Apparently, access for pedestrians across Monkittee Creek is inadequate and there is a danger for pedestrians crossing the bridge.
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If there is a development proposal in this area increasing the number of people using this path, then the council has authority to demand a contribution from the developer, the same as for other developers.
When I built three aged units off Malone Street increasing the traffic, I was required to construct a road between Malone and Coronation Avenue and storm water drainage from the Ryrie Street houses.
Margaret Royds, Bedervale
Caveat emptor
I write in support of Forbes Gordon (BT, June 21) about the need to preserve historic sites in Braidwood.
The arguments put by Dr Cairns (BT, June 14) seem to hark back to a narrowly framed concept of ownership, which is a left-over from early colonial-exploitative attitudes, if not downright medieval.
If Dr Cairns is so worried about one of the most important early sites in Braidwood preventing a routine piece of housing development, perhaps he should have been a bit more careful when he bought the land in the first place. Caveat emptor.
If he is worried about Braidwood’s listing as a heritage town not having done it any good, how is his proposed development going to help rectify this position?
Older readers may remember the Model Major General in The Pirates of Penzance. This gent had bought himself a nice old manor house on the pretty coast of Cornwall to retire to, but found his purchase included a ruined chapel and a family cemetery.
He says: “When I bought this property, I bought all the contents. In this graveyard there are ancestors. I don’t know whose ancestors they were, but I certainly know whose ancestors they are, because I bought the place.” He is worried his own behaviour might “besmirch their escutcheon”.
None of us really owns anything on this planet. We are stewards. Naked we come in, naked we go out.