A group distributing a flyer slamming plans to build a memorial to the victims of the Hillcrest Primary School tragedy in their backyard has stopped letterboxing due to what they've called threats to their safety.
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Six children died, and three others were injured, when a gust of wind lifted a jumping castle and zorb balls high into the air on the school oval in December 2021.
A permanent memorial to honour the children's lives has been proposed for Coles Beach at Devonport in north west Tasmania.
The flyer, which questions the proposed location of the memorial garden, has sparked outrage in a city still mourning their loss.
A Friends of Coles Beach spokesperson said the group was not against having a permanent memorial built.
"Our issue is the site selection," they said.
"Unfortunately, we are receiving abusive and threatening messages
"We feel that we may be targeted physically if we were identified, so we have decided to cease the flyer mail box drops and close this method of getting the information out to the broader community.
"This whole process of the memorial design and site selection should have been out in the public space, but it is being kept from the broader community."
The flyer acknowledged that anything to do with remembering the children killed in the school tragedy spiked public emotion.
"Clearly, this is a sensitive topic, but Friends of Coles Beach feel this is not the right location as it's a place for families to escape the hardships of life," it says.
"Not a place to be forced to be reminded of such a tragic event, which has no relevance to the local area, and give up environmental land that belongs to the whole community."
The land on which the memorial is planned to be built is currently a vacant lawn area and is Crown land.
Friends of Coles Beach has asked those who "feel the same way" to contact the Hillcrest Recovery Committee and the Devonport City Council to express their concerns.
Hillcrest Affected Area Recovery Committee chair Lauchland Avery said the garden concept - envisioned by Inspiring Places - was very conducive to the area.
Mr Avery said the families of the children who died and neighbours of the garden had been consulted as part of the planning process.
"It is ok to have an opinion, but it should come from an informed position." Mr Avery said.
"There has been a whole process around this.
"There were 13 sites originally considered, and Coles Beach was decided on after talking with the families.
"Before anyone lodges any objections to the memorial's approval, they should look at the plans."
A parent of one of the children killed in the tragedy was quick to respond when the flyer was posted on social media.
"What a privilege it must be to have never known a loss so deep that you mistake remembrance of our children as a disruption and place your own comfort above their memory," Zane Mellor's mother, Georgie Burt, posted.
Another Devonport resident said she was amazed at the entitlement of the residential group.
"They must be very entitled to their little plot of grass near Coles Beach, wanting to stop a memorial garden for those children lost at Hillcrest," she said.
"Perhaps if they got off their high horse and asked why it is proposed for there, they may have some insight."
Coles Beach was revealed as the site for the proposed permanent memorial in March when the Federal Budget was handed down, including a funding commitment of almost $1 million.
Many ideas had been considered, including a memory garden, park, water feature and others, before the interactive garden designs were put forward.
