The Mercury today ( 29 October 2007 )

Vetch's Pier area will be lost to our children
October 29, 2007 Edition 1
The controversial proposed development of Vetch's Pier should be given continued prominence.
As a life member of the Point Yacht Club, I was involved in developing the club's beachsite at Vetch's Pier and enjoyed my sailing days off that beach, but the way things are going, no future generations will have the same pleasure.
Big money and the apparent complicity of the municipality are determined to make this so.
It is the intention to develop a small-craft marina at Vetch's Pier. Having been associated with the present well-protected yacht marina in the Bay from inception and observed the wear and tear, and occasional storm damage, I consider a marina in the more turbulent Vetch's Pier area is condemned to failure.
Heavy swells would rapidly create maintenance problems, not to mention storm damage.
Who is to bear the cost of maintaining this marina for the wealthy few?
No doubt the ratepayers would be expected to pick up the tab and by so doing, subsidise the property developers and owners who wish to deny the public the free use of Vetch's.
Ken Leigh
Kloof