Green Point Foreshore Reserve "8 metre wide gash for cycleway in the most sensitive part of Green Point Reserve should not be countenanced’ Doug Lithgow.

The residents don’t want cycleway near their properties.

The Conservation Movement doesn’t want it in the sensitive part of the reserve.

Cyclists of NSW don’t want it because it cannot comply with the standards req.

Why is Council still considering its construction?

"Parks and Playgrounds Movement wants Lake Macquarie Council refuse the DA D/2001/1642 for cycleway construction in the most sensitive part of Green Point Reserve". Movement’s President Doug Lithgow said.

The core values of the Green Point Foreshore Reserve must be paramount in Council’s mind when considering developments in the reserve. ‘Conservation objectives prevail’ (POM 3.4 ).

Urgent refocus needed.

Council must focus on the protection of the reserve and its sympathetic presentation to the wider lake Macquarie Community and the Region.

• The Reserve was acquired to protect the bushland on the lake foreshore and the Council’s Green Point Committee was constituted to advise Council. It included a cross section of people qualified by their knowledge of the reserve and with standing in the community.
• The Green Point Reserve Committee has now lost its focus and its balance because Council changed its composition to push a cycleway through the most sensitive part of the reserve. 

• The Committee as now constituted can only give Council tainted advice.
  
  
• We ask you and your fellow councillors to place a permanent stay on the construction of cycleway in the Dilkera Ave end of the reserve (Because it requires a 7 to 8 metre road clearing through the most sensitive part of the reserve).

• The off-road cycle link has been completed in the reserve from Green Point Drive to Ross St. and the Croudace Bay Road route is the official Newcastle /Lake Macquarie Bike Plan Regional Cycle way Route.

Funds should be directed to providing a landscaped main entrance to the reserve off Green Point Drive along with public facilities and picnic grounds. The official plan envisages an attractive public area with unrivalled views across the bushland to the lake and mountains in the distance.

The development of the entrance area would transform the current nasty and mean entrance and make the reserve easily available and comfortable for the general public.

It would give the reserve the focus envisaged in the official plan. (POM)

Providing facilities at the main entrance for the wider community and protecting the sensitive areas would give ratepayers the best outcome and relieve pressure at Dilkera Ave.