Council has purchased this property at a price that should make all ratepayers very concerned at how their rates are being spent, and now proposes to demolish the substantial five-bedroom home thereon. No explanation is available as to what, if anything, is proposed for the site.  

There was one dissenting voice from the only neighbour directly affected by the proposal. That voice was drowned in a sea of patronising platitudes from councillors at the council meeting of November 3, 2015.  

Of course the property next door will be adversely affected, how could it not!  It will virtually become a corner property on a busy road, opposite a school, not at all what the owners believed they had purchased seven years ago.  

Security will become a greater issue but the flimsy Colorbond dividing fence currently in place is deemed “adequate” by council who suggested a lattice top could be added to it – really!  One kick in the fence is enough to wreck it - just look at the fencing on the adjoining vacant land where once there stood a service station – a Colorbond fence that is continually vandalised. 

One councillor also suggested that the owners of the adjoining property fronting Summer Street had no grounds for complaint as their home was on a noisy road when they bought it,  though noise was not even one of the grounds on which the neighbours were concerned.  

Dracula needs, if necessary,  to be forcibly removed from the blood bank.  

If this council wants to be a developer then an independent or higher body needs to be the authority to whom it should apply for development consent.    

Has council forgotten that they are merely a voice for their ratepayers.    

Lindy Glover,

Orange