It is always if a developer gets knocked back by councils up and down the east coast they spit the dummy and run to the Land & Environment Court (Suffolk Park DA), which I think is a toothless tiger!
Australian developers are known for destroying the ambience of coastal areas for profit, not housing problems. Most of the time they don’t live in the area – rather they destroy someone else’s backyard.
Places like Noosa, Byron Bay, Lennox Head and many more coastal beauties are examples of overdevelopment. But money talks, and whoever has the best lawyers wins!
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. 
