I encourage all Papamoa residents and ratepayers to send in a submission to Tauranga City Council urgently as well as speak up loudly as your council may have a further hidden agenda as it did in the late-1990s with the Gordon Spratt Reserve lands.

At the time, some councillors and TCC were involved in a plot to sell off a large area of the now Gordon Spratt Reserve to a well-known Bethlehem-based developer and use the sale proceeds from the land to develop the remainder of the Reserve.

Lucky for Papamoa residents this hidden agenda was blown by the then-councillor David Stewart.

This caused an outcry from all of the locals with a result that the land remained in council ownership and the Gordon Spratt lands were all developed into the fields we have today.
So speak up Papamoa East residents and families, lobby all your councillors, TCC and its staff in regards to greater provision for lands for sports fields and recreation.

Please just do not leave doing your submission and objection in the ‘too hard basket' as your neighbour won't do it, get it lodged urgent.

B Jackson, Papamoa.