Letters to The Review

Alison Atkinson writes ...

From reading the proposal from the sporting clubs as to why the oval should be widened, it appears that they are not predicting much change in the size of their sporting clubs or the number of teams. To widen the oval for the benefit of only a few teams is extremely expensive. Other ovals are only five mins away in Boya and Glen Forrest therefore it is a clear waste of tax payers money to be doing this.

The risk we as a community face if the oval is widened, is that in the future more teams each year of older children will be created and less and less time will be available on the oval for mixed community use. They may be saying there are only two

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more teams now, but there is no guarantee that they will not create many more teams in the future.

Darlington has a beautiful “small village” feeling and the oval and mixed use area in the heart of the community is currently for all to enjoy and mingle and meet and greet in. If large football gatherings and cricket gatherings with people from outside of the area are to be held often in the heart of our village with horns tooting etc, it will change the feel of our community. This is a very special small community feeling and should be preserved.

The more we all meet and greet and mingle on our mixed use community oval the better and the less lonely and isolated people will feel in our “village” of Darlington. I have benefited so much from being with friends on the oval each afternoon in my time of grief and loss. The thing that makes Darlington special is being able to go for a walk and knowing that you’ll bump into someone you know. I don’t want to go for a walk in my own town and be faced with many people from different sporting clubs from all over Perth and not see people that I know in my village any more. This would make Darlington a very different and less desirable place to live. Darlington is very unique in having this “small village” atmosphere and it needs to be preserved. Keep Darlington a small intimate friendly village.

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