Council stands up to state govt

TWEED councillors were late yesterday urged to stand up to the NSW Government and tell them residents don’t want the Tweed to become “a cut-rate Gold Coast”.

Addressing the councillors at a community access session Murwillumbah resident Lisa Townsend, who has been fighting plans for high-density development, small house-lot sizes and a loss of koala habitat in the proposed Kings Forest and Cobaki Lakes townships, threw down the challenge.

“Any councillor that does not try to save the planning laws that generations of Tweed people have voted for and supported should be despised as traitors in our garden of Eden,” she said.

“She told councillors not to be frightened of scaring off the company behind the new township plans, Leda Developments.

“You might as well think you are going to scare off a charging rhino,” she said.

“They stand to make billions of dollars. ”