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DEVELOPERS OF a large shopping mall to be built at the southern end of Woolies carpark in Byron Bay’s CBD have been asked to go back to the drawing board over their traffic-management plans for their construction phase.
It highlights ‘one of the flaws in our planning system,’ deputy mayor Basil Cameron told The Echo, ‘where an approval can be given without full consideration of all impacts, such as in this case the safe movement of spoil.’
The train line behind the new Mercato development in Byron Bay has been covered over with road base by developers to use for parking and storage. Photo Mary Gardner
With completion planned for early next year, Mercato on Byron will be constructed by QLD-based Azzura corporation, who says it is aiming to be the ‘first regional shopping complex to achieve a five green star rating.’
But at a traffic committee meeting held October 14, Azzura representatives were asked for more details on their traffic-management plans.
One of Azzura’s proposals in its staged construction phase is 44 truck movements per day in the CBD for the month of February, 2017.
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