Half of the traffic lanes in Corrimal Street between Crown and Burelli are blocked on an almost daily basis while the developments on both sides are built. 

What kind of a local administration would knowingly allow development plans such as these to be approved which clearly disadvantage many thousands to the advantage of so few?

The closure of Keira Street to speed up the GPT job was the thin end of the wedge, and now we see the long-standing small businesses in that area suffering even more. 

Let’s get some sanity into the planning process.

If you or I were to put such plans forward we would be told to make sure that all building activities took place within the site. 

Lester Hamilton, Wollongong

 Gareth Ward’s claims about a ‘‘deal’’ between the Greens and Labor in the seat of Kiama highlight  the continuing denial by the Liberals of the process by which preference suggestions are determined by the autonomous local groups which make up the Greens NSW.

 Every local Greens group in NSW is responsible for its own preference suggestions for the electorate of which it is part. I was responsible for running the ballot of Greens members in the seat of Kiama as to what approach we would take.

 In a nearly unanimous decision, the members voted to number all squares and place Labor before Liberal. This ran counter to a long history of not supporting Labor or Liberal in state elections and not suggesting any particular order of support with possibly one recent exception.

 In the lead-up to our decision, we did not have meetings about preferences with either the Labor or Liberal candidate and Mr Ward just has to realise that his ‘‘mongrel hypocrisy’’ was a fantasy and that the nearly unanimous opinion of Greens members in the seat of Kiama is that Labor has a better set of policies than the Coalition.

  The reality of the so-called deal was a decision made by Greens and Labor state bodies to recognise each other in upper house preference suggestions. Kiama Greens were not part of that decision. After all that, voters have to remember that preferences are their own decision and we only make suggestions.

 Howard R. Jones (convener of Kiama Greens), Kiama

 You don’t have to go to the National Park, Picton or Appin roads to see illegal dumping, just go to Wollongong Hospital.

 From the Crown Street entrance to the 7/11, the  hospital grounds and streets are littered with cigarette butts, plastic bottles, drink cans and general rubbish.

There is chewing gum stuck to the floors in the hospital foyer and butts in the elevator door tracks that have  been there for at least three weeks. It does not look good for the hospital or the city. Come on Wollongong Hospital and council, please get this mess cleaned up.

 Rick Supple, Austinmer

 Upon reading the list of  Illawarra state election candidates, I noticed that none of the Christian Democrats  and none of the No Land Tax Party’s  candidates live in their electorates.

 I hope the people of the Illawarra show their support for local members. Oh! I just noticed that Noreen Hay has an asterisk after her name too!

William Bielefeldt, Kembla Grange