I fully agree with Bradley Perrett regarding the relocation of Newcastle Basketball Stadium ("A solution to the basketball mess", NH, 19/7). I also support the view of Peter Evans ("Show of support for basketball stadium", NH, 19/7).
I live in Lake Macquarie, but have close family who live within a stone's throw of Wallarah Oval and the dreaded Monash Avenue drain that often runs full after a storm. I cannot fathom the utter madness of building the sorely needed new basketball stadium in such a stupid location, with its traffic and flooding nightmares, and, of course, depriving the public and high schools of sporting ovals/open space that will be sterilised. The Broadmeadow Place Strategy says quite a lot of flood mitigation works are 10 to 20 years in the making, so what comes first? New development or flood mitigation engineering?
