Debts of gratitude

Debts of gratitude

The Southport Park/Ridgeway Avenue Community wish to thank Councillor Susie Douglas, Councillor Dawn Crichlow, Dr.Alex Douglas MP, J.P. Langbroek MP, for their support.
We also wish to thank the Officers of Gold Coast Planning & Social Health who worked within the constraints of a cumbersome Planning Act. Their diligence and professionalism is to be applauded.

Thanks also the reporters of the Gold Coast Bulletin, The Sun Newspaper. NBN TV and Hot Tomato who made it possible for a small cohesive community to get their voice heard.
Last but not least officers of GCIT and QAC, with whom we had several amicable meetings. We did agree to disagre. Also the QAC executives who visited us in April to discuss their and our views on the outcome of the project.

Alone we can do little, but as a community we have a voice. That voice will have be used more in the future, as we strive to save our communities from developers who will use the new and untested Sustainable Planning Act to stretch the limits of permissible development, supposedly in the name of smaller lot ratios. We think it is not so much about population density increase as about greed. Our values matter.