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Residents in the Tweed Shire are in for a 2 percent rate increase. Mayor Chris Cherry says a large portion of the additional funds will be used for much-needed road repairs. “Obviously we’ve had a lot of damage to roads due to flooding recently, and I think everybody has noticed that and so we’re putting a lot of emphasis into repairing those landslides, potholes, and just trying to make our roads as safe as possible,” Tweed Mayor, Chris Cherry, said. The rise is part of council’s $25...

Premium Content Subscriber only Rates in the Tweed Shire Council area are expected to go up by 2 per cent this year as detailed in the councils $254 million draft budget plan. The average residential ratepayer will be slapped with a $1124.70 ordinary rates bill for the 2021/22 financial year - a total of $22.05 more than last year. Water, sewerage and waste charges are also on the rise, costing the average rate payer an extra $30.30 on top of ordinary rates. The budget draft states the rate...

Premium Content Subscriber only A proposed affordable living project in the Wardrop Valley was the centre a heated debate at Thursday night’s Tweed Shire Council meeting. Driven by Councillor Ron Cooper, the concept is to develop an affordable rental living village on council-owned land on Wardrop Valley Rd, adjoining the Murwillumbah Industry Central Estate, about 5km to the southeast of the Murwillumbah town centre – at no expense to rate payers. However, a recent review by the Audit, Ri...

DURSLEY is one of ten towns and villages to become a Cotswold Gateways location. Led by the Cotswolds National Landscape team, the aim of the Gateways project is to offer key sites from which people can follow walking and cycling routes to explore some of the countryside of the Cotswolds Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. These routes provide opportunities to discover hidden corners, epic views, historic sites, and a rich diversity of wildlife. “This is great for Dursley,” said Chr...

Premium Content Subscriber only At Thursday night’s meeting councillors voted unanimously in favour of declaring the local government area was experiencing an extreme situation with respect to lack of housing availability and affordability in our community. Mayor Chris Cherry brought forward the motion, citing a previous study which showed the Tweed Shire to be the eighth least affordable place for youth to live in the world and further studies showing 35 per cent of the community lived o...

Dr. Chris Cherry is a Professor in Civil Engineering at the University of Tennessee. His research is centered on the intersection of policy, technology, travel behavior, safety and sustainability in the transportation sector. His past and current work spans the globe, with projects in Asia and the US. Focusing on low-impact transportation modes, much of the work of his career has aimed to understand the role of lightweight electric vehicles (micromobility) in the transportation space, starting ...

Premium Content A new study will be at the forefront of flood planning in the Tweed Valley. Residents have been asked to share their personal experience to help Tweed Shire Council better understand past flooding events. Roads and stormwater manager Danny Rose said flooding was not confined to one part of the Tweed and council wanted to better understand flooding in the upper parts of the valley, including the villages of Tyalgum, Chillingham, Uki and the surrounding rural areas. “A floo...

 "We keep getting hammered by storm events." The constant battering down the hatches and cost of local clean ups is what has motivated Tweed Shire Council mayor Chris Cherry to join 17 mayors across Queensland and New South Wales to call upon the Federal Government to urgently take action on climate change. The statement asks the Federal Government to provide support by further reducing our reliance on fossil fuels, and investing in clean industries that create regional jobs, unlocking busi...

Staff not returning calls and closure over Christmas were two of 20 complaints one Northern Rivers council received in the past quarter. A report to be tabled at the next Tweed Shire Council meeting reveals the council received 44 compliments and 20 complaints between October and December 2020. According to the Compliments and Complaints Analysis Report the most complimented area was park and open space maintenance under the Sustainable Communities and Environment division, which received 16 c...

Richard, you’re sounding very out of touch. Milne and Cherry listen to their community and know there is strong support for rail services, just as there always has been. “Unrest” will naturally occur when it’s planned to remove any chance of that happening in the future. It’s not up to Milne or Cherry, the community will do it themselves! The rail trail isn’t much of “community path” when using most of it would only suitable to a very small group of people, ie cyclists with the ...