Sydney farming family's land is being swiped by the government for Redbank project Daily Mail
A hardworking farming family have been left heartbroken after discovering their land will be acquired to make way for a new road.
The Wilcox family's 15 acre property at north Richmond, north-west Sydney, will be bulldozed, perhaps as early as December, to provide access to a new bridge that forms a vital part of the huge Redbank Communities project.
The NSW Government instructed the Wilcox family they would forcibly acquire the property for the road leading to the $23.8millon Grose Vale Bridge.
But just as important is its significance as an example of fertile land suitable for growing Sydney's food.
'Most of the land further west is unfarmable and the destruction of prime agricultural land with such close proximity to the Sydney population is a travesty.
'Once farmland is gone its gone, and this can lead to issues with food security as farming is one of the most important uses of land and there is limited fertile farmland in Sydney.' said Mrs Wilcox.
This is just my opinion.
