Sir,

I wish to draw your attention to a very important problem relating to a reserve located between Old South Road and Warby Street, East Bowral.

This parcel of land has been set aside as "open space" an area where people young and old can enjoy a green reserve for leisure activities.

Wingecarribee Shire Council plans to develop the reserve by constructing playing fields, tennis courts and a number of other facilities for the use of the public.

It will still remain an area wherein people may picnic, allow young children to play with their dogs and so on.

However, much to our disgust we find that the council intends to use a considerable part of the land to construct a regional road.

This road would connect Old South Road to the playing fields but unfortunately also to Boardman Road and Rowland Road, this making it a completely 'through' road instead of just an access road to the playing fields.

This road would carry commercial and domestic traffic right through the reserve creating a terrible danger to young children playing and walking on this open space land.

A much shorter road constructed on the eastern border of the reserve would serve as purely an access road and not a through road.

It could be fenced off in a manner to make it attractive and safe and would not be used by commercial traffic.

I would be grateful for your comment on this project.

My wife and I are greatly concerned about the safety of the children who would make use of the facility.

Douglas Ash

Bowral