Why Are We Giving Away The Esplanade?
Ever since the days of the villages, strung out along the beach, what has now become The Esplanade has belonged to the people who live here. The Esplanade was the core of each village (perhaps with the exception of Pialba).
As the villages grew into what we have now the importance of The Esplanade grew until today it is the heart of the city. We go there to relax, to celebrate, to have fun, to show our family and friends from other places just how beautiful this place is and now we are giving it away.
The character of The Esplanade is disappearing behind a facade of ugly glass fronted Lego building blocks. The beauty of the beach is being overshadowed by the greed of others and it’s all being given away to people who don’t even live here.
Who gave permission for this to happen? Where we even asked if we wanted to give away our treasures?
We elect people to council to protect us from this and they rubber stamp one development after another. Why are they not listening to us? Why are they giving The Esplanade away to others when we don’t want that to happen?
What will this place be when the beauty and the character of The Esplanade is no more?
Ted will you be proud to stand there and say “I led the council who did this?”
It’s not too late to start listening to what we - the residents of this beautiful town - are saying. Stop the rot! Save The Esplanade and be a true leader and hero of the people.
Ted do you really want to be remembered as the person who turned Hervey Bay into a blight on the coast of Australia?
How much worse can it get when one of the finest houses on The Esplanade
is now up for sale as a development property?
