Local government elections are coming up and the following item was received from the We Love Warringah party. WLW is running on a set of policies that are pro-beach and pro-surfing. RealSurf will be happy to publish similar policy documents from other coastal Council candidates and parties. All we ask is that the statements be short, to the point, and to deal primarily with your policies about beach and surfing issues.
Dear Realsurfers…
OK – you might think these are the three most tedious words you will ever find in the same sentence together – Local. Government. Elections.
But the people who will control your waves – your access to breaks through parking spaces, rock-dumping extravaganzas, sea walls and beach-side development – are asking for your vote on September 13.
For all Sydney north-side surfers, there’s no more critical vote than the one you’ll cast in the Warringah Council election – the body that administrates the beaches from Queenscliff to North Narrabeen.
In the past local surfers and we, their supporters, have battled to stop a proposed massive concrete sea wall from Collaroy to Narrabeen. We have fought a 250-seat beach-front café at Narra; an ugly development on the beach at South Curl Curl and a three-storey office block and function centre at Longie.
There is one group contesting the election– We Love Warringah – that has been forged from the heart of these battles.
We want your vote so that we can continue to pursue the interests of surfers on Council.
We advocate sand nourishment rather than sea walls; we want to negotiate with surf clubs to limit their ad-hoc expansion; we want to declare Longie a conservation zone; we want to fight those who are dog-whistling the forces of law and order in a bid for “zero tolerance” on the Northern Beaches.
The We Love Warringah team is a non-politically aligned group of local residents who put beach preservation at the top of their agenda.
If you live, surf and vote in Warringah – we ask you check out our website at www.welovewarringah.com.au and share the love.
Wherever you see the symbol of the blue heart – that’s where we are.
Paul Jaffe. Mayoral and A ward candidate.
We Love Warringah
