TWEED HEADS Harvey Norman Centre, Greenwaynway Ddriverive Phone:Phone: 5523 20520555 SALE ENDS: 15Th February 2009
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THE TWEED SHIRE Volume 1 #23 Thursday, February 12, 2009 Advertising and news enquiries: Phone: (02) 6672 2280 Fax: (02) 6672 4933 [email protected] pages 18 & 19 [email protected] www.tweedecho.com.au LOCAL & INDEPENDENT Another stoush Save me! at Hastings Point after somehow winning Tweed council approval to build a single dwelling on the site. WEH director, Scott Elliott, has denied the claim, saying he is simply building a holiday house which he and his family may use. Tweed Village Alliance president Julie Boyd says the area where the fill is being dumped was illegally filled by a former owner and was responsible for worsening flooding problems in a caravan park and homes in Creek Street. She said residents were unaware that council’s building staff had approved the house Ken Sapwell to preserve democracy but I until trucks began rumbling believe our democratic rights through their village last World War Two Bomber are being whittled away,’ he said week. Command survivor Vic Brill of the latest front in the ongoing ‘The first we knew anything (above) stood his ground when war to save the fragile Cudgera about this was when convoys a truck began nudging into a Creek from overdevelopment. of up to 62 trucks a day started group of fellow protestors at It involves a seven hectare bringing in huge amounts of Hastings Point. area on the northern side of the fill,’ she said. The 90-year-old former creek where developer, Walter ‘The council’s building unit navigator with the famous 463 Elliott Holdings (WEH), claims it was unaware of the Lancaster squadron, which wants to build a resort and 57 site’s contentious history when suffered the highest losses of houses. it gave approval, apparently any in RAF command, showed A development application without the full knowledge of time had not diminished the has been in the hands of the senior planning staff. bravery needed to fly the flak- NSW Planning Department ‘Strangely enough the filled skies over Germany. for nearly two years awaiting access road the developer is Mr Brill, who was finally a decision after the Minister creating is the same as that for pulled aside by others worried usurped planning controls the huge resort and housing about his safety, says he feels from the council because of the development now under he’s been pitched into a new sensitive nature of the site. consideration by the NSW war – one to save his peaceful But residents claim the Planning department.’ village lifestyle from developers developer is trying to start The residents won a minor apparently intent on trying to the proposed subdivision victory when council staff Jenny Hayes cuddles a cute koala at Currumbin Wildlife Sanctuary last week. Ms Hayes says beat tough new planning laws by stealth by trucking in ordered the developer to these iconic creatures are threatened by the planned 4,500-home Kings Forest subdivision before they’re implemented. thousands of tonnes of fill to remove most of the fill from the southwest of Kingscliff and she has embarked on a campaign to protect them. Photo Jeff Dawson ‘I spent four year fighting create an extensive access road continued on page 2 See full story, page 2. Number 1 For Your Car 240V HEAVY DUTY MONZA 2500 DRIVING LIGHT KIT ORCON 2000KG GARAGE JACK 10” POLISHER 12V 100W 160mm dia. with Lifting range from 150mm to 500mm. Gives your vehicle that protective lens covers. Complies with Australian standards professional shine without SKU PE02184 AS/NZS 2615-199 SKU TO06579 the hard work. Includes 2 polishing pads. 1200KG TROLLEY JACK SKU TO12095 Lifting range from 130mm to 325mm. 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DHI:DE6I=H But unlike Liberace – who IG:6IBDG:I=6CNDJI=>C@### started his career at the age of four – Jake has been playing s JOINT PAIN s SCIATICA s ARTHRITIS the piano for just 12 months s HEADACHES s SPORTING INJURIES s RSI and is completely self-taught. s BACK, NECK, SHOULDER, DIGESTIVE, POSTURAL, ‘I had a keyboard and just PREGNANCY AND RESPIRATORY RELATED ISSUES started to teach myself how to Tomas play that,’ he said. Piano nut Jake Durrington belts out a tune to the delight of his great grandmother Melva Rudi Leszczynski ‘But eventually it wasn’t good Hewish, mum Cheryl Durrington and grandma Pam Darby. Gerhardt M.Ost., B.App. enough – there weren’t enough B.Sc., D.O Sc.(Osteo), Dip. keys on it.’ He kicked it off with an ener- not boring, and play songs the memory. Jake said his lifetime Health Sc.(MT) Recognising his natural tal- getic rendition of ‘Chopsticks’, (residents) like,’ he said. dream was to play in New York Government Registered Osteopaths ent, mum and dad Paul and made all the more challenging Jake learned 10 new songs but he would settle for a schol- Members Australian Osteopathic Association Cheryl bought Jake a piano and for its dramatic rises and crash- for the performance – no mean arship to the Conservatorium OSTEOPATHS he has been practising three to ing falls. ‘I try to make it fun, feat since he plays solely from of Music. five hours every day since. s use gentle, non-invasive, effective, hands-on techniques Over the weekend Jake s treat babies, the elderly and serious athletes played his second gig at the re- s treat the whole body – not just the symptom tirement home where his great The koalas’ last stand s work with bones, muscles, joints and connective tissue grandmother Melva Hewish s give you 45-60 minutes consultation and treatment Luis Feliu tat loss and fragmentation from planning department spokes- time, incorporating massage lives. the 4,500-home subdivision as person said that several areas All four generations of his Tweed koala activist Jenny well as the dogs and vehicles of known koala habitat on the HICAPS EFTPOS ONSITE PARKING DVA REGISTERED family turned out to see him Hayes has known the fear of would spell disaster for not only Kings Forest site were zoned belt out a set list, including animals, having once been the koalas on the 1,100-hectare for environmental protection Boogie Woogie and Memory been chased up a tree in Africa site but other colonies which three years ago. from Cats, which Liberace by a black rhinoceros when use it as a corridor. Ms Hayes has worked ex- &%@>C<HIG::I!BJGL>AAJB76=++,',,.+ would have been proud of. working for Earthwatch, but ‘It’s not just that population tensively for Earthwatch and her fear for the future of the at Kings Forest, there’s only the BBC in Africa, researching shire’s diminishing koala colo- about 15 in there, but it’s quad- wildlife such as the rhinoceros. nies is much more immediate. ruple that number that move She said submissions should EVERYTHING’S IN PLACE The 43-year-old Ms Hayes, through this corridor, where be sent to Coastal Assessments, born and bred in the Tweed a major four-lane access road Department of Planning, GPO www.silverstoneliving.com.au Valley, has put her own money is to go.’ Box 39, Sydney 2001 or faxed into a personal advertising Ms Hayes, supported in her to 02 9228 6540 before noon campaign urging people to quest by Friends of the Koala, on February 16. The proposal stand up for the Tweed’s re- Northern Rivers, said ‘Dwell- can be viewed at www.major- Contemporary Tweed Heads maining few hundred koalas ings on this scale and koalas projects.planning.nsw.gov.au. apartments from $470,000* threatened to extinction by en- can’t live together… look at croaching development. Koala Beach near Pottsville, Hastings Pt stoush Her advertisements tell peo- they’ve had problems there, from page 1 ple the massive Kings Forest and at Chinderah, the bypass residential subdivision plan there wiped the koalas out. metre-high access road after now being considered by the ‘So to put a four-lane access agreeing that it would create state government is ‘a final road through this corridor is a dam-effect and a potential blow to Tweed Coast koalas’ putting the last nail in the cof- flood risk. and she wants people to voice fin of these koalas.’ Up to 300 residents who their objections by noon this She said koala populations gathered at the site on Monday, February 16. on the Tweed were contract- Friday voted to seek a court ‘It’s the koalas’ last stand’, she ing, with only around 200 injunction to stop construction, quadrant.com.au VWO 21579 told The Echo, saying the habi- known left, living in pockets. A bringing to four the number Unit 23 of legal challenges to various Fears raised over townships developments which they have initiated. Display apartment now open! Greens councillor Katie Milne suspects many Tweed residents Mr Elliott said he expected to Open Thursday – Monday, Proudly marketed by are unaware of the impacts the two proposed massive subdivi- win government approval for 1 0 a m -12 p m ( Q l d t i m e ) 11 a m -1 p m ( N S W t i m e ) sions of Kings Forest and Cobaki will have on the shire.