Once more the old furphy about development being required to house our children and grandchildren is trotted out to condemn those opposed to overdevelopment.
Our children and grandchildren are not the issue.
A family might need more accommodation at one point but unfortunately we all die so less family accommodation is needed at others.
The real driver of overdevelopment in Sydney is the vastly excessive rate of immigration which feeds the greed of developers and big business.
For small business and workers it means a much smaller share of a bigger pie and a deteriorating environment.
It is notable that the Greens had a letter ‘Save Our Rangers’ highlighting the poor treatment of our national parks by the NSW Liberal/ National Government.
However, they have nothing to say about the excessive rate of immigration.
Time to look to a real environmental champion and a new political party Sustainable Australia fighting for a sustainable level of immigration level fits the bill.
We are subjected to an endless barrage of advertising about the joys of consumer products to the point of brain washing.
Unfortunately high per capita consumption and rapidly increasing population are not a sustainable mix.
Richard Moran, South Caringbah
Stop foreign investors buying all our real estate and stop the ever growing immigration to Australia. Give Australians a fair go.
Jared Barclay
Once again, some of us are blaming our locally elected representatives for the perpetual overdevelopment of our local area (‘‘Hi-Rise to change the face of Sutherland’’, Leader, January 31).
Instead of just blaming local government we should question the motives of those at both state and particularly federal government levels.
The economic reforms (beginning in the 1980’s) that we have to keep having which for the most part equates population and economic growth (and indoctrinates us to a mindset of ever increasing competitiveness at all costs).
This is a significant factor in the situation that the rest of us are now having to tolerate without question.
Mark Cudmore, Engadine