To celebrate the Byron Community Centre’s ‘130 Years of Community Spirit’, artist Valentina Di Blase is sprucing up parts of the building and adding a wonderful splash of bright colour.
Greens Mayor Sarah Ndiaye used her casting vote to squash fellow Greens Cr Elia Hauge’s efforts to delay and seek independent legal advice around a planning agreement for a large contentious 39-large-lot exclusive greenfield proposal near the Mullumbimby Road and McAuleys Lane intersection.
Council’s General Manager, Mark Arnold, and Greens Mayor Sarah Ndiaye, have strongly backed planning staff after claims they inappropriately intervened to assist wealthy developers with their controversial large, exclusive 38 lot greenfield proposal near McAuleys Lane and Mullumbimby Road.
The controversial decision to install traffic lights at Suffolk Park’s notorious Clifford Street intersection could be reversed within weeks, after Byron Shire councillors voted to put the option of a roundabout firmly back on the table.
Claims by Byron Mayor Sarah Ndiaye (Greens) that Homes NSW had removed temporary accommodation for homeless people in Byron Shire have been strongly refuted by NSW Minister for Housing and Homelessness Rose Jackson (Labor).
Tourism operators running hotels and motels have been accused of charging the state government higher rates than tourists to accommodate some of the most vulnerable people in the state in the lead-up to Christmas.
The first meeting of the new Byron Council term was barely an hour old when the realities of politics and power quietly made their presence known in the Council chamber.
The Byron Shire Council is to be led by a Greens’ mayor again for the first time since Simon Richardson’s departure before the 2021 local government election.
Labor mayoral candidate Asren Pugh has conceded defeat in the September 14 local government elections, with Greens candidate Sarah Ndiaye poised to become Byron Shire Council’s new mayor.
Counting in the 2024 Byron Shire Council election after polling booths closed Saturday suggested a Greens-majority was again in sight for the first time since 2016.
The murder of a swan at Lake Kimberley, Banora Point in June last year outraged locals and led Tweed Shire Councillors (TSC) to look at ways they can support the local wildlife in the area.
