A BYRON Shire Council staff presentation to last year’s NSW coastal conference has put forward a supporting argument for planned retreat at Belongil, claiming that it is a legitimate position that the council can defend in court.
And while council’s media spokesperson says that the presentation does not present a position on ‘planned retreat’, it’s a stance deeply at odds with the majority five councillors.
SPLENDOUR PUNTERS breathed a heavy sigh of relief on Wednesday when the four-day weather forecast revealed mainly dry conditions for Byron Bay this weekend, where the annual music and arts festival takes place.
This year’s lineup is particularly epic with The Strokes and The Avalanches playing an exclusive gig, as well as James Blake, Courtney Barnett, Flume and many, many more.
SIX MONTHS after opening, the fifty-acre Elements of Byron resort in Byron Bay is wowing visitors with its “leisure by design” approach to place-making.
Occupying arguably Byron’s most enviable land parcel with almost two kilometres of absolute beach frontage, thirteen acres of critically endangered littoral rainforest, tea tree creek, lake and ponds, it’s not difficult to understand how the site became subject to two previous very public battles for development.
THE NORTHERN Hotel Byron Bay Rams turned up the heat in their run to the finals with a convincing win over Casino Cobras at the Rec Grounds on Sunday.
The Reserve Rams annihilated their visiting challengers with another double-figures result (their third this season) taking their goal tally to 77 for the year.
BAY BOY Michael Polak has been selected for the FCO Pro Bono Lawyers Panel which was set up to help promote and protect the human rights of British nationals detained…
BYRON SHIRE Mayor, Simon Richardson today announced that the Byron Bay Town Centre Masterplan won the AILA National Landscape Architecture Award for Excellence in the Communities category."The Communities category was…
EMERGENCY services have responded to reports of a person in cardiac arrest in Byron Bay.A spokesperson for NSW Ambulance said they received a call just after 9am to the intersection…
LIKE all Aussies, locals on the Northern Rivers are partial to dropping a few nicknames.From Lis-moron to Bangaloid; from The Bay to The Bruns, they prove we're a funny bunch.A…
An active compound in marijuana called tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) has been found to promote the removal of toxic clumps of amyloid beta protein in the brain, which are thought to kickstart…
LAST SUNDAY we chickened out. Not from the swim, but back on the deck after it.The Void cooked up some chooks (does anyone remember when we started calling them chickens…