Caltex Australia owns the site on the corner of McMillan Road and the Princes Highway where the Eurobodalla Shire Council and the Roads and Traffic Authority plan to build a roundabout if plans and funding are ever finalised and secured.

The Narooma Chamber of Commerce yesterday sent off a letter to Caltex demanding action within two weeks, while the Eurobodalla Shire Council also sent a letter of complaint to Caltex back in December.

A Caltex spokesperson this week said the company has not yet made a determination on the future of the site, but that “we will clean up the site in the near future.”

Further up the road on the Narooma flat, it was perhaps better news for the old smash repair property on the corner of Burrawang Street.

The owners have development approval for apartments on the site but say the global financial crises halted plans and made borrowing from the banks difficult, but with the economy improving the project could get underway later this year.

Whether it was the global financial crises that did in Wollongong construction firm Wideform, who knows?

But subcontractors working on the Seachange apartments just up the hill are still owed hundreds of thousands and don't hold out much hope from getting it back from Wideform administrators.

Frank Wensing, owner of Batemans Bay Plaster Linings, said he was owed $250,000 from work he performed prior to Wideform going bust, while other painting and window subcontractors were also owed huge sums by Wideform.

The good news was now that Seachange developer Geoff Kirby had been able to take over and recommence construction, Mr Wensing was back on the job able to use up the materials that had been stockpiled at the site to finish the job.