THE TWEED SHIRE Volume 2 #18 Thursday, January 14, 2010 Advertising and news enquiries: THE Phone: (02) 6672 2280 NORTH COAST’S Fax: (02) 6672 4933 REAL ESTATE [email protected] [email protected] GUIDE Pages 23–26 www.tweedecho.com.au LOCAL & INDEPENDENT High-rise gateway Mop set for the big charity chop on the horizon Ken Sapwell it a vast improvement on what we had before,’ he said in reference to the Tweed Heads could be book-ended by 2004 Tweed Heads master plan which high-rise buildings under sweeping the government refused to adopt for new plans unveiled by a government- undisclosed reasons. appointed taskforce last week. ‘Hopefully it will help breathe new The draft plan allows buildings up life into the place, especially with to 24-storeys close to the border and plans to restore the Jack Evans Boat lifts a three-storey limit on the south- Harbour already underway.’ ern end to enable two 17-storey tow- Cr Polglase warned however that ers to straddle the road and create a parking requirements could still in- Gold Coast-style gateway. hibit developers from achieving the The radical changes aim to revive full potential of the new rezonings the town by encouraging the rede- and was a serious impediment which velopment of ageing buildings and needed to be addressed during the construction on several vacant blocks consultation process. which pock-mark the run-down cen- Tweed Heads Residents’ Associa- tral business district. tion president Laurie Ganter says the The draft Tweed Heads Local Envi- new vision for the town will please ronment Plan (LEP) will go on public some and upset others, with the exhibition next week and council staff southern creep of high-rise and re- will start meeting with community strictions preventing expansion of the groups and consultants next month Council’s civic centre certain to spark to explain the details. comment. Sacha Yarrow has been growing his dreadlocks for years but is willing to chop them off for cancer research. New blueprint High rise to the south Photo Jeff ‘Living In Dread’ Dawson. It is being released at the same time ‘The plan fairly closely resembles Kim Cousins March 11-13 or later if Sacha hasn’t the World’s Greatest Shave has raised as wider changes to planning laws the 2004 master plan with high rise hit the $10,000 mark by then. more than $93 million and helped contained in a long overdue shire- mostly confined close to the border You may have bought fruit and vegies ‘I’m hoping people will get behind to support patients and their fami- wide LEP which also goes on public apart from some notable exceptions, off local Sacha Yarrow at Murwil- it,’ he said. ‘It’s going well so far.’ lies suffering from leukaemia, lym- exhibition, providing a new blueprint including new zonings for high rise lumbah’s Tweed Fruit Exchange, but Sacha, who, likes ‘all sorts of music phoma, myeloma and related blood for the first time in 10 years. on part of the southern end of town,’ be prepared to see a little less of him done well’ spends much time on his disorders. Among the big winners in the he said. by the end of March. recording studio at his parent’s By- To make a donation, visit Tweed Tweed Heads rezoning stakes are the ‘The plan also protects the civic The 29-year-old musician is setting algum farm. Money raised by Sacha Fruit Exchange, Riverside Pizza or the von Bibra car dealer ship site, prop- centre as a heritage building and ap- out to raise $10,000 in the Leukaemia will go towards leukaemia research Style Shop in Murwillumbah or visit erty owners on the other side of the pears to allow no scope for future ex- Foundation World’s Greatest Shave. and treatment. Since it began in 1998, www.worldsgreatestshave.com. road and the Twin Towns Services pansion even though it was built even ‘I’ve got a lot of hair to take off,’ he Club where three-storey limits have before Banora Point was developed said. ‘There’s about a metre’s worth.’ been scrapped in favour of high rise. and its library and meeting facilities Sacha has been growing his dread- Major sport events set for 2010 Mayor Warren Polglase says the are woefully inadequate to meet to- locks for ‘at least 10 years’ and figures The Tweed is set to be home to new and Tweed Tourism have commenced plan should finally provide a firm di- day’s demands.’ it’s time for a change. major sporting events including the initial talks and planning to bring a rection for developers after years of He predicted that the shire-wide ‘I thought, it has to be cut at some ‘Battle on the Border’ (cycling), Kingy new program of three marquee sport- uncertainty and hopefully lead to an LEP would probably generate more stage,’ he said. ‘I may as well help Tri (triathlon) and the popular Casua- ing events and development programs economic revival mirroring the suc- controversy, particularly the apparent someone when I do it. rina Cup (Touch Football) as well as to the Tweed which will grow over cess story of its cross-border rival at proliferation of what appears to be ‘I’m hoping I’ll get a bit of money athlete high performance programs time bringing 12,000 participants to Coolangatta. new four-storey limits in towns and with the mop I’ve got.’ this year. the Tweed by 2012. ‘We welcome the plan and consider continued on page 2 The big chop is pencilled in for Tweed Shire Council, QSMSports continued on page 2 THE GOOD GUYS TWEED HEADS SOUTH SAMSUNG 12.1” LAPTOP UÊ >Ê*ÀViÃÃÀ WAS $699 UÊ£Èä Ê NOW SALESAALE ENDSENDS MONDAYMONDADAYAY JANUARYJANUARY 1818 UÊ£ Ê, UÊ£Ó°£»Ê Ê-VÀii $ LIMITEDD STOCKSTOCK – BEBE QUICK!QUICK!! 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The teaching aspects of their Burringbar area for 21 years. we milk eight, two times a Being organic we can’t spray farm come naturally to the The 87-acre property has evol- week, and also make cheese under the trees so we’re bree- couple. Kevin used to work at ved naturally in that time. for ourselves.’ ding ducks for the orchard as a CSIRO and now teaches at ‘We had weed problems so ‘We started looking at things form of pest control.’ Nimbin. He has an interest in aquaponics, the cultivation of aquatic plants and animals li- Fed-up residents call crime meeting ving in symbiotic harmony. Jan has taught science at uni- Residents of Jacaranda Avenue An inquest is being held into this happens, and it’s a terrible versity and TAFE and works and surrounding streets in the man’s death and police are situation, we have to leave it in from home in her own lab. Her Tweed Heads who feel terror- investigating the assault. the hands of the police.’ specialty is plant tissue culture, ised by a spate of youth vio- Residents are concerned Tweed Heads crime preven- which she taught at university lence and crime are organising about the harassment by a tion officer, Senior Constable an urgent public meeting fol- gang of youths running ram- Andrew Eppelstun, said police 21 Lawson St, and TAFE and now carries out Byron Bay for Forests NSW. lowing a suicide and assault in pant in the area. The meeting were keen to work with the Kevin and Jan met while stu- their neighbourhood in recent is a way of finding solutions to community and would attend 6685 5505 dying environmental science at weeks. the growing problem and the the meeting. ‘We want to talk Local media reported that a community is inviting politi- to the community. We need to 62-year-old Jacaranda Avenue cians and police to attend. get some good communication man shot himself on Decem- Tweed Valley Combined with the community.’ ber 11 and a man from nearby Neighbourhood Watch secretary vSen Const Eppelstun said Riviera Avenue was assaulted Gordon Levenson said commu- the reported incidents were with a cricket bat by up to 15 nication between the commu- being investigated and ‘as of youths on January 2. An elder- nity and police was the key. a couple of weeks ago, we in- ly man in the area also had his ‘We will be encouraging creased police presence in the garden vandalised three times people to speak to the police,’ area.