Our goal is to landscape the easement on Ewingsdale Road near the cycle bridge to improve aesthetics, runoff quality and reduce the potential for week infestation. We will meet at the Cavanbah Centre carpark, sign on at either 9 or 10am.
BYRON BAY’S Butler Street Community Network (BSCN) has launched a Land and Environment Court challenge to the Byron Bay CBD bypass.
The Butler Street bypass was approved by the Joint Regional Planning Panel (JRPP) on 22nd June this year.
DOES DEPUTY Mayor Paul Spooner have a love affair with affordable housing?
This was the unusual claim made by a Byron Shire Greens councillor during a radio interview last Friday.
Cr Duncan Dey made the claim while being interviewed about a Byron Shire Council affordable housing approval that was supported by Cr. Spooner.
SINGER-SONGWRITER Bernard Fanning has joined other Australian celebrities in moving to Byron, giving him more to think about recently than this week’s release of his third solo album “Civil Dusk”.
The frontman of former rock band Powderfinger and his wife Andrea Moreno have also been settling into their new $2,465,000 Byron Bay home.
EVER FELT a desperate need for some KFC, but you can’t get your hands on some, because the franchise is totally locked out of Byron?
AUSTRALIA’S SUMMER music calendar is heating up with Falls Festival teasing their 2016-17 line-up with the revelation rapper Childish Gambino will see in New Year’s at their event.
Known as Donald Glover on his passport, the actor and popular musician was the only name organisers are prepared to announce ahead of their official line-up roll call on August 23.
BYRON BAY has the second highest number of rough sleepers in NSW, behind inner-city Sydney.
Over the last decade, Byron Shire has found itself reliant on tourism and the economic benefits that come with it.
But there are pitfalls, too. House prices rival that of Sydney, Paris, and New York City. Rental prices are going up.
BYRON BAY-based photographer and documentary filmmaker Evan Malcolm has had his short environmental documentary film ‘Lapse of Reason’ announced as a finalist in the documentary/social commentary category at the International Timelapse Festival in California.
The Timelapse Film Festival in California is the premiere event for the timelapse community, worldwide.
NEW SOUTH Wales Minister for Planning, Hon Rob Stokes, will be petitioned by the Byron Greens to send Byron Shire’s draft Coastal Zone Management Plan for the Byron Bay Embayment (CZMPBBE) back to Council for revision.
The draft Plan proposes hard works to resolve the conflict perceived between natural coastal processes and real estate boundaries at Belongil Beach.
BYRON WRITERS Festival will not only boast a lineup of more than 150 brilliant writers and thinkers, it will help change perceptions and challenge stereotypes about growing older in Australia.
Backed by major sponsor, Feros Care, the Byron Bay Writers Festival is renowned for its stimulating lineup and this year’s program is no different, asking the provocative question, “What Sort of Old Do You Want to Be?”
