Woy Woy oval white elephant

What has happened to the Woy Woy Oval cafe-coffee shop?

When the wonderful advantages of the new Woy Woy Oval precinct were being espoused, they included the fantastic cultural and financial benefits which would flow from the new cafe situated in the forecourt.

You will recall that this now extravagantly landscaped area used to be 50-plus much-needed car parking spaces.

The loss of this facility, we were told, would be vastly exceeded by the economic benefits which would flow from this new enterprise.

Well, the oval has been operating for six months and to-date there is no sign of the cafe opening.

If, as we were told, this business opportunity is such a goldmine for a hard-working entrepreneur, where is he or she?

Could it be that far from being an economical proposition, it is in fact a white elephant, and Council was conned into its construction?

Several million dollars have been wasted and parking is now almost impossible to find on some days of the week.

Some of this inappropriately-used funding should have been spent on the construction of a scoreboard and other missing facilities.

Email, 17 Aug 2016

Fred Charles, Woy Woy