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Premium Content Subscriber only A busy Goonellabah intersection will soon be easier to navigate with plans for a new roundabout forging ahead. Lismore City Council will dedicate land at the intersection of Oliver Ave, Taylor Rd, and Holland St - part of Hepburn Park - to form a roundabout, kerb and guttering, and a carpark. The Lismore Employment Lands Project aims to link Oliver Ave between Holland Street and Pineapple Road.     The project will also see modifications and upgrades to the existing roundabout at Bruxner Highway/Holland Street, and filling of council-owned land at 260 O...

Premium Content Subscriber only It’s half filled with slimy green water, and hasn’t seen much love for more than a decade, but if you have any “great ideas” on how to transform Lismore Lake Pool from an eyesore into a community treasure, the council wants to hear from you. The unpopular decision to close the pool was made in 2011 after Lismore City Council decided mounting maintenance costs made it unviable. The Lismore Lake Pool was closed to the public in 2011. Following years of debate over what to do with the pool, in October councillors resolved to seek expressions of interest ...

Premium Content Subscriber only FOUR years ago, water was overtopping the levee wall in Lismore in one of the town's worst flood events on record. A new channel, which was officially opened on Wednesday, hoped to lessen the impact of similar major flooding in future. Lismore City Council's $8.2 million South Lismore Flood Mitigation Project is now officially complete and has already passed the test of two floods. Flood modelling suggests the project should reduce peak water levels in the CBD, North Lismore and South Lismore by as much as 100mm in a 1-in-100-year flood event.   Lismore f...

Premium Content Subscriber only A craft brewery could open in South Lismore as early as Easter if all goes to plan, owner of the proposed venture, Grant Smith said. The exhausted, but relieved co-owner of Two Mates Brewing said it had been a long week, and there was still a long way to go, but he was happy a rescission motion against development approval for the brewery was not supported by Lismore City Council at an extraordinary meeting on Monday night. And now, Mr Smith said, they were looking forward to "providing something good for the community" at 7 Engine St, and were more than wil...

Premium Content Subscriber only The craft brewery planned for South Lismore has been granted a deferred commencement consent by Lismore City Council. The brewery was been subject to a feisty debate at Lismore City Council's meeting on Tuesday night (February 9) which saw allegations of "bullying" and "intimidation" levelled against Two Mates Brewing. One of the main residents against the development, Tristan Inglis, raised concerns about the DA application which he described as "erratic" and "indecisive". "It just seems be freestyling along and changing and adapting really erratically, in...