Maddison from Best and Less went above and beyond to help him out and it is not just what she fixed for him to get the things. It is the compassion shown for a person in need.

Thank-you Maddison at Best and Less. Hope your managers appreciate the amount of pride you take in your duties.

Indeed Judith, why? Why? Why? (SCR Wed, Sept 1 2020.) When residents and workers have already rejected that horror at the hospital, same as the Wollongong CBD. Once they start charging for parking, that is the end.

The most inefficient use of streetscape is parallel parking.

Angle parking can double the number of spaces at a fraction of the cost. It is convenient and popular; look at Kiama.

In contrast, free parking is accessible everywhere; today, shoppers and workers are savvy, mobile, and want convenience; they will not pay!

They will avoid streets clogged with chaotic traffic, and so will the entrepreneur!

Because of the argy-bargy, Shoalhaven council have become pre-occupied, inward-looking.

The older ones are only concerned about themselves, want to prove a point and will not listen to the community.

They are pushing ancient barrows; they paid dearly for schemes consultants thought up years ago.

Like this multi-storied car park, developing on the bottomless Worrigee swamp and insisting on re-building the hospital served by a few narrow, congested, residential streets, on a site selected in the days of horse and cart, 1919, over 100 years ago.

This election will decide Nowra CBD's future; we need fresh faces, outward-lookers with quick reactions. We must match this rapidly changing world and pay our COVID debt!

After reading the SCR I feel obliged to comment further on the Ramsay Private Hospital.

My comments do not relate to the large sums of money spent on necessary internal works but only to the external issue with traffic flow.

Any person using McKay Street and adjacent streets will be aware of the lines of cars which border McKay Street.

There is a small on site parking facility at the hospital but my concern is the external parking which makes it difficult for vehicles to drive up and down the hill unimpeded.

This can be overcome by the development on a car park adjoining the hospital on land along Mackenzie Street which is unlikely to ever support homes due to the noise from the hospital air-conditioning system and these would be ideal for a car park extension.

Why this has not been done is a mystery, particularly with the recently announced large sums of money used within the hospital.

I am also surprised it was not been made as a condition of construction as it would rid the main street of excessive parking and allow vehicles to pass each other without being required to duck and weave around parked vehicles.

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