When Byron Shire Council meets next week, one decision facing them is to restate the boundaries they have previously set for the three Brunswick Heads camping grounds (as council is by legislation the consent authority).
Crucially, council must also require that North Coast Holiday Parks Inc. (NCHP) actually sign and return council’s lease agreement, or cease and desist trading and occupation of the three sites.
The ball is in council’s court, as NCHP have for some years now refused to sign the lease agreement offered by council, the consent authority. Council has authority to set the date by which NCHP must sign the lease – or leave – to end this stalemate of two decades.
Most of Brunswick’s residents and many of Ocean Shore’ are very angry with NCHP’s behaviour over the years.
The recent outrage over the disrespectful treatment planned by NCHP for the 101 coastal pines, planted a century ago by the grieving people of Brunswick Heads to honour the local men who died in WWI, is typical.
People are in agreement, and this council can do it – require NCHP to sign the lease agreement or go.
David Hall, Ocean Shores
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