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THE TWEED Volume 3 #12 Thursday, November 18, 2010 Advertising and news enquiries: Phone: (02) 6672 2280 editor@tweedecho.com.au adcopy@tweedecho.com.au www.tweedecho.com.au
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Council adopts minor role in Noble appeal Ken Sapwell
Tweed Shire Council will stay on the sidelines when the owner of a Kingscliff manufactured home park launches legal proceedings in a bid to squeeze an extra 45 homes onto the estate. Noble Lakeside Park owner Keith Noble will appeal refusal of his $10.4 million project by the government’s new Joint Region Planning Panel (JRPP) which was set up to approve developments worth more than $10 million. Residents cheered the JRPP’s recent surprise decision to knock back the controversial canalstyle development after it had earlier been given the green light by council’s own planners. Council’s chief planner Vince Connell said in a report to this week’s council meeting that the NSW Department of Planning would pick up the tab for the appeal, believed to be the first in NSW.
‘Limited capacity’ only He said the council could either become directly involved in defending the appeal, refuse to take part in the proceedings or assist only with preparing conditions for any future consent if the Land and Environment Court upholds the appeal. The council adopted a recommendation which involved the council in a ‘limited capacity’ only and to seek reimbursement from
Surfing legend honoured
memorial events in 1970, crediting well known Gold Coast surfer/shaper Tony Dempsey who drove him down from the Gold Coast to Wanda Beach in his mother’s car 40 years ago to assembled guests at the surfing and compete in the event. beach culture museum that he had ‘I became the custodian of the been ‘totally inspired’ by Bobby Brown perpetual trophy as a result,’ he told when growing up on the Gold Coast The Echo. as a ‘gremmie’ and dreamt about beBobby Brown died, aged 20, in 1967 ing as good a surfer. as a result of a ‘glassing’ over a game Andy, who plans to write a book on of pool in a Sydney pub. He and his the legend, said he went on to win fiancee Lorraine were planning to the last of only three Bobby Brown marry at the end of the year and go to
Tweed-Gold Coast surfing identity Andrew McKinnon with the Bobby Brown Perpetual Trophy at Gold Coast Surf World, Currumbin, last week where the Bobby Brown exhibition was launched. Photo Jeff ‘Watch Me Now I’m Going Down’ Dawson
A crowd of more than 200 surfing enthusiasts and former champions dropped in to Gold Coast Surf World at Currumbin last Thursday night for the launch of an exhibition featuring legendary Aussie surfer Bobby Brown. Host Andrew McKinnon told the
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Rejected for multiple impacts It rejected the application mainly because of the impacts on their amenity, flood and drainage concerns and damage to endangered ecological communities in the area where the extra 45 houses were to go. Council planners had also acknowledged similar concerns but had recommended that the project be approved on a deferred commencement basis requiring Baclon to satisfy 96 conditions. Mr Connell told this week’s council meeting that the proponents had not yet given their grounds for an appeal but more would probably be known following a telephone hook-up next week. Cr Warren Polglase, who is employed by Mr Noble as a caretaker of the estate, absented himself from the debate.
Hawaii for their honeymoon. Lorraine provided photos and memorabilia of the legend to the museum. ‘Like Andy Irons, Bobby Brown of Cronulla was ahead of his time but was sadly struck down in his prime. During the sixties he was rated among the best surfers in the world, such as Australia’s first surfing champions Midget Farrelly and Nat Young,’ Andy said. Bobby Brown’s older brother John reminisced about his younger sibling and how the key to his success was
the ‘freedom’ he experienced from his surfing. Cronulla surfing pioneer and artist Gary Birdsall flew up especially from Wollongong with a new painting of his close mate who he said could easily have been a world champion. Among other well known surf legends attending were Cheyne Horan and Richard Harvey. The exhibition is open till the end of January and then hits the road in March for other surf festivals and events.
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the department for any legal costs. The five-man JRPP received a standing ovation from a packed public gallery in August when it unanimously rejected an application by Baclon Pty Ltd to build homes which would partly sit over a lake, supported by stilts. It agreed with residents that it was an overdevelopment of the site, with chairman Garry West saying this was clearly demonstrated by the fact that the houses had to be built out over the water.