Police Close in on Prime Cudgen Land
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THE TWEED Volume 2 #43 Thursday, July 8, 2010 Page Advertising and news enquiries: 10 Phone: (02) 6672 2280 [email protected] [email protected] www.tweedecho.com.au LOCAL & INDEPENDENT Police close in on prime Cudgen land Ken Sapwell exhibition until July 14, is expected to trigger a swag of objections from The NSW Police Force is seeking to community and environmental exploit a loophole in planning laws groups who have been involved in a to establish a new police station on long-running battle to save the red- protected farm land at Cudgen. soil plateau from development. The move is the first serious chal- It’s also being watched closely by lenge to the Cudgen plateau’s unique other emergency service agencies who agricultural status since the Anglican have been searching for a flood-free Church lost a court battle to build a site to consolidate their operations in school on another nearby parcel of a so-called super-centre close to the prime farming land about 12 years ago geographic centre of the shire. (see panel, page 2). Former long-serving Mayor Max Senior police say the station is an Boyd, who was part of a 10-man study Karen Oliver as Eliza Doolittle in her Ascot finery.Photo supplied emergency facility which can be built team which resulted in the govern- on the site without the consent of ment classifying the plateau as agri- Tweed council or the government if cultural land of State significance, says Karen’s Directed by respected Gold Coast erful voices on the Tweed Coast, they can convince them that no other he’s confident the government will show producer Tracey Kriz and co- this production is a nice piece of suitable sites are available. uphold its own planning policies. starring Peter Gray as the urbane, synergy. They are asking the council to go ‘The land is recognised as being in Eliza world-weary upper-class snob ‘This was the first full-length show against its Local Environment Plan the top 10 per cent of agricultural land Henry Higgins, the show features that I ever did. I was 13 and I really which prohibits subdivisions of less in Australia and has been given the a 36-member ensemble and some wanted to be Eliza. But I was too than 10ha to create a 1.5ha allotment highest possible level of protection,’ dream impressive costumes. young to be the lead so instead I was for a new Kingscliff headquarters at a he said. But for Ms Oliver, who has just the lady about town,’ she said of the cost of $4.5 million. finished a stint with Gold Coast Lit- Kingscliff High production back in A development application lodged Thin end of the wedge comes true tle Theatre in Showboat and Curtains the 1990s. by consultants acting for the force, ‘This new application if approved for Spotlight, it is a chance to finally ‘I always wanted to do the show Newton Denny Chapelle, says the will be the thin edge of the wedge for Tania Phillips get her vocal chords around those and it never came around.’ That is, site was chosen after four alterna- further urban development in an area classic Lerner and Loewe songs until now. tive sites were deemed unsatisfactory, which should be preserved for farm- As a young teen at Kingscliff High ‘Wouldn’t It Be Loverly?’, ‘The Rain The musical also reunites Ms Oliver mostly because none was as close to ing activities.’ School, Karen Oliver always dreamed In Spain’, and ‘I Could Have Danced with Tracey Kriz, who directed her the motorway. The land subject to the subdivision of playing Eliza Doolittle, but it’s only all Night.’ in her first major senior role at age 15 ‘The subdivision provides the mini- application belongs to the Kingscliff now the talented musical performer There’s also the thrill of speaking in the Gold Coast production of Stop mum area necessary for the construc- Land Company (KLC) which pur- will get her wish. Bernard Shaw’s scintillating dia- The World I Want to Get Off. tion and operation of the station… chased the 39ha site in a joint venture Ms Oliver will bring the wonderful logue, much of which was left in the My Fair Lady is on at Twin and provides sufficient land for the deal with Coles Myer for $4.5 million Eliza Doolittle to life in the Tweed show when it was adapted from his Towns, Tweed Heads, this Friday, continuation of the existing agricul- in 2004 but has since been unsuccess- Theatre Company’s new production classic play Pygmalion. Saturday and Sunday. Tickets are $25 tural land use of the newly created ful in two attempts to rezone the land of My Fair Lady at Twin Towns this And for the talented blue-eyed ($20 concession) and can be booked adjoining lot,’ the consultants say. for houses and a retail centre. weekend. blonde with one of the most pow- on 1800 014 014. The application, which is on public continued on page 2 ABN 82 087 650 682 <echowebsection=Local News> Local News Indy veteran back on the scene Tania Phillips Growing up in Murwillum- bah and playing drums with the cadets a young Michael Charles could never have im- agined where his skills would take him. Michael, who played in well known bands such as The Lip- stick Killers and The Screaming Tribesmen, was a mainstay on TTHH the Murwillumbah and Tweed AARRTTIISSTTSS!! 7 AANNNNUUAALL EEXXHHIIBBIITTIIOONN Valley pub scene throughout & CCOOMMPPEETTIITTIIOONN 22772299 AAUUGGUUSSTT the 70s, although these days 6 CATEGORIES: Over $4000 in prizes he’s better known as a graphic ENTRIES CLOSE ENTER ONLINE: ww.osartexpo.com designer. 6 AUGUST ENQUIRIES: [email protected] However, the former garage- indy rocker is back behind the drums again with his new band band before discovering rock ting together a band,’ he said. t Accredited high quality care in a Fashion Zombies. music and forming the band The next decade saw Michael Northern Rivers home environment The band, formed with Tony Dharana, which gigged exten- perform in a variety of bands Family Day Care t Supported by the largest scheme Young, younger brother of leg- sively in the Tweed and Lis- in what was one of the most in NSW endary Bullamakanka member more area. exciting periods in Australian the late Ray Young, partly takes Music even followed him to indy music history. Even when t Flexible hours its name from an ABC chil- Wagga Wagga despite studying working outside the industry, t Childcare benefi t available dren’s show. business, but it was when he music was never too far away ‘What we want to do is high came back from the Riverina from his life and now he is t Become a carer and work from home energy rock, fairly intense and that his life really changed. back behind the drum kit – high energy,’ said Michael. ‘I got a phonecall from and loving it. t Free training & fi nancial support Michael actually started Kings cliff boy Jeremy Oxley – The Fashion Zombies play provided playing bass as a kid in Mur- he and his brother Peter (the their next gig on August 8 at willumbah but soon switched basis for the successful 80s the Southern Cross Tavern, to drums with the local cadets band the Sunnyboys) were put- near the airport at Bilinga. (from page 1) TWEED 4 Park Street Tweed Heads Police close in on prime Cudgen land Phone 07 5536 1865 The first bid came unstuck the crossroads of the shire. The purchase attracted na- LISMORE 150 Laurel Avenue Lismore when the council was sacked He said he did not believe tional media attention when Phone 02 6621 6437 Serving the Community since 1980 in disgrace in 2005 and the sec- KLC’s holding warranted its mortgage documents revealed ‘A division of Northern Rivers Childcare Services Inc.’ ond failed in a narrow 4-3 vote state significance classifica- KLC entered into a conditional in May last year. tion. arrangement with then sitting KLC director, former Tweed ‘The property has been sand- councillor Lynne Beck and her National Party MP Don Beck, mined and quarried and has two sisters, to pay an extra $5 Future proof your solar said the site was an ideal loca- only a few knobs of red soil,’ million if the land was rezoned investment by opting for a tion, being flood-free and at he said. before November last year. Solar Expandable System. 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The rich red farming soil government to give the farms a $70,000 kitty, including a of the Cudgen plateau has the highest possible level of $20,000 contribution from his long been a prime target of protection and to set up the own company, a subsequent developers and a rich source first of two inquiries which re- inquiry found. of political intrigue and skul- sulted in the council’s sacking It was used to fund the PLUS PRO duggery. several years later. 1999 election campaign of 24 The farms dotting the Events unfolded after the so-called Independent can- A 1.5kW system A 1.5kW system elevated site just to the west church failed in a court appeal didates grouped to maximise wwith a 3kW inverter. with a 5kW inverter. of Kingscliff boast sweeping against council’s refusal to their chances under the voting OfferingOf future-flex Offering future-flex ocean and mountain views allow it to build a school on system and to launch an anti- up to 3kW output.