Paul Bibby
A precious slice of bushland adjoining Mullumbimby’s Tallowood housing estate would be put in public hands under a motion to be voted on at next week’s Byron Council meeting.
A group of ecologically-minded residents living in and around the estate have long called for the Tallowood Ridge Reserve to be taken over by the Council to ensure the old growth trees and their many native inhabitants are protected.
The move would also guarantee local access to the area, rather than the current plan, that risks seeing them being locked out.
In a notice of motion contained in the agenda to the December 17 meeting, Greens Councillor Sarah Ndiaye has proposed that Council formally become custodians of the five-acre site.
Hi Dailen,
Yes we do need to be aware of climate change and sea level rises. Well done in buying a property that will be fine for 100 years. Now you just need to find a way to live that long!
For the rest of us who actually live and work (here and now in 2020) in Byron Bay itself, we have more immediate coastal erosion issues that we need Council and State Government to solve now – using experts, science and engineering, as has been successfully implemented in many other places around the world where humans built a town or city close to nature. Noosa and the Gold solved these short term erosion issues while protecting beaches long ago. Why can’t we?