Reserves campaigners attend council session

Representatives from the Save Central Coast Reserves campaign attended a Central Coast Council community engagement session at Wyoming Shopping on Thursday, August 25.

"Save Central Coast Reserves is campaigning to protect 24 local urban reserves, parks and green spaces, including five on the Peninsula, that the council proposes to reclassify and sell-off," said organiser Ms Sue Chidgey.

"Site representatives and affected community members spoke to both Mr Ian Reynolds, the Central Coast Council Administrator, and Mr Rob Noble, council's CEO, to emphasise the importance of their neighbourhood sites both to the community and the environment," Ms Chidgey said.

"Save Central Coast Reserves sincerely hopes that both Mr Reynolds and Mr Noble will decide to protect these sites as hundreds of residents have spent the last year fighting this move by council to raise revenue through the sale of community land," she said.

"Hundreds of emails and submissions have been sent to council before the amalgamation and after.

"Community members and local environment groups have attended public meetings and rallies, given speeches, presented petitions and run events to try to get our voice heard.

"Community lands should not be sold but kept as a valuable community resource for now and the future," Ms Chidgey said.

Media release, 28 Aug 2016

Sue Chidgey, Save Central Coast Reserves