Letter to the Editor: Spin Machine

Spin machine

Clover Moore has more spin than a pink fairy floss machine and just as little substance (“Caretaker’s cottage falls,” City News, December 23) . Her constant mantra that the former historic 1948 caretaker’s cottage in heritage-listed Rushcutters Bay Park has no significance shows a loose inventiveness with the facts. In fact, the cottage was given an A-grade classification for its high historic and social significance by council’s own 2001 Conservation Management Report, although a later report did not rate its architectural significance as high. Further claims, also untrue, that a single new court, and not three new courts as claimed, justified demolition lack any credibility with council’s own Plan of Management showing three courts with the cottage remaining in situ and plenty of room left for open space.

Demolition of the cottage won’t create new space because its space will be taken up by a massive new intrusive kiosk elsewhere, double the size of the original.

With time overruns, costs doubling and no completion date in sight, an Enquiry should be initiated: it’s clear this council has reached a new nadir.

Vile claims by councillors Black and Tornai in the council chamber, made with any right of reply to objectors, that protestors are liars and selfish surely make Clr Black’s claim a case of the pot calling the kettle black!

Andrew Woodhouse

President. Potts Point and King Cross Heritage Conservation Society