A good news story
Living in this current raging drought, it has come to my attention, the $1.81 million dollar grant for Bowlers Lane. We have a domestic and export milling business on Bowlers Lane, Bellata Gold Milling.
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This grant to bitumen the lane to us, is very exciting, because of the dust that constantly is covering the mill. Recently we had an international customer at the mill when a cloud of dust covered the mill, not a good look and rather embarrassing. So to hear that our local council and Mayor Col Murray, lobbying on our behalf to our Local MP Kevin Anderson, has been successful in achieving a grant for Bowlers Lane.
Also in the recent announcement for the logistics centre on Glen Artney and corner of Wallamore road these are significant investments and will be in the future for Tamworth and surrounding districts. The freight Centre will have the ability to cater for produce into Sydney from the Queensland Border, New England, West to Narrabri, Liverpool Plains, which is a vast agriculture export orientated area.
As an exporter we will be clients when hopefully it will be up and running in October/ November I have been informed. Currently we transport up to 250 containers a year, by road to Newcastle then by train into Sydney. Our hard working council and our local MP Kevin Anderson, take a bow. Well done and thanks once again.
Doug Cush (Chief Executive Officer, Bellata Gold Milling)
Water saving urban design
Rosemary Milson’s letter to the Editor (NDL 27/2/19) is ever so right.
Rosemary writes how her ‘water-wise garden’ of trees, shrubs and grasses makes a ‘contribution to the environment’. Her garden also creates privacy and shade, benefits native species, looks good, and most of all; saves on water. We, as a community, need to educate ourselves about ‘water saving urban design’. Instead we keep missing opportunities to rectify past mistakes.
A perfect example was in 2016 when the Council was preparing to undertake roadworks in White Street and the residents opted to retain ‘broken down gutters’ and have bitumen from gutter to gutter in preference to trees and water saving ideas to reduce the heat island effect and save water.
At that time I handed out leaflets to White Street residents (some wouldn’t even take a leaflet) and wrote a Letter to the Editor. I sat down with our Mayor, Col Murray, Council General Manager, Paul Bennett, and the Director of Regional Services, Peter Resch, showing how it has been done in other areas. All I wanted to do was to convince them of the wisdom of planting trees and how stopping, slowing, trapping, spreading every drop of water that falls and giving it time to soak in; the trees and the rain will rehydrate our city, make it a cooler and more attractive place to live and reduce the effects of drought. When will we ever learn?
Noretta Terry, Tamworth
Tamworth UNE
Why is Tamworth council even considering building a university on a undeveloped site when clearly there is an existing option. All they need do is purchase it. The building has existing parking and a pool. All it needs is some refurbishment and a clean up plus security. This building is in a far better position than eastern peel street. Bring on the old workers club building on Bridge Street.
David Loughran, Tamworth