Tom Breen (Your View, April 8) can try to justify his family's destruction of the Wanda sandhills any way he likes but the fact is they have removed an important part of the Bate Bay ecology forever.
The natural regeneration of the beaches after storms is no longer possible as anyone who remembers the width of Wanda beach years ago will attest. If you have flown over the Kurnell peninsula you will see just how many future developments are earmarked to populate the area, no matter what is claimed, with just the one road in and out. Mr Breen can sit back and count his profits after removing the once majestic sandhills. His legacy: more traffic congestion and 10 playing fields. He should be ashamed, not proud.
Gordon Roberts, Sylvania
Tom Breen's response (Your View, April 8) to Brian of Caringbah's criticism of his company's removal of the Cronulla sand dunes is a flimsy piece of PR. Mr Breen warbles on as if his company has been some kind of great benefactor to the construction of the shire and greater Sydney.
The reality is that he and his predecessors owned a sandmining company that systematically removed the once towering sandhills for commercial gain. Mr Breen won't be remembered for his contribution to any parks and playing fields where the sandhills once stood, but as part of a dynasty that forever changed the coastline of Cronulla — for the worse.
Noel, Yowie Bay
Mr Breen, please would you just make your fortune and suffer in silence instead of bleating on about being the shire's biggest charity organisation. Live with it: most who have lived here for a long, long while do not like the loss of our sandhills. Stop trying to justify getting rich from their demise as being for the good of the shire.
Mark McCarthy, suburb withheld
