JOIN US at 10am on 29 April at the roundabout below One Tanjung

Dear TBRA members,

 
JOIN US on 29 April, 10 am, Saturday morning, at the roundabout below One Tanjung

Remember the “Sore Thumb”, that illegally reclaimed piece of land pointing towards Pulau Tikus?  TBRA has been insisting that it become a public park since 2010. 

https://maps.app.goo.gl/ot2G6j2Moop9aaK3A

That’s 13 years ago.  In mid-2018, in a surprise move, Lim Guan Eng, then Chief Minister, took his whole cabinet down to the Thumb and promised Tanjong Bunga a Pocket Park by December 2018.  The entire speech was videotaped and survived the election.  The Park never came.  New local elections are coming up. Will we get another such promise?
 
We are calling the press to let all of Malaysia know that we are tired of waiting. 

Joining TBRA are hundreds of inhabitants of the Cove, One Tanjong and Sri Golden Bay.  They are worried about recent plans to allow more building on the seaside. We will protest all together on Saturday morning.

The company that built One Tanjong, variously called Lone Pine or Province Valley, called itself the registered proprietor of Lot 4658. 

That Lot, just at the beginning of the Sore Thumb, is actually leased from the State. Recently, that company applied for permission to erect a 5 storey building on that Lot.  

The ugly looking building was called a Wellness Centre but it appears more like a hotel.  Such a concrete centre is the last thing we want at the beginning of the park for Tanjong Bunga, a necessary green space with public access to the beach.

To obtain the permit to erect that “Wellness Centre”, the company offered to build the Park and showed us images of their idea of a park: it looks like a short garden with wide cemented paths, more like an extension of the Centre for wheelchair patients, not a wooded public park, for walking, jogging, biking and fishing. 

The Sore Thumb is public land and must not be privatized. It is for the State to build and maintain the Park.

For the State to approve the so-called Wellness Centre in exchange for building a small park is not what we want. There must be green space for all and wide access to the beach as well. 

On Saturday 29 April there will be posters with more info.

Drive or walk down Tingkat Laut – easy parking. Event is at the roundabout 10 am Please come and make your voice heard.