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Newcastle Herald
Newcastle Herald
National
Ian Kirkwood

Singleton bypass families angry at 'lowball' compulsory acquisition prices

Bypass family representatives, from left, Chris McNamara, Matt and Bec Hatch, Elaine Brown, Maurice Butler, Mick McNamara and Gordon Butler, with Peree Watson, Jenny Aitchison and Dan Repacholi. Picture by Ian Kirkwood

A FINAL handful of Singleton land-owners whose properties are needed to complete the state government's Singleton bypass land acquisitions have gone public with what they say are the "highway robbery" prices they are being told to accept.

The farming families, brought together by their fight to get what they believe should be proper prices for their properties, gathered this afternoon at the Glenridding farm of Matt and Bec Hatch, who said the price that Transport for NSW offered for their 4.5-hectare farm was at least $500,000 under what their valuer put on it.

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