Category: Developers

Zombie Developments: Communities Organise to Stop Developments Approved Decades Ago

Many of these developments were approved decades ago, avoiding environmental, cultural heritage and other impact assessments that are required today. “Communities right along the length of the NSW coast are fighting to protect sensitive coastal bushland and villages from dozens of inappropriate developments that will change our beautiful coast forever if allowed to go ahead.…

Historic Legacy Developments

A current Council meeting agenda item is the already approved though not acted upon historical Legacy Development Approvals which would not meet today’s DA requirements, and if anything can be done to bring legacy developments consents into line with current development standards. From the TSC Meeting May 18 Agenda: “The NSW Planning system has created…

Tweed Growth Management and Housing Strategy Survey

Below is the link to the survey and also the Caldera Environment Centre’s priority issues as a guide to help with your survey responses. Closing date is 12th Sept. CEC points – from the perspective of preserving Tweeds internationally significant biodiversity and maintaining the character of local ‘village’ communities as well as preserving productive farmlands. Suggested responses to survey questions: Q on places and types of residential development for…

Submission – ‘Nightcap on Minjungbul’ (DA21/0010) Caldera Environment Centre

Submission opposing DA21/0010 ‘Nightcap on Minjungbul’. A concept development application (DA) was lodged with Tweed Shire Council on 14 January 2021 over land at 2924, 2956, 2984 and 3222 Kyogle Road, Kunghur & Mount Burrell, hereafter referred to as “the site”. The application seeks approval for: Integrated Development – staged concept development application under s4.22 of…

Relocate Tweed Valley Hospital

Information to support submissions on the proposed location of a hospital on state significant farmland at Cudgen is at the Relocate Tweed Valley Hospital website   Submissions are due by 5pm on 13th December 2018.

Stop Adani Tweed community survey

Stop Adani Tweed wishes to survey the views of Tweed Shire residents, regarding the proposed massive expansion of coal mining in Queensland, including the so-called “Adani” mine in the Galilee Basin. Yes, the projects that are the subject of our survey are located in Queensland, but many of the issues at stake have national and…

Final Draft Rural Land Strategy presentation

There will be a drop-in session at Murwillumbah Civic Centre’s Canvas and Kettle Room, Thursday February 1 from 7pm to 8:30pm.  The session will cover the more than 140 proposed actions in the Draft Strategy which will shape the future of rural land use in Tweed Shire.  Draft Rural Land Strategy on exhibition until 28th February.

Journey to Stop Adani frontline

A journey to the front line is being arranged by the Northern Rivers Stop Adani Group leaving on January 13 and returning on January 21. Living costs for the week on the front line are $250 and include everything.  For more information look up the Stop Adani Byron Shire Facebook page. You can also post questions and ask…

Frontline Action on Coal

Ways to help from home http://www.frontlineaction.org/get-involved To join the frontline action http://www.frontlineaction.org/pledge/

VICTORY. Downer drops Adani!

This is HUGE!! Downer quietly dropped to the stock exchange this morning that they will no longer build or operate Adani’s Carmichael mine. Adani are pretending that it’s ‘mutual’, that they can build the mine themselves. But Adani have never built a mine in Australia and never built a mine this big. They simply can’t…

EDO Fact Sheets

Private Land Conservation Clearing Vegetation on Rural Land Clearing trees on urban land and in environmental zones  

Stand with the Wangan & Jagalingou people

At any moment, the Queensland Government could extinguish Wangan and Jagalingou native title rights in the Galilee Basin – the land Adani wants to build their Carmichael mega mine on. [1] The Wangan and Jagalingou (W&J) Family Council have already said NO to Adani four times and are in the midst of a court battle…

Draft Crown Land Management Regulation 2017

Future protection, management, use, transfer or sale of our publicly owned Crown Lands will be defined by the draft Regulation now on exhibition.  The Regulations underpin the Crown Land Management Act 2016 (NSW). Comment can be made until midnight on Sunday 15 October 2017. Documents that explain the Draft Regulation and inform submissions are: Draft Crown Land Management…

Limpinwood logging – Private Native Forestry – Hewittville Pty. Ltd.

Logging on a property of high ecological significance at Limpinwood is causing grave concerns for locals and all people who care about native wildlife, habitat for rare and threatened species, cultural heritage, and corridor connectivity to World Heritage Areas. Unauthorised works happened on this property in 2014.  Read the back story. On 7 September 2017…

Keep speaking out against Adani

A message from GetUp.. Since we last spoke, we’ve had two huge wins against Adani. The momentum is palpable. First, after almost 8,000 of you chipped in to run a huge marginal seats campaign, another Coalition MP has publicly defied Turnbull over the $1 billion dollar Adani loan.  The campaign is now in full swing,…

Clearing Vegetation

 Information on legislations governing clearing of trees are in these two PDF documents on the EDO site.  http://www.edonsw.org.au/forestry_clearing_vegetation_trees Forestry, Clearing Vegetation & Trees Clearing vegetation  and Forestry, Clearing Vegetation & Trees Forestry

Limpinwood revisited: History repeats

———————————————————————————————— LIMPINWOOD REVISITED:     ———————————————————————————————- Tweed planners back off prosecuting over illegal works  Tweed Shire Council Chief Planner Vince Connell has recommended that council not proceed with the prosecution of the developer whose unauthorised land clearing caused a major pollution event at Hopping Dick Creek, Limpinwood. The pollution event destroyed a well-known and loved platypus habitat. It also deposited tons of sediment and construction debris into Hopping Dick Creek. This…

Tweed developer to face NSW Land and Environment Court

ORIGINAL LINK: http://calderaenvironmentcentre.org/?p=1998 ***Update: Unauthorised works Boorman’s Rd, Limpinwood *** DEVELOPER TO FACE NSW LAND AND ENVIRONMENT COURT At the last Tweed Shire Council Planning Committee meeting, it was recommended that: 1. Issues a Notice of Direction to take clean-up action under Section 91 of the Environment Operations Act 1997, to the owner of the…

Limpinwood Pollution Event Linked to Earthworks, Land Clearing

On the 18th of April 2014, members of the Caldera Environment Centre attended a location at Boormans Rd Limpinwood, identified as Lot 127, DP 755724, to investigate allegations of unauthorised earthworks and land clearing. The impetus for this investigation was a significant flood event that resulted in a massive industrial debris and sediment load entering…