As a small child, I used to walk with my grandmother from The Strand to the Tauranga Domain to enjoy this peaceful part of the city. Many Tauranga-born residents and members of multi-generational Tauranga families have a special attachment to a number of Tauranga sites that have historical, heritage and green values. So, I disagree with The Weekend Sun columnist Jim Bunny – and believe that people should be permitted to advocate for the protection of these sites without being denigrated, without being characterised as ‘nay-sayers' and without being labelled with the childish epithet of ‘Ngati whingers'.

Robin Rimmer, Welcome Bay.