Mike Baird | Member for Manly - Save Quarry Reserve

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Save Quarry Reserve

March 11 - Member for Manly, Mike Baird, has called on the NSW Government to halt the proposed sale of land adjacent to Quarry Reserve in North Manly.

�To sell it for development just shows how desperate the Government has become to sell up every scrap of land in a grab for cash, without considering the environmental and community concerns.

�I have raised the matter today in State Parliament, calling on the Government to withdraw the sale and accept the proposal put forward by Warringah Council to make the land designated as a Reserve Trust.

�Warringah Council would then care for, control and manage the land.

�This appears to be an appropriate compromise so that the land is preserved as part of Quarry Reserve.

�I have had a number of people contacting my office concerned about the sale and loss of open space.

�One touching email was from five year old Emily Morgan -

�Dear Mr Baird, please stop the sale now!�

�Children need open space to run around and play.

�Too often that land is being sold up for development and the concerns and needs of children are not even considered.

�Importantly, Quarry Reserve is also home to a wide range of wildlife which will be affected if this parcel of land is developed.

�The NSW Government needs to scrap the sale and leave the land as open space as part of Quarry Reserve, for the benefit of the local community and to protect the native wildlife,� said Mr Baird.

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Quarry Reserve.

Hello Mike,

I do very strongly agree with you & the public in general.
Land as such has to be preserved for our young & future generation.
We have already damaged so much.
However, may I say that your comments of the 5 year old Child was not needed in your message, I am sure that the parents can talk & do not have to send a message involving a young child.
We are grown up & do not have to use this kind of message.
So yes, you have a point as far as the land & let's work on this.
Cheers,
Albert.

Posted by: AlbertSalles at 12-03-2009 12:21

quarry reserve

My husband and I wholeheartedly support Mike's stand on Quarry Reserve. And I agree with Emily, kids need some open space to play in and explore. Quarry Reserve is quaint and unusual, LEAVE IT ALONE.
thanks Mike
Kind regards Pat & Terry Thompson

Posted by: patricia thompson at 12-03-2009 12:44

Quarry Reserve.....

Firstly i apologize Mike for being absent in my replies of late, but thanks to this economic crises, my family and i are becoming one of its victims, my car has gone and trying to hold on to my house, so have been pre-occupied. So to the matter at hand, i commend you for standing up to them, we do need this reserve for our children and wildlife. Where do the kids play and learn about nature if all we do is create and live in a ``concrete jungle``.

Posted by: Debra Arena at 12-03-2009 14:49