The lessees of The Anchorage Hotel/Marina are required to relocate this sand back to Conroy Park Beach, as a condition of their 1990 DA approval of which, it is my understanding, has not happened.

This condition should be enforced by the council and the NSW Government.

The government should be relocating the rock groynes parallel to the foreshore also at Sandy Point to allow the free-flow of sand from Bagnalls Beach

With another high rise building in Sydney under stress, people should think twice about increasing building heights in Port Stephens, and I am not over-stating the case for safety.

With over 40 years of civil and structural engineering experiences in Australia and overseas before retirement, I do appreciate how things could go wrong even with the due diligence of the designers and builders.

That's where the approving and certifying authorities have the important responsibility of ensuring safety and comfort for the residents and public alike.

Ernest To, Medowie

Also read: Letters to the Editor, June 13

One of reason residents are being moved out of the Tomaree lodge at Shoal Bay is that the old properties and infrastructure are too expensive to maintain.

All the buildings and infrastructure should be bulldozed and removed, then trees planted to encourage wildlife to return the headland to its pristine pre-war environment.

Keep the walkway with some history information signs and audio posts, then visitors can enjoy the wildlife and nature walk, because if we don't, the running and maintenance cost will be enormous.

Consequently the unacceptable costs will be so excessive the site could be sold to a developer.

Also read: Letters to the Editor, June 6

Congratulations on Councillor Giacomo Arnott for once again standing up for constituents in a 'friendless' environment following his unsuccessful attempt to debate changes to the code of meeting practice policy.

The role of the Mayor is to support and represent his fellow councillors despite their political affiliations and differences of opinion.

To publicly announce Councillor Arnott [Examiner, June 13] was "throwing his toys out of the cot when things don't go his way" is disrespectful and a poor choice of words from our elected Local Government Leader.

He should publicly apologise. The message is clear, the council is not listening to the ratepayers as evidenced in the recent IPART SRV rejection.

Having ignoring the wishes of the community, prepared a poor application and running a second-rate community consultation, the council has no one else to blame but themselves.

The next LG election is just over twelve months away, September 2020, the current term shortened over the council amalgamation debate.

At its Ordinary meeting on June 9, 2015, Port Stephens Council asked councillors to support a report on amalgamation where Port Stephens Council deemed itself to have the scale and capacity to remain an independent entity.

The report stated: "In the interests of our community it is not anticipated that council would seek any special variations to rate in the foreseeable future".

Cr Arnott is correct when he calls for greater council transparency and this is clearly required before the next election with massively expensive issues such as Lagoons Estate Drainage legal matter drawing to final expensive conclusion.

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