“Airport expansion necessary.” Central Coast Express Advocate, 4 December 1996.
This letter provides a strong contemporary statement of community support for Warnervale Airport during the 1996 development controversy. John W Edwards identifies himself as a long-term Wyong Shire resident who had lived directly beneath the airport circuit for seven years and states that he had experienced little reason to complain about airport operations.
This makes the letter particularly useful in the historical record because it directly counters contemporary claims concerning the effect of airport operations on nearby residents. Edwards also argues that expansion of the airport should have been foreseeable as the surrounding shire developed and rejects the characterisation of airport opponents as representing the broader community.
The letter additionally records opposition to proposals for the NSW Government or Wyong Council to relieve Jorg Breitkopf of the $95,000 legal costs awarded following his unsuccessful court challenge. Edwards concludes by describing the airport as a necessary Central Coast facility and states that its facilities and members had operated harmoniously with the general public since 1971.
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