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Subscriber only Tweed Shire Council has adopted its plan of management for the Jack Evans Boat Harbour precinct to transform the area into a recreational and tourist centrepiece. The draft plan was placed on public exhibition until December 8, 2020 and was adopted by council at its February, 2021 meeting. Tweed Mayor Chris Cherry welcomed the plan s adoption and thanked residents for their input. Their contributions will make certain the priorities to enhance, protect and manage the precinct are delivered and that the plan meets the needs of the Tweed community now and into the future, Cr Cherry said. The plan ensures that the Jack Evans Boat Harbour precinct is recognised as a high quality, accessible regional facility for passive recreation.
Tweed Shire Council has adopted its plan of management for the Jack Evans Boat Harbour precinct to transform the area into a recreational and tourist centrepiece. The draft plan was placed on public exhibition until December 8, 2020 and was adopted by council at its February, 2021 meeting. Tweed Mayor Chris Cherry welcomed the plan s adoption and thanked residents for their input. Their contributions will make certain the priorities to enhance, protect and manage the precinct are delivered and that the plan meets the needs of the Tweed community now and into the future, Cr Cherry said. The plan ensures that the Jack Evans Boat Harbour precinct is recognised as a high quality, accessible regional facility for passive recreation.
Aerial view of Gales-Kingscliff holdings facing west, showing holdings immediately west of Tweed Coast Road. Photo www.galeskingscliff.com.au.
The debate over the movement of fill via the Tweed Coast Road and through Kingscliff to fill future development sites has been considered by residents, Tweed Shire Councillors, and staff at the last two planning meetings and a workshop in between.
Councillors Warren Polglase (Conservative) and Pryce Allsop (Conservative) have both been pushing hard for the development application DA20/0965 to allow free fill from the M1 roadworks to be trucked in to be used as fill by Gales Holdings. This would be used for filling land on and around Turnock Street and would replace the Land and Environment Court (L&EC) approval for bringing fill from their existing local quarry site. The DA seeks truck and dog movements every two minutes for six and a half days per week for a minimum of 28 weeks to bring in the fill.
Issues of queue jumping, the allocation of Tweed Shire Council’s resources in both time and money, and responding to the ‘squeaky wheel’ were all raised during the debate about disability beach access at Casuarina.
Cr Warren Polglase and Deputy Mayor Reece Byrnes brought a motion to provide public toilets at the Icon building, allocate $40,000 for two showers at beach access points six and eight and pursue a ‘viewing platform and disabled access at beach entry 6’.
Cr Polglase argued that the viewing platform and disability beach access were ‘visionary’. He said that with the Kings Forest development on its way that Council ‘need to provide the necessary [facilities for] all types of people including those with disabilities’.