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Could paid parking be on the cards for Lennox Head?
Yesterday’s Ballina Shire Council meeting saw councillors raise the spectre of paid parking at Lennox Head, and possibly elsewhere in the shire.
During a discussion about fees and charges, Cr Nathan Willis began musing on the lack of prospective earnings for the future, despite all the extra ratepayers flooding into Ballina and surrounds. Was it time to consider a report looking at the possibility pay parking in Lennox Head, he wondered?
After a few nervous moments, Cr Eoin Johnston said he would second this. ‘Very brave!’ responded Mayor David Wright.
Michael McFarlane from Huskee outside Seed and Husk in Lennox Head. Photo David Lowe.
An exciting initiative to keep coffee cups out of landfill launched in Lennox Head yesterday. Ballina Shire Council is backing the HuskeeSwap program with free coffees at different cafes in Lennox this week, for coffeeholics keen to try a new solution to a growing problem.
Ballina’s Waste Education Officer Samala Heart told
The Echo, ‘Today kickstarts our HuskeeSwap launch week. Council is paying for free coffee for the first fifty coffees for each cafe which is participating in the HuskeeSwap program.
‘We have five cafes on board so far, and what that means is people can either purchase or use their existing Huskee cup, and continue to swap it at any of the participating cafes,’ she said.
The beach pavilion in earlier days. Photo supplied.
The meeting began with a deputation from Brad Pollard of the Lennox Chamber of Commerce, who argued for the demolition of the pavilion. He said 83% of local businesses wanted it removed, and questioned why more time and money should be spent revisiting the issue.
‘Keeping the shed is losing the vision,’ he said.
Robyn Hargrave from the Lennox Head Heritage Committee spoke passionately in favour of retaining the building, which she said was one of a handful of structures remaining from Lennox’s early era.
She said the Lennox Village Vision concept for the area would remove views from the street to the beach, not open them up, and the existing building provided all-weather shelter in the exposed park for families, children and people waiting for buses.