Way to go Mayor Sarah Ndiaye. Brunswick Heads paid parking, no longer free for residents; Mullumbimby’s town entrance destroyed forevermore and Byron Bay becoming the ‘Kings Cross’ of the Northern Rivers. What a trifecta you have overseen to ruin Byron Shire. How can a supposedly Green mayor with a majority in Council allow this to happen? Our real Green Mayor, Jan Barham, kept the developers from ruining the shire with courage and tact and strength of character. All of which seem sadly missing from this current lot of no-hopers. The entrance to Mullum (57 Station St carpark-to-housing development) proposal contradicts so many planning constraints and federal, state, and local regulations it could not pass a private DA. And the ex-Poinciana lot next door is now to be developed as more housing in an incredibly constricted area. Slum tenements making a mockery of our ‘heritage-listed’ community.
Shame upon shame Sarah and co. Now to our Byron ‘entertainment district’ proposal. Most people know that Byron town CBD is not safe after midnight, especially on the weekends. Drunks, fights, females abused and raped, thefts especially of ebikes, and now robberies in front of the Commonwealth Bank in broad daylight. Not safe to use the teller machine.
Not ‘family-friendly’ at all.
I feel another Wallum direct action movement coming on in Mullum if Byron Council continues to allow this monstrosity to proceed. Councillors you have been forewarned. As you say, ‘It’s a done deal’ – nothing more to say on the matter.
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. 
