It is profoundly disappointing to see the underwhelming, and apparently cursory, approach taken by Newcastle Basketball (NB) in response to widespread community opposition to the loss of natural grassed sporting fields that are no longer being built in the inner suburbs of Newcastle ('Basketball stadium defended in report on $90m proposal', Newcastle Herald 20/5).
NB's doubling down on a wrongful assertion that there are already sufficient sporting fields elsewhere is nothing short of an affront. It is tantamount to the ramming of a proposal that seems so at odds with its shared membership interests across the region.
