Some of the old National Capital Development Commission hands must be smiling.
During the week, Liberal planning spokesman Greg Cornwell looked back and the pre-self-government NCDC as the good old days when the community knew what was going on and had time to have a say. He fondly recalled the large billboards dotted about the town saying: “”NCDC Site for Community Facility” or whatever.
He was bemoaning the way residents had to find out from construction workers about the construction of Optus mobile communications towers. (The towers don’t actually move; they are for mobile telephones.)
In the good old NCDC days a sign would have been placed at the site months before saying “”Site for Towers”, Cornwell’s theory goes.
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