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THE TWEED SHIRE Volume 2 #13 Thursday, November 26, 2009 Advertising and news enquiries: Phone: (02) 6672 2280 A special magazine Fax: (02) 6672 4933 [email protected] home delivered with [email protected] this week’s Echo www.tweedecho.com.au LOCAL & INDEPENDENT Rally future Big sports complex under cloud gets the tick Luis Feliu The future of the controversial world rally in Tweed and Kyogle shires is in doubt following the shock axing of Rally Australia’s general manager and his Murwillum- bah-based team. The rally’s governing body CAMS (Confederation of Australian Motorsport) has decided not to renew the con- tracts of key players in the running of the event – general manager Gary Upson, operations manager Bob Newman and event support co-ordinator, Sam Pearce – who were all based in Murwillumbah in a Tweed Shire Council of- fice before and during the event in September. This follows the resignation days earlier of Rally Aus- tralia organising committee chairman Garry Connelly, who had overall responsibility for the event. The report by rally journalists forced CAMS last week to deny the trio were sacked, claiming instead that their contracts, which were originally only for a year, would not be renewed under a structural reorganisation. CAMS also indicated there would be a shakeup of the rally board, which includes council’s general manager Mike Rayner. Mr Rayner’s position as a director on the board came under fire from councillors and rally protest- ers as a conflict of interest. CAMS also appeared to recognise there had been a lack of community consultation for the event, after suffering a huge backlash from sections of the community which resulted in the cancellation of a stage at Byrrill Creek and Mayor Warren Polglase tries to block a shot from Jessica Dooley as Arkinstall Park, Tweed Heads South, in the coming months. much negative publicity around Australia and the world. (l-r) Ashleigh Dunemann, Keeley Serone and Tayla Wilson look on. Association president Joanne Watters welcomed the upgrade, The peak motor sport body said it planned to establish The players are members of the Tweed Netball Association saying it made it possible for the Tweed to host state events. regional consultative and advisory committees in addition which will be an early beneficiary of the major improvements at Photo Jeff ‘Shooter’ Dawson to the existing environmental consultative and advisory committee ‘as a mechanism for community engagement’. Ken Sapwell estimates the cost of establishing the com- Engineering director Patrick Knight said A report in RallySport Magazine said the decision to plex at more than $42 million. Cr Milne’s concerns would be taken into hold the rally in Tweed and Kyogle Shires ‘was always a A $21 million indoor sports stadium will be Other facilities in the staged development account once the project moved to a more contentious one, with a strong band of protesters against the centrepiece of a regional sporting com- include a grandstand and player amenities detailed planning phase. the event’. plex to be built at Arkinstall Park, South at a cost of $8 million and new regional ‘It’s a good news story, a culmination of ‘With three of the event’s main organising team now Tweed Heads, over the next 10 years. tennis and netball facilities estimated to seven years planning by this council,’ he out of the picture, a new general manager will have his/ Tweed Council voted 6-1 to adopt a mas- cost $2.5 million. said. her work cut out starting from scratch. Upson, Newman ter plan for the complex and to spend $2.4 There will also be improved community His views were shared by most council- and Pearce will take a huge amount of knowledge with million to kickstart the big-ticket project. facilities such as barbecues. lors, with Dot Holdom describing it as them, and a new team will have to re-build relationships Initial work will include tree planting, Greens councillor Katie Milne opposed ‘the best thing since sliced bread in this with governments, local councils, sponsors and the like,’ improved lighting and upgrading of the the venture, saying the fate of koalas that area.’ the report this month said. existing netball and tennis courts. inhabit some of the mature eucalypts on Funding for the project will come mainly RallySport Magazine believed that ‘no sponsor is tied The master plan, prepared by consultants the 12hectare site had not been considered from active-open space contributions from continued on page 4 following three years of community input, in the report. developers. 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BAP0085 2 November 26, 2009, 2009 The Tweed Shire Echo <echowebsection=Local News> www.tweedecho.com.au Local News Planning takes sea rises into account HOME SUSTAINABILITY ASSESSOR TRAINING Tweed Heads in 2009 (left) and a simulated image of inundation from a sea level rise of 1.1 metres and a 1-in-100 year storm tide. © CNES 2009/Imagery supplied courtesy of SPOT Imaging Services and Geospatial Intelligence Pty Ltd Ken Sapwell Tweed homes to be lost under water Become a Home Developers planning residential Sustainability Assessor projects around Tweed estuar- Two thousand homes on the reviewing the report and will tion of a 1.1 metre rise in sea ies face a new hurdle under new Tweed could be sunk under present its findings to its meet- levels, combined with a one- ASSESSOR REGISTRATION STOPS 24/12! planning policies designed to rising sea levels this century, ing on Tuesday, Dec ember 15. in-100-year storm tide. according to a groundbreaking Council will then outline its The report says Lake Mac- Qualified assessors can conduct sustainability cope with rising sea levels. assessments under the federal government's Green The policies, which will result new federal report on climate own response. quarie will be the hardest hit change. 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