Doug Luke, coordinator, Victims of Holiday Letting, Byron Bay
Nine hundred holiday lets in Byron Shire!
That’s 900 houses without permanent residents. No neighbour you can get to know and help build our community. For the sake of all Byron residents who have lost the amenity and social cohesion of their neighbourhoods we ask the holiday-let owners to please:
1. Stop the offensive noise and other behaviour problems that come from guests.
2. Support the draft Development Control Plan in Byron Shire Council’s Short Term Holiday Accommodation Strategy. This will legally assist you to control recalcitrant guests.
Victims of Holiday Letting (VOHL) has worked positively with Council in developing protection for our neighbourhood amenity. VOHL is the group that is saying yes to positive change. Please actively support Byron Council’s best-practice Development Control Plan by making a submission before December 8. Tell them how you feel, what you think and, most importantly, what you want.
For four decades The Echo has printed the stories some people loved, some people hated, and some pretended not to read. If you want us to keep telling the truth, the real truth, not the sugar-coated version. We’ll need your support to keep the presses rolling. 
