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Originally Posted by mental4astro
Wouldn't it be best to ask The Pony Club what would be best for them first? As an Incorporated entity, their charter would be to encourage and include groups from the wider community to make use of their facilities.
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Quite frankly, I don't see what benefits the Pony club will gain from a agricultural school being built next door, apart from the odd late night party on their grounds. Maybe you didn't read the original post carefully enough? It was quite clear about it being next door.
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This includes us Astro nuts. However, they too need to seek ways of increasing their revenue. They may see they would stand more to gain from having a school next door to them.
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Maybe the students will bring their ponies with them and join up
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As people of science, why would you stand against a school being built? Just for our selfish recreation? We already drive in many cases several hours to all directions of the compass to get to dark skies - sadly on occasions we need to make way AGAIN to progress.
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Science and recreation? I have a RIGHT to protest to my selfish one night a month of sanity. If Gosford Council can dismiss a 10 000 plus petition to the closure of Gosford Primary School to cram it into the limited space of Henry Kendal High, then I doubt one lonely email from an amateur astronomer over the concerns of light pollution will even get read!
The school WILL be built...somewhere. So who's stopping what?
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As mentioned, there's two to five years before anything happens. Time enough to locate a new site.
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I did mention something like that.
Some of the local guys found a great location on council land that we are free to use but, we can't fix up the access at our own cost?
So if we all go out and buy four wheel drives we have a great location!
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No I haven't been to the Pony Club.
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Obviously
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I mainly go to Katooma Airfield as it is easier for me to get their (it's a four hour round trip for me too).
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Oh, something you know something about........
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The Airfield itself is teetering on closing due to local councillor personal interests, even though the many groups that use the Airfield, including National Parks & Wildlife, the RFS & the Army, even the Scouts, all add their voices in support of the of keeping the Airfield open. We can only support the Body if the change that is pending is detrimental to it.
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Sorry
Can't comment. Never been there.
Maybe you should start a thread........
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I may get roasted for my view,
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so be it. I don't want to see another dark site lost. Everyone with an interst in astronomy looses. And The Pony Club is one of the most popular too. But you can't go against building a new school just because it clashes with our fun. If the Pony Club is in favour of the school, what then too?
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Thanks for the lecture.......