Leave Our Park Alone

Greenbelt would be removed; children’s playground moved

Trees would be removed and land built up

Wildlife under threat: bandicoot diggings

Trees against the fence on to Derwent St would go

Gates to go on back boundary to the right of sign

All trees on the left would be removed

Angry residents and friends of Bellerive Beach Park will be gathering this Sunday, 3 June, at 11:00am, to protest the further encroachment onto the children’s playground.

This is the fourth time that Cricket Tasmania wants to take another ‘bite’ of the park, to the detriment of the amenity of the area. This bite directly threatens the area with the best amenity – the children’s playground – the corner of the park that has been valued by locals and visitors for generations.

Clarence City Council invited the public to have a say about the development of Bellerive Park but failed to disclose all the facts.

Council omitted to make it clear to the ratepayers that, to accommodate the request by Cricket Tasmania to have a new entrance/exit via the park, two thirds of the park would have to be raised by 2 – 4 metres, creating a series of embankments.

This would mean that:

• Forty trees would have to be removed, destroying the wildlife habitat for the birds and animals that inhabit the foreshore;

• Access to the grassy play area would be more difficult for parents/grandparents with prams and young children;

• The area would no longer be suitable for ball games due to the embankments and concrete paths;

• The raised grassy play area would be more exposed to the prevailing winds; and

• Intoxicated patrons leaving the oval will have direct access to the children’s playground.

WHAT: Rally to save Bellerive Beach Park

WHEN: 11.00am, Sunday, 3 June 2012

WHERE: Bellerive Beach Park