Your views: on flooding and more
Today, readers comment on rising river reporting and heritage.
Commenting on the story: Rising River Murray threatens to close Riverland roads, ferries
Perhaps instead of fear mongering, the article could have taken the opportunity to reiterate that, despite some inconveniences, the Riverland is still very much open for business and the opportunity now exists to see floodplains full of wild life that has not been experienced for years.
The community is having a hard enough time without driving potential tourists away with this kind of thing. – Adam Barich
Commenting on the story: Heritage is about our future as much as our past
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Once the Thebarton Police Barracks are demolished they will be lost forever. What value does this show we have for heritage, let alone the significant precedent value this presents next time we choose to demolish heritage or take up more public parkland?
I still don’t understand why the buildings can’t be moved and thereby saved? Just like the old gate house moved and saved from the widening of the Fullarton and Cross roads intersection. A small extra price to pay for saving heritage by the proponents of the new W&C hospital? – Ron Shanks
It is reassuring to read a serious and imaginative assessment of the value of heritage to the future by Stephanie Johnston in InReview.
Go-ahead Singapore stopped its ‘development at all costs’ policy of removing reminders of its past and reversed into a strict heritage policy years ago, recognising heritage as a vital asset. We need to revitalise more worldly thinking here.
We have many assets and heritage is one of them. We understood that decades back and legislated accordingly. Heritage protection ensures rare and historically significant evidence of place, human experience, enterprise and effort is not lost. Many cities in the world make creative and lucrative use of that unique evidence to benefit their tourist economies, citizen well being, arts and culture, student learning, and pride of place. They are future facing, not backward. – Elizabeth Ho
