BYRON SHIRE Council candidate Ian Cohen has an easy way to solve the Shire’s high rise building issues.
Mr Cohen says that if a majority of Councillors adhere to Council’s Local Environment plan (LEP), questions about high rise variations can never arise.
BYRON SHIRE Council Greens candidate Ian Cohen is returning to the fray, standing for Council in the December 2021 local government elections, to help protect Byron Shire’s environment.
“I visited Byron Shire at every opportunity since the early 70s, making my home here in 1982,” Ian said this week.
THE NSW police watchdog will hold a public hearing next week to determine whether or not the officers who forcefully arrested a naked, 16-year-old youth in Byron earlier this year engaged in ‘serious misconduct’.
But some locals are questioning why the hearing is taking place in Sydney, which effectively prevents the community from seeing justice done.
A RECENT Echonetdaily Letter to the Editor has called for the return to ridings for Byron Shire.
Prior to ridings being dumped in the mid 1980s, Byron Shire was divided into five ridings and Wilf Sprengel of Ocean Shores says wards (ridings) should be returned to Byron Shire.
LOCAL GREENS parliamentarians have called on the NSW Government to ensure that any development in West Byron is of an appropriate scale.
A recent Echonetdaily article reports they want assurances that any development won’t adversely affect Ewingsdale Road, or negatively impact local wetlands or the Cape Byron Marine Park.
ICONIC SCARRABELOTTI’S Lookout on Coolamon Scenic Drive has been ‘reclaimed’ by community activists after Byron Shire Council placed a number of boulders at the site recently.
According to the council, the rocks had been placed there (in similar fashion to 7 Mile Beach Road earlier this year) to control ongoing illegal camping at the site.
THE BYRON Bay Community Association has welcomed a state government announcement that there will not be a bus transit centre built on the Butler Street Reserve.
BBCA general manager Paul Spooner has called on the Byron Shire Council to confirm its ongoing commitment to maintaining Butler Street as the site of the iconic markets.
ECHONET Daily’s Paul Bibby brings us landmark news from Byron Bay’s Beach Hotel. The pub is set to become the first licensed venue in the Shire to get rid of its pokies in a bid to reduce problem gambling.
In a move that anti-gambling advocates hope will inspire other local venues, the incoming owners of the hotel have pledged to start shutting down its 15 machines from the moment they officially take over on February 26.
NINE PEOPLE have been charged with drug offences following a drug dog operation in Byron Bay over the weekend
THE NORTH BYRON Parklands, near Byron Bay on the NSW North Coast, is home to two of Australia’s largest music festivals, which attract tens of thousands of music fans and, organisers say, millions of dollars to the region’s economy.
However, a $42 million proposal to create a permanent festival site for up to 50,000 people has raised concerns that the staging of events such as Splendour in the Grass and the Falls Festival harms the environment, creates traffic and transport problems and affects the amenity of locals.