Billinudgel Property Trust is selling North Byron Parklands, and thousands of Byron-Tweed residents are jumping for joy.
No more satellite cities plonking right next to Billinudgel Nature Reserve. No more disturbing late-night noise, festival traffic clogging our roads, telecommunications in a snarl because thousands on site are jamming the airwaves. No more discarded camping gear on site and countless plastic bits carelessly dropped and ground into the soil.
For punters, no more flooded campsites, body searches, waiting in the cold for buses that never show up, and no more Live Nation ripoffs with through-the-roof ticket prices.
So goodbye Splendour! There’s a chance now for our own artists and venues to build a new, vibrant, year-round local music scene.
Whoever buys the site: remember it’s in North Byron’s catchment, where flood water sits before making its way out to sea at Bruns.
What to do with this flood-prone land? Fill is not the answer! The current owners brought in some with state government approval, but more is simply not appropriate for a flood zone of that size.
We hope the new owners will work with our Council to give the land the environmental protection it has been sorely lacking as a mega-festival site.
A victory for nimbys everywhere! Pull up the ladder, the fun has been had, its cup of tea and watch the telly time. Locals Only! Why not paint it on the rocks.
Yes, there was a lovely write up in The SMH 15/3/25.
“So goodbye Splendour” and its goodbye to our $’s100.000 Splendour Squander Spenda that the Justine has wasted.
White Lotus “wellness” centre here we come.
Because the shire needs one more venue appealing to narcissism to liberate oodles of cash from rich people.
Re-wild the site.
Floating City – Flood zone and water land maybe
worth 3.5M not 35 M