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Comment 1 12 Feb 2008, 4:33 PM
understand bowral has had 2 meetings off 100 plus
99% against Parks being private and deserve there own pool
Comment 2 21 Feb 2008, 2:00 PM
The Bowral meetings were overwhelmingly against selling any of Bowral's parks or bushlands, especially to pay for a leisure centre at Eridge Park.
The opposition was not aimed at the principle of building a leisure park itself.
The big question was whether or not we could afford it.
Virtually all speakers agreed that if meant having to give up our green areas forever, never to be replaced, the cost was too high.
Speakers argued that the council should be striving for more parks not fewer.
Some of the strongest protests came from the more than dozen speakers who was spoke out against the plans to sell most of Westwood Park (and to re-zone it was R3 multi dwelling.
Such changes would inevitably mean, among other things, the destruction of more than 50 mature gum trees and their bird life in an old residential area, which has been losing trees at an alarming rate in recent years.