Hopefully his message can cut across, because we've an albatross around our necks.

Let me say that for 50 years I have been part of countless performing arts presentations in Goulburn (and many other centres) where, under Dr Paul Paviour, we have choirs of up to 50 orchestras of 35 and soloists, performing some of the globe's premium works to audiences up to 600 or more.

If my reading of the plans of this Goulburn PAC are correct, the true magnificence of such presentations, which one would have to agree tick all the boxes of what such a centre should be able to handle, will be left seriously wanting.

To assemble such a body of performers would, for a start, overwhelm the limited audience.

Then there is the cost. The Lilac Hall, which seated at least double what is proposed now, was abandoned because it could not pay its way and its value was less than a million dollars.

This proposed centre, now costed at $18.5 million, will need to charge at least Sydney Opera House prices to realise a return on the 'investment', which will be way outside the budgets of most promoters due to the small number of seats, and ... smaller eisteddfod hirers, and of course, those attending.

In closing, can I appeal to the promoters of this scheme to present the public with a properly costed profit and loss account, one not based on dreams, egos or wishful thinking, and articulate exactly how often it might be used, by whom and at what cost to hirers and attendees.

For a fraction of the cost, why not buy the Coles Distribution Centre that will soon be closing, fit some of it out as a 1000-seat concert hall, equip it with meal facilities and rent the rest out as a business park/office complex. That would solve the current parking issue too.