The wet weather stew!!

No I haven't been cooking...well not in the kitchen anyway! I want to believe I tell myself. I want to believe in our elected members of our local government...yes the ones we put there to look after our interests...the residents of Ascot Waters Belmont. Am I naive? Just a little bit? I think you might be right if you think so.

A storm is brewing. Can we experience honest land dealings between our Council and possible buyers of 52 Grandstand Road? Yes it is believed that the building of a Retirement Village plus apartments with an ICONIC building of between 3 and 7 storeys high will benefit the residents of Ascot Waters.
 In what way we all ask? So the traffic noise, hold ups and dangers we face now coming from the roundabout will be intensified by friends' cars, visitors' cars , carers' cars and delivery trucks all searching for parking spots?

 My feathers have been ruffled! And for how much longer do we have to put up with all this deception...this quiet little advertisement in newspapers no one ever sees at this end of the city.
This endless greed for more and more rate payers while the ones who bought years ago sit in their sunless housing previously attracted by the award winning landscaping and walkways .... now  surrounded by people and cars.


But look there is some good news...they have remembered that locals do at times walk from A to B to enjoy the pleasant gum trees and walkways.
And wouldn't we all be so forgiving and compliant..if only we could be.

 What other footpath? This is the only one we have ever had!! But look....they are thinking of us....all the time...






A lovely speed limit! Haven't we asked for that for some time now? Yes In Lakewood Avenue...but no!
An accident has to happen first. We can't have everything. And look, we do have that lovely ICONIC
entrance....!! That'll make the retirees want to come to settle in Belmont......                                          
Gophers and all.