Chris Beverley who was centre manager for almost 27 years said she was saddened by the proposed move.

“I’ve had a number of meetings with council, including with Director of Corporate and Community Craig Milburn, to try and persuade them to change their mind, but to no avail,” she said.

“They [council] has made their decision and are pushing on ahead with it regardless.

“Nothing is going to change, absolutely nothing.”

She said she believes the move will be a “shamozzle”.

“We have had the visitors’ centre in two prominent sites in Bomaderry and Nowra for the past 40 years but I can see that disappearing,” she said.

“The whole appearance of the visitors’ centre will change. Will external advertising be allowed outside the entertainment area? Will it be allowed? Or won’t it fit in with the visual appearance of the entertainment centre?”

She asked at one meeting if anyone had actually been in a motorhome or van and had driven over the bridge into Bridge Road and into the new planned parking area at the City Administrative Centre but none had.

“Even their video production, shot from a drone showing how the parking would work, isn’t a true representation,” she said.

“You had two drivers from a local caravan company, who firstly knew where they were going, not like a lot of tourists or grey nomads who travel the country and could be coming to the area for the first time.

“They were not driven by a tourist trying to travel from north to south and also negotiate the Shoalhaven River bridge and then get into the council car park.

“My husband and I are grey nomads and we have a motorhome. There is no way we would get over that hump in front of the entertainment centre without dragging or scraping. And the trees overhanging Bridge Road would also pose a problem.

“I understand they are moving the centre to correspond with today’s world and the change in technology. Certainly things are changing.

“But I guarantee you we don’t use a lot of electronic technology or Google things. Same as a lot of travelling companions our age. When we arrive in town we go into the visitors’ centre, what we have been brought up with. We get all the latest information about what’s on while we are in town, where to eat, where to stay.

“They also usually offer generous parking facilities for vans or motorhomes. You can leave them and walk into the town.

“Visitor centres’ staff are always a wealth of information. And it’s often the little things you can’t get off Google.

“Certainly, I have been out of the industry for 15 years and things have changed. Sure it has all gone electronic but that doesn’t always mean things are better.

“After the meetings I had the feeling I had grown old and hadn’t kept abreast of the times. But that’s not right.

“I’m a tourist. I see it all the time.”

Council says with its traffic plans it will funnel traffic back into the CBD.

“It’s going to be great trying to drive or see these big motorhomes or caravans in and around the centre of Nowra,” she said.

“I want to see how the parking will work when there is a major show on at the entertainment centre as well.”

Mrs Beverley said their was no advantage to the move.

“As far as I can see they don’t have a buyer for the land,” she said.

“They’ve been trying to sell the location for years.

“So what’s going to happen? Is the building just going to sit there and become a target for vandals?

“I understood Graham Lodge has a heritage order on it, so what’s going to happen to that?”