In a much-hoped-for move, the NSW Government and the China Shenhua Energy Company Limited have reached a $100 million agreement in which Shenhua will withdraw its mining lease application and surrender its development consent for the Shenhua Watermark Coal project at Breeza on the Liverpool Plains. Ben Franklin MLC, Byron Shire Council Mayor Simon Richardson and Transport for NSW Executive Director Transport Partnerships, Regional and Outer Metropolitan, Barbara Wise at the opening of the new interchange. Photo supplied.
The new $8.4 million Byron Bay Interchange Station is now complete, with the aim of providing increased accessibility and safety for public transport customers.
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Subscriber only It has been a long road to this point, but the Byron Bay Bypass is expected to open this month. Byron Shire Council s client representative for the bypass, Josh Winter, said contractor Hazell Bros completed the bulk of works at the end of January but there are minor outstanding works to go through and tidy up . Mr Winter said the project had a lot of challenges . It s definitely been a challenging project, Mr Winter said. We started the project with protesters on site which delayed the start of the project. Police and protesters clashed at the Byron Bay bypass site in mid-2019.
Cyclonic conditions along Australia’s northeast coast generated huge seas that washed away beaches at popular tourist spots, and destructive winds and rain that caused widespread flooding.
Main Beach at Byron Bay, a popular tourist destination in northern New South Wales, has almost disappeared, Byron Mayor Simon Richardson said.
“Right now around Byron, we’ve got some severe weather, massive swells, we’re watching our beach disappear,” he said.
“This is about the fourth or fifth major event in the last couple of years.”
TV news footage showed a concrete walkway along the beach collapsing into the sea.
The wet conditions contrast with the fierce bushfires that ravaged world heritage site Fraser Island in Queensland recently.
12/14/2020
SYDNEY, Dec 14 (Reuters) - Cyclonic conditions along
Australia s northeast coast generated huge seas washing away
beaches at popular tourist spots and destructive winds and rain
causing widespread flooding, authorities said on Monday.
Main Beach at Byron Bay, a popular tourist destination in
northern New South Wales state and home to Hollywood A-listers
such as Chris Hemsworth, has all but disappeared, Byron Mayor
Simon Richardson told media on Monday.
Television news footage showed a concrete walkway along the
beach collapsing into the sea. Right now around Byron, we ve got some severe weather,
massive swells, we re watching our beach disappear, he said.