[Editor: In response to the proposed hillside building plans your feedback is on its way. Thanks for doing it Heathcote, it is much appreciated. Don't know what's happening? Take a look here for details. Some of you have kindly agreed to share your feedback with visitors to this site, here are some quotes.]

What this person has to say should give any planner pause for thought:

"If the horticultural area is subdivided, we will have lost the last of this defining characteristic of the valley."

"The statement quoted in the draft plan that housing on this land would 'round off the community' is nonsense."

"Surveyed residents unanimously said they were attracted to the area for its smallness and quietness, the very things that are being rapidly changed."

This resident says we can only get bigger sections and a reserve if we get them to change their mind"

"As presented, all of the development options are completely inappropriate for the valley. Under Option 2, we lose the lower slopes to tiny 450m2 section sizes; Option 4 increases the size to 700m2, but puts houses on the upper slopes too. Instead, I suggest an amended Option 2 is the way forward. These amendments are to make the section size a minimum of 800m2 and for the council to buy the extra areas that would have been used for Options 3 and 4 as reserve."