Youngsters have say on Narooma landscaping

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• SCHOOL SAY: The students at Narooma Public School were consulted on what they want the Narooma Flat to look like…

AROUND 80 Year
Five and Six students from Narooma Public School last Wednesday had their say
on the design of the landscaping phase of the Narooma streetscaping project.

Eurobodalla Shire
Council project engineer Russell Burke and engineering cadet Tom Franzen
visited the students to show them plans of the road works and new roundabout
that are under construction.

The engineers
listened to their ideas on the landscaping that is to complete the works by
improving the streetscape along the Narooma Flat.

“The students
were keen to have their say and gave us great feedback by completing the phase
two survey and giving us drawings that represented what Narooma meant to them,”
Mr Burke said.

The students’
drawings were full of ideas about what they like to see included in the
landscaping design.

Eurobodalla Shire
Council Youth Committee members also contributed thoughts and ideas to the
project.

To date, Mr Burke
said 191 surveys have been returned to council and he and the consultant
landscape architects, Ayling Drury, agree this is an outstanding response
so far.

The community has
until this Friday to have their say by completing the landscape design survey
available at www.esc.nsw.gov.au

Hard copy surveys
can also be picked up at Narooma Library, visitors centre and depot and at Club
Narooma and ABC Meads Bakery on the Narooma flat.

Narooma
Streetscape Sunset Advisory Committee chairman and mayor Lindsay Brown said the
next step would be the preparation of a draft concept plan by Ayling and Drury
that considers everyone’s feedback.

“This concept
plan will then be presented to the community for further comment,” Clr Brown
said.

Narooma Sporting
and Services Club general manager Tony Casu said one concern was adequate
parking for the combined pool, NATA Oval and leisure centre complexes to allow
for say a swim meet and market on the same day.

The club wanted
to ensure its parking was not all taken and also had concerns about access to
club during the works and the final lay-out.