CLEVER LANDSCAPE design, seating and lighting, connective pathways and new amenities are coming soon to Byron’s Railway Square following Council’s endorsement of the Railway Square Landscape Concept Plan at the December meeting.
“This is exciting news and means we can get on with a design-led solution for this currently under-utilised space,” Byron Council Mayor Simon Richardson said.
VOICE of BYRON regular, Lee Raphael Cass, shared a video and his thoughts on the train running from North Byron into Byron Bay and back.
On Tuesday, December 19, Lee said, “Jeremy Holmes from ‘Byron Train’ on Bay Fm just now said the ‘solar train was four years in the making,’ and how it was the first solar train in the world.
WORK ON the Byron Bay town bypass is set to start in early 2018.
Byron Shire Council’s Director Infrastructure Services, Phil Holloway, said staff will begin working with Roads and Maritime Services (RMS) early in the new year to finalise a construction timeline and plan for the relocation of services including water mains and telecommunications.
BYRON SHIRE Council has allocated $20,000 to look at ways to improve parking, traffic and illegal camping at Seven Mile Beach at Broken Head.
At the Council meeting this week Councillors also agreed to implement an action plan that has been developed with local residents, and agencies including NSW Police, Rural Fire Service and the National Parks and Wildlife Service to address a wide range of issues that are currently threatening the area.
OF THE 15,654 dwellings in the Byron Shire 2,655 properties were advertised on holiday platforms such as Airbnb in 2017.
With the NSW school holidays now underway things are starting to get busy and thousands of people are expected to spend their annual holidays in the Byron Shire.
Voice of Byron and KWIMABB regular, John E Wright, found this classic video of surfing in Byron Bay in the early 1960’s…
John says, “Some well known faces in this video – Phil Edwards, Frank Latta, Bob McTavish, Bobby Brown…
BYRON BAY residents and business people are ‘crapped off’ by an ‘invasion’ of vanpackers who they say have set up an unofficial campsite on railway land in the centre of the town.
They say the travellers are taking advantage of a Catch 22 that prevents Byron Council rangers taking action against them in the car park adjacent to the Rails Hotel.
Voice of Byron and KWIMABB regular, Natalie Moffitt, found three terrific old shots of Byron Bay from the reservoir at Byron Bay, so we made them into a mini slide show…
Natalie says, “These photos were taken from the water tank in the 70’s I believe.
Voice of Byron and KWIMABB regular, John E Wright, found this classic video of surfing in Byron Bay in the early 1960’s…
John says, “Some well known faces in this video – Phil Edwards, Frank Latta, Bob McTavish, Bobby Brown…
Voice of Byron and KWIMABB regular,Robyn Bannah, shared her Christmas recollections from life in the Bay, back in the day…
Robyn says, “Thinking of some of the things from the old days and it has just hit me…..Santa was always very very drunk!