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Police move in on tree battle The controversial removal of a fig tree on Castle Hill Drive, Lennox Head, which locals say is more than 200 years old, is now proceeding after an attempt to file an injunction on Monday failed. The removal by Ballina Shire Council contractors is expected to take days owing its size. But locals resisted – including a 12-year-old girl who was escorted from the area by policemen. Resident John Sparks told The Echo Police are preventing anyone from getting past a fence, which is erected around the tree. The removal comes despite an interim heritage order request to the Office of Environment and Heritage (OEH).
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Going going… it’s expected this Fig in Lennox Head will be cut down by Ballina Council over the next few days. Photo Jeff ‘Trees Are Sorta Useful ‘N Stuff ’ Dawson
$38.5m Habitat DA approved by planning panel A large mixed commercial/ residential estate near Elements of Byron in the Arts and Industry Estate sailed through its approval process last Tuesday. As it was estimated to be more than $20m, the third stage of Habitat was determined by the Northern Joint Regional Planning Panel (JRPP) instead of locally
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elected councillors. The JRPP will also be determining the contentious West Byron development and a private hospital located near the Byron Central Hospital. Northern JRPP chair and former National Party MP Garry west told The Echo he was ‘comfortable’ with the height variation request as it was ‘minor.’
Council staff ’s assessment of the $38.5m proposal also supported the height variation request, owing to it adjoining vacant areas, ‘which will not be developed in the future, as they are subject to previously approved and partly implemented ecological enhancement projects.’ Staff said, ‘The contravention of this standard arises
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