Developers behind two environmentally sensitive residential projects in the Byron Shire are seeking to relax restrictions on cats and dogs, arguing that responsible pet ownership offers a more practical and enforceable way of protecting native wildlife than blanket bans.

Multi-dwellings comprising six, two storey, three bedroom detached dwellings and six swimming pools is being proposed across 18, 20 and 22 Autumn Crt, in West Byron.

A controversial $4.3 million industrial development will be built on a sensitive greenfield site next to the Harvest housing estate in West Byron, after Byron Shire Council and the developer settled a dispute over conditions in the Land & Environment Court.

The developers behind the Harvest housing estate in West Byron are seeking yet another modification to their 150-lot subdivision project.

As the developers of the West Byron housing estates fuel up their concrete trucks, a smaller residential developer has quietly concocted plans for prime real estate on Ewingsdale Road.

The potential future risks and costs of flooding to the community and government if approved, but yet to be built, housing is allowed to go ahead in floodplains was under the spotlight last week in Kingscliff.

Land clearing has begun on one of the West Byron land parcels on Ewingsdale Road, owned by Tower Holdings.

The Land and Environment Court’s decision to move forward with West Byron is a cruel blow for our community and the environment and has imposed impacts and consequences which will be endured for years to come.

It was a week when the worst ever natural disaster hit our Shire; then came the news that the Commissioner of the Land and Environment Court had approved the subdivision for the remaining half of West Byron – another disaster that, unlike the floods, we should have been able to stop. 

The development application by the ‘local’ group, Site R&D, for West Byron has been approved by the Land and Environment Court.