Jo Faith, Newtown
I was gobsmacked when I read that the ‘Greens’ mayor’s parting gift was to aid privatisation of land at the Belongil Spit. Indeed, it was hard to digest the fact that Greens councillors will support this by sending a letter to the State Government requesting rezoning of the Belongil Spit’s LEP.
I ask – have they visited the land with environmental concerns in mind?
The existing golf course will potentially see the development of houses that have ‘green labels’ – a form of green legal puff that upholds an Environmental Living Zone. The latter is land with special environmental or scenic values, where residential development can be accommodated. This land is on the Elements Estate. The area where, over the last thirty two years, the community have fought the No Club Med campaign and the Becton proposals.
Ballina Councillor and Chair of Rous County Council, Keith Williams, says he is setting the record straight about the pro dam campaign that claims it will lower costs and prices for water if the proposed dam at Dunoon and The Channon goes ahead.
John Lazarus, Byron Bay
An update on proposed development of the Belongil Spit site, for the information particularly of those that were involved in the successful Club Med battle, and the subsequent community campaign, which drove down the same site’s Becton proposal to 140 tourist cabins with compensatory planting up on the golf course with Becton’s alleged one million trees.