Byron Shire Council in consultation with the Maritime Safety Association, has demolished the Cape Byron Lighthouse.
‘It has been a problem for many years that this old building has exceeded Byron Shire Council’s building height restrictions. Developers are constantly trying to cite it as a precedent to justify their own dreams and aspirations,’ BSC planning department spokesperson, Mr Andy Didit, told The Echo.
‘I’m glad this demolition was not held up by too much red tape. It’s good to see this was prioritised over the bulldozing of the two superfluous peaks of Mt Chincogan.’
When contacted, the minister for the department of such things, Mr Terry Bull, made the point that, ‘lighthouses were made redundant years ago with the advent of GPS and Facebook. There is some merit to the idea put forward by Byron’s enviro-mental lobby that the area become a significant clifftop whale feeding area, a la Monkey Mia, at Australia’s most westerly point.’
Protests by a cabal of Byronbased tantra-practitioners that the lighthouse rivalled the Big Banana and Ballina’s Big Prawn for its metaphorical significance were disregarded as fellatious.
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