be in the shade from the early afternoon?

I hope the Councillors have thought long and hard about their decision and the consequences of it both for themselves and the people living here. The only people who will really benefit are the developers, investors and the council.

The rest of us will have a poorer quality lifestyle. I have never believed in change for the sake of change. If it's not broken don't fix it and Hervey Bay is not broken, not yet at least.

Greg Winney – Dundowran

Thank you

I want to say a huge thank you to everyone who joined us for My Greatest Walk this morning, for Myeloma Australia.

I want to thank Cathy and Lesley from Rotary Club of Hervey Bay and Australian Red Cross Fraser Coast for the loan of the gazebo, tables, and chairs. A big thank you to Nurse Tania from St Stephens Oncology unit for joining us.

Many of those who completed the walk were those living with Myeloma, and their families and friends. Everyone managed to complete the 4kms.

We managed to raise approximately $700.00 for Myeloma Australia.

I am so full of gratitude for those who sponsored me or completed the walk.

Many thanks for your time and attention,

Lorraine Veca - Myeloma patient.

Twin Towers.

Will all those in favour of the proposed development which one assumes that the owner[s] will expect to be full of paying customers, start a fund for increased beds in hospitals, larger emergency section, more G.P.s. a new shopping centre for the area, current one not close enough, more 'buses servicing the area, etc.etc. etc.

Pay council for whatever will increase in area, I'm not paying that either, don't like what my money is used for now.

I am sure that before coming to their acceptance of the proposal they will have thoroughly investigated all elements attached, not just liking a pretty building?

We all know that, if this is passed, with minutes, there will be so many similar plans, which are sitting in office desks, just waiting, not so patiently for the signal.

I am sad for those who came here or were born here many years ago, thinking to finish their time on earth out of the 'rat race' from which I thought I had about 20 years ago.

We know what is out there and also sometimes why?

FOLLOW THE MONEY.

Nan Hermit - Local

Trim the fat

Alliances are formed, election promises made, and tributes are paid. nothing much has changed.

Feedback from the general public, your worship, and prospective councillors: the rates have been ratcheted up too high. The fat needs to be trimmed, your remuneration, and the taj mahal-like new council buildings.

Local government act 2009 requires that all residents be allowed to be a part of decision-making throughout the 4-year term. Not a license for our local government to do what it wants, when it wants, or if it wants.

Your worship, we are not a herd of milking cows, milked for higher yield every year through top-heavy rates.

Good luck to genuine candidates with heart and will for the residents here, including the homeless middle-aged female school teacher who has lost her home and everything, now sleeping in parks and has hit the drink.

Herb Taylor - Torquay, Hervey Bay

Anne Street Intersection

I think the intersection at Anne street and Boat Harbour drive is an absolute debacle and disgrace to our council's decisions.

The amount of our $ they have spent on this? Only to make the intersection worse for traffic???.

I used to be able to get out of Bruce Street in the morning with no problem, but now because of the traffic jam there could be a line of cars down Anne street and I have to wait until it's clear or someone let me in. What tha??

It was never ever that bad until council decided to change it, without consultation with locals???

Gary – HB Local