The council engineers have raised an interesting point when they said the Sound Shell Roof was passed its use-by date.
I then wondered about the steel pilings used to allow the developers to cram more blocks of land for housing onto the development by the golf course on Correla Road.
What will be the use-by date for those piles holding back tonnes of soil on that estate.
More importantly who will decide the use-by date, and who will pay for the work that will need to be done to replace them.
I know it will not be the developer who maybe bankrupt when that happens, they have made and spent their profits.
It will not be the real estate people who sold the blocks, they have made their profits from the sale of the huge number of blocks on that estate.
That leave the council who have been raking in all those extra rates after allowing the developer to create so many tiny blocks for people to build their homes on.
The council engineers do not have a very good track record regarding declaring buildings uninhabitable, or walkways unsafe to use plus other projects they have started and we are still waiting for some sort of movement to give the impression something is happening.
We feel confident the soundshell will be completed but at what cost.
The erection and dismantling of the scaffold will probably take more than twice the time to do the job.
Once again the poor old ratepayer will be stuck with the bill.
We could save a lot of rate money if the engineering section was abandoned and council put the odd job out for tender.
This will be no different to all the other jobs council does.
Just a thought.
Leon Pethick,
Gympie.
