My family and I own 30 Middleton Street, Byron Bay, which backs on to Keesing Lane.
We, along with our neighbours, are shocked and scared, by the proposal for the sites 111 to 115 Jonson Street.
Merivale purchased Cheeky Monkeys, then Thai Sabai next door, then three shops to Johnsons Restaurant next door to that.
They already have an approved DA which somehow managed to roll Cheeky Monkeys’ 2am licence further down the street.
I don’t know how that happened. Now they have a new DA which includes, among other things, three outdoor courtyards for 180 patrons facing my property and four more outdoor areas facing Jonson Street. All up they want to get 585 people onto their site to party until 2am.
I have four apartments facing Keesing Lane with great permanent long-term local tenants as well as two tenancies facing Middleton Street, office and yoga studio.
The outdoor courtyards proposed would be 30 metres from where my tenants sleep.
One couple has a baby, another is planning to have a baby. They all need to get up and go to work early.
Cheeky Monkeys was fully enclosed with no outdoor areas and we could not hear any noise.
If there is to be any outdoor areas they need to cease trading and all be indoors by 10pm.
Please Byron Council, protect us.
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