Dear Bugle,

Thanks for the opportunity to voice my opinions, and thanks for your fabulous publication for which I am very grateful.

As someone who regularly attends the KCP meetings in an effort to be informed of the local goings on, I would like to comment on several of the current topics of interest.

There has been for months discussion about the value of 'community engagement' by Council.

Can I say that I think the Council is being disingenuous about this. They 'publish' all sorts of things on the Council Website, but many people don't have access to that, or can't find their way around it even if they have the time and inclination.

If Council really wants people involved, they need to do what KCP did last month to get such a roll up to the meeting. People heard about it, so they turned up.

While I acknowledge that development is needed and is inevitable for Kiama , I think that the local residents need to be actually listened to, because we are those who would protect our town from overdevelopment, by those whose only motivation is profit.

We need good design, open space, updated infrastructure, etc etc. Regarding Akuna St, how anyone can even think about cutting down the trees there is absolutely beyond me, and will someone tell me, if there are to be two supermarkets? (why two)?

Can someone tell me when the trucks that would need to stock the supermarkets are going to come into town and how? Are those who pay huge money for their prime location going to be woken every night by trucks that have trundled over the roundabouts to service supermarkets, or will there be more traffic chaos during the day?

Don't even start me on the 6 storey issue.

Thanks for listening!

Helen Lawson