THE TWEED SHIRE Volume 1 #1 Thursday, August 28, 2008 Advertising and news enquiries: Phone: (02) 6672 2280 Fax: (02) 6672 4933
[email protected] [email protected] www.tweedecho.com.au LOCAL & INDEPENDENT Farmers join New kids on push to rezone the block prime land Ken Sapwell ture zoning hit a major hurdle when the land was recently given the State’s A strong push is again underway to highest possible classifi cation. turn rich farming land at Cudgen into Their change of heart comes as an urban landscape – and for the fi rst property investors and land specula- time the plateau’s red-soil farmers are tors continue to risk huge stakes in lending their weight. a rezoning gamble, including a $4.5 Several families who’ve farmed the million Coles joint venture deal for a Tweed’s salad bowl for generations are Lynne Beck family property, with an among 26 landholders signing a peti- extra $5 million if it can be used for a tion calling on the council and NSW supermarket and town houses. Planning Minister Frank Sartor to Warren Polglase, who is seeking rezone the land for urban purposes. to regain the mayoral robes, says as a Th e petition asks Mr Sartor to ar- former wheat and rice grower he well range a meeting to discuss an urgent understood the farmers’ situation. review of Cudgen’s State Signifi cance He says their request is a ‘fair ask status, citing changes since 2005 which and worthy of serious consideration’ Spring has sprung throughout the Tweed, and with it comes new births, not least the Tweed Shire Echo’s.