NINETY-year old Jean Keys is fed up with ghettos, [Ipswich Tribune, Letters to the Editor, August 2, ,P8].
The Council isn’t .They think they are a great idea and the way of the future.
Kookaburras are gone from Bundamba. They are disappearing from Bellbird Park – check out around the Avid Brentwood “Forest” Estate.
Residents in Ventura Ave, across the creek, also noticed the birds had fallen silent.
Avid are “keeping an eye on” the cat’s claw vine as are the council, whilst they bulldoze down to Woogaroo Creek and its tributaries, spreading its seeds just ready for Spring.
The council sit on their collective hands as usual. Don’t hold your breath about community consultation, that’s the last thing they want.
Have you seen or heard anything from our council representatives Nicole Jonic and Paul Tully? They tell me Bellbird Park is zoned residential so it’s all over. Community involvement?
They should read my submission on how to structure community groups, but they have already, it’s not a good idea. Contact me and others, like Jean. Back the setting up of community groups. Fat chance. Better to keep Bellbird and Bundamba residents in the dark.
Councillors Marnie Doyle and Andrew Fechner are your reps Jean. Contact them. They have read your letter, they should be contacting you especially as a long term resident. It would be a radical act and totally without precedent. But what would a 90-year-old have to offer? Ghettos are the go.
Council must release what percentage of Ipswich residents bothered to make a submission to the draft Ipswich plan. Acting on them is of course another matter.
Such a group could among a myriad other issues suggest trees for nature strips. Get council to plant your nature strip. You are entitled and it would begin to contribute to wildlife corridors.
The council have however been lazy in planting a monoculture of Ivory Curl. It bears toxic seeds to fauna and doesn’t attract birds. True natives to this area are needed. You may have noticed the trees planted on the median strip on the superhighway in Springfield. They aren’t local natives.
Now how would the community be consulted and who cares?
— DAVID HARRIS, Bellbird Park