As a member of the BCCT, I received my renewal letter today from Michael Stove, President of the Beecroft Cheltenham Civic Trust who writes as follows:
"Please help us to help you present your thoughts & ideas before the various government and other respective authorities. Renew your memberships and look to your friends and neighbours to join up. We require those small individual amounts to assist us continue with our efforts on your behalf."
It's $10 per year for individual membership, $20 for family membership. Membership forms can be obtained on the BCCT website, http://www.2119.org.au/.
With so many major issues affecting our Beecroft and Cheltenham environment at the moment, I believe the BCCT needs to have very many more members than they now do in order to provide a more powerful lobby speaking on our behalf. Unfortunately the Trust's IT manager has been unwell, and the website has not been updated to reflect recent events, but I am assured this will be changing very soon.
If you want to see the importance of lobbying, see how the cycling community has captured the debate about the M2. If you Google "M2 Widening Project", BikeNorth comes up at top of page one, ahead of Government sites as well as any other community sites! As a result of their well organised, co-ordinated activity and sustained pressure, the M2 project is spending huge amounts on cycle ways, whereas no other state in Australia, or major developed country, allows cyclists on motorways.
If Beecroft and Cheltenham residents have concerns about the M2 project, or the 5-storey zoning of the Beecroft Shopping Centre, or any other issues, we should be providing a similarly co-ordinated voice representing our concerns. Join the BCCT, attend the AGM in March 2011, and let's get our trust galvanised.
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