National Parks and Wildlife Service (NPWS) are remaining tight-lipped over the outcome of a stakeholder meeting last week around the future of the clothes-optional beach at Tyagarah.
June 30 deadline
Tyagarah Beach will remain a clothes-optional location until at least June 30, after a concerted campaign from the local naturist community.
Residents, on the other hand, say for years the area has attracted undesirable and obscene behaviour, particularly in the lakes near the beach.
NPWS recently announced that Tyagarah would no longer be a nudist beach because it was not in keeping with the department’s policies and values.
The Echo asked NPWS what the outcome of the meeting was, and also ‘whether a clothes-optional beach closer to Byron has been considered?’
A NPWS spokesperson told The Echo, ‘The NPWS met stakeholders, including naturists, concerned locals and Council to consider current and alternative locations should the Clothes Optional Area (COA) continue into the future’.
‘Participants provided feedback and a number of options were put forward.
‘Safety and cultural values were important topics discussed.
‘NPWS will collate the information received and provide a report to Byron Shire Council as requested.No decision has been made on the status of the COA’.
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