Save Wallum campaigners say they’ve packed down their protest blockade camp at the Omega Circuit site in Brunswick Heads’ Bayside Estate.
The group has issued a media release saying the decision means they can focus on critical next steps in their fight to permanently protect the ecologically sensitive area, including raising funds for court and legal costs.
A temporary injunction on the planned Wallum Estate residential development under Federal Court Orders is still in place, with the matter delayed for hearing until 21 February next year.
Save Wallum spokesperson Svea Pitman says there will still be events and gatherings at the site but protestors are confident developers Clarence Property will comply with the injunction.
‘We had never imagined what an enormous community protest Save Wallum would become, or that the community 24 hour Vigil would run for over nine months,’ Ms Pitman says.
‘It’s been incredibly successful and built rapidly,’ she says, ‘and it is time to let the land rest, let the residents of Bayside have a break, and for those who have held the Vigil day and night, and fed the frontliners, to have a break!
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