A brief viewing of the development proposed for the Boatshed site has been enough for a sprinkling of Batemans Bay residents and visitors to declare it a dud.
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“That’s hideous,” Long Beach’s Viviene Petersen said.
“They need to have a rethink about what is in keeping with the coast. I’d be horrified to see it go ahead. I can’t believe that people would destroy the very thing they came here for.”
Ms Petersen’s view was a popular one.
“That is horrible,” Heather Cox, of Lilli Pilli, said.
“It looks like that rusty old building in Queanbeyan.”
Her husband Bob agreed.
“It doesn’t fit into what the coast is about,” he said.
“It’s a bit over the top,” Maureen and Gary Simpson, from the Shoalhaven, said.
“It would better at Port Stephens.”
Visitors Kay and Brian Fitzgerald, of Newcastle, and Tom and Becky George, of Utah, USA, agreed that it would be being built in the wrong place.
“It is out of character with the rest of the coast,” they said.
However, not all the responses were negative.
“It won’t stand out and is in keeping with everything else,” Craig Butler and Lisa Pascoe, from Ulladulla, said.
“As long as it continues to serve the general public.”
Some had mixed feelings about the proposal.
“It’s not bad, but they can’t change the town too much,” Clark Chatfield, formerly of Batemans Bay, now of Canberra, said.
