Last week’s letters was again filled with very well composed questions and expressions of dismay with the controversy surrounding the Special Entertainment Precinct (SEP).
Submissions have been presented, public rallies, letters and estimations of public dissent have reached numbers of 90 per cent not in favour of the precinct.
Yet it was passed by Council into the next stage of the development application (DA). Unbelievable!
Yet the residents are not up in arms (so to speak), of their democratic expressions of disapproval for this very divisive DA.
Also included in the very same issue, a number of very well expressed articles and letters concerning gender-based violence, and domestic violence, and the numbers sited in our shire are extremely unsettling.
Yet our councillors are in a majority to extend liquor licences beyond 12am to 2am.
We all fought hard to prevent Woolies and Dan Murphy’s from coming into town because of the alcohol availability and its ramifications.
The next Council vote will be crucial.
Have your say in this urgently, there is much more at stake than what has been shown to us.
Write to Council, flood them with letters and distressing phone calls. Vote no.
Savaad Churcher-Wells
Byron Bay
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. 
