Precedent set for other reserves

This decision is a travesty to the environment and the local area’s feel as a whole.

Removing every blade of grass from a previously green and luscious reserve while damaging or allowing the further damage of the only remaining foliage must not be an issue to the council.

The implications to the environment from doing this must not have been considered or studied.

There are soil deposits in all surrounding gutters, soil and rocks all over the roadways and each verge adjacent to the reserve is being damaged.

The next rains will wash all this clay compound soil down to our waterways and will continue to do so until grass is returned to this location.

All trees under 2m have been stripped almost bare of their foliage and the reserve now resembles a barren dump site.

What kind of precedent does this set for any and all other small reserves in the shire? When the next lot of children or adults decide to dig up their local reserve will it all be ok with the council?

You can dig up a reserve in Engadine, why then can’t I do so in Sylvania?

There is no fence surrounding the reserve to limit the damage and soil dispersion to the reserve and there are no trees and shrubs surrounding the reserve to limit the airborne soil dispersion through gusts of wind.

Was there an environmental impact study conducted in the approval of this? Was there an impact study to the property prices and the daily lives of residents in the area if this stance continues from the council?

This reserve is located on a corner with a dangerous incline. There is no buffer zone between traffic and children.

So disappointed.

Norman, Engadine