As co-founders of the Omokoroa Tennis Courts, we spent five frustrating but challenging years trying to get WBOP Council approval to what we saw as an important addition to our community, particularly as we had quite a few older tennis players who loved tennis but needed to go out onto SH2 to participate.
Even though we had community support, with all our local businesses behind us, either writing letters of recommendation (doctors, retirement villages, and motor camps) or volunteering services and equipment (Goldsmith Arborists, Kewish Contractors bulldozing, Omokorroa Carriers carting soil), Councillors led by several individuals refused to listen and kept stalling again and again.

We made presentations to Council. We were so fortunate to have councillor Margaret Murray-Benge and then deputy community board chairman now Councillor John Palmer behind us. We truly believe that without their support we as members of the Omokoroa community would have lost the drive to gain what has been and will continue to be a major assert to our growing community.

Bob and J Sampson.