Mucked up mall

LOOKING at the new design for the Brisbane Street mall one does wonder where the designers have popped up from. It looks worse than what is there already and by the sounds of it there are no trees, no seating for patrons of coffee shops or eateries and the roof looks like rusty corrugated iron that can’t make up its mind to take off or stay put.

Hotels failing

AIRBNB succeeds in the short-term accommodation market because the traditional hotel/motel market fails on price and service. To blame Airbnb providers for the accommodation crisis is a failure to recognise the disparity that exists in the short-term accommodation space. As more hotels/motels are created because of increased demand, if these providers lift their game regarding price and service, the demand for Airbnb will fall, returning these homes to the residential space. It is a short-term problem that does not need regulation. It needs hotels/motels to lift their performance and reduce their prices. timated. Traffic in South Hobart has increased drastically over the past five years. There is currently a busy business area, a couple of industrial sites, the brewery and gardens, a nursing home, a large Assisted Living Community (Vaucluse Gardens), a hospital, two primary schools and a couple of church communities. There are also a couple of residential developments happening. The last thing South Hobart needs is a steady stream of traffic (up to 1000 cars more per day) and a multi-storey carpark to handle parking. This traffic in reverse would feed into the top of Macquarie St and the bottom of the Southern Outlet. This is already a congested area. The cable car is not just about the aesthetics of the mountain. It will affect the entire southern area of transport.

Priceless

DEFINITION of dumb — destroying the wilderness in our national parks to build accommodation for tourists who come to experience the wilderness in our national parks. Will Hodgman, your proposed new planning laws are short-sighted and wrong. Tell me Will, do you not believe or understand national parks are areas set aside specifically for the protection of the natural environment. Do you not understand that it is the natural unspoilt beauty of our national parks that attracts people from all around the world? Can you not see that as our world becomes a more crowded, overpopulated and polluted, Tasmania’s unspoilt national parks will only become more and more priceless?