TWENTY-FOUR years of decking their home with a unique display of lights every Christmas will come to an end when Terry and Gerry Bertoli turn off their lights on New Year’s Day 2018.
Thousands of Bay locals and visitors have made the trip to the Bertoli’s Baywood Chase home to view the fruits of the Byron Bay couple’s labour.
A SLICE of the closed North Coast rail corridor has been purchased by a developer planning to build a 19-unit luxury apartment complex in Shirley St, Byron Bay.
Transport for NSW agreed to sell the land in February to the developer, Wollongbar Properties, for $465,000 plus legal costs and GST.
BYRON SHIRE Council will work with local sporting groups and other traditional users of the Byron Bay Recreation (Rec) Ground to develop a Plan of Management for the land on the fringe of the town centre.
Byron Shire Mayor, Simon Richardson, said Councillors and staff had recently met with sporting groups to discuss the future management of the Rec Ground, and it was clear that they wanted sport to be the number one priority.
DELIVERING SOCIAL and community benefits will be at the top of Council’s agenda in early 2018 when it seeks partnership proposals for the master planning and redevelopment of the former South Byron Sewerage Treatment Plant site in Suffolk Park.
Byron Shire Council Mayor Simon Richardson said Council was piloting a new partnership approach and looking for innovative and visionary thinking from the market.
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.
CAPRICORN IS the sign of Saturn’s rulership. It will reside in that sign for the next 3 years, [minus a brief forward foray into Aquarius from March to July 2020].
And further, the Sun, shortly after it enters Capricorn at the Solstice on Friday Dec 22 AEDT will join with Saturn to set the seal on the birth of a new era where Saturn reigns supreme.
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.