About one month ago, I was invited, with my neighbours, to meet among the cypress pines on the southern end of Reflections’ Terrace holiday park in Brunswick Heads.
This is opposite my new home. It is so great to be back in Bruns – but – since that meeting, it hasn’t felt so great anymore.
We were informed by the Reflections management team that in ten days’ time, they would commence building in the protected cypress pine park.
Ten camping tents on wooden platforms are planned.
We were all shocked, as we believed that it was not legal for them to do this.
They gave us no warning; they said Council had approved it, and that there had been a law passed which said they could go ahead and do this.
They had maps and pictures of their plans, but no documents to support what they were about to do.
Of course we objected for many individual reasons, but the worst part was that we had not been given any notice as ‘neighbours’ of Reflections, no basic respect or consideration.
They have already built two-and-a-half camping tents. They are very big family tents, permanent structures, with serious solid metal frames. They have bedrooms, a sitting room and an entrance verandah. It’s glamping quality.
Patricia Warren wrote a letter in The Echo (page 13) last week called ‘Vandalism of a WW1 memorial’.
Hans Lovejoy also wrote an article about this. Please read these and tell your friends what is going on.
It’s so, not okay. You can also google www.echo.net.au for 25 March.
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. 
