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Subscriber only Residents hoping to move into the new Kings Forest housing estate in the Tweed Shire face increased rates if an application to the Independent Pricing and Regulatory Tribunal is approved. Eight councils across NSW, including Tweed Shire Council, have applied to IPART for a special variation to increase their income from rates above the rate peg in 2021‑22. Tweed Shire Council has applied for an increase of 4.35 per cent over a single year, to be retained permanently in the rate base, indicating funds raised by the Special Rate Variation would be used solely for the ongoing management of environmental protection lands associated with the development - a condition of the development approval.
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Subscriber only The craft brewery planned for South Lismore has been granted a deferred commencement consent by Lismore City Council. The brewery was been subject to a feisty debate at Lismore City Council s meeting on Tuesday night (February 9) which saw allegations of bullying and intimidation levelled against Two Mates Brewing. One of the main residents against the development, Tristan Inglis, raised concerns about the DA application which he described as erratic and indecisive . It just seems be freestyling along and changing and adapting really erratically, incoherently without what I feel is a reasonable amount of due process from council, he said.