Operation Sports Fields Lot 107 Shara Boulevarde, North Ocean Shores
What
has happened in the past to get
to
this outrageous situation ?
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on aerial map to access details of the location of Lot 107
1. click here for
line map of lot 107
2.
click here for aerial photo of Yelgun
Now follow the paper trail...
March
11, 1997
Byron Shires Council's ordinary meeting of March 11, 1997
which endorses
the view of Lot 107 as low environmental qualities, the same as the
Hon Morris Iemma's letter to Don Page in 2000.
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May
29, 1997
Copy of file note of the RTA meeting with Greens group.
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May
6, 1999
Memo to Cr Tucker from the then General Manager which mentions a meeting
between Council and RTA as far back as May 1997 which "compensation
package".
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May
11, 1999
Restricted non public meeting between RTA and several environmental
groups at Byron Bay. (Request for the identities of all persons
attending this meeting have been to date denied by the RTA please see
document identifying some of the attendees)
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February
12, 1999
The RTA's confirmation of the purchase of this land Lot
107 for a sporting field dated February 12, 1999.
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October
12, 2000
Local Member for Ballina Mr Don Page receives a letter
from Minister
for Public Works and Services The Hon Morris Iemma MP re the
Lot 107's environmental facility.
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April
10, 2004
The letter from the then General manager Mr Max Eastcott
in the local
paper April 10, 2004 which conveys the hurt being suffered by the Ocean
Shores community.
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August
24, 2005
News Article in the Northern Star re the ongoing battle with Council
over the sports fields.
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August
29, 2005
The alternative site now being put to the community by the Council.
click here for OSCA meeting held August 29, 2005
NB. The RTA held NO meetings with the affected community of Ocean Shores residents regarding compensatory habitat or loss of their sporting fields.
TIMELINE of Events
1993
Council begins search for
Sports Field
1995
IPO 12 month
Investigation found no environment significance
with Lot 107
1996
Council purchased
Lot 107 for
Sports Fields
1997
Secret meetings between RTA, BEACON & Greens Caldera Env. Centre
1999
RTA special meeting with
environmentalists, ecologists and other unnamed, unidentified persons
at Byron Bay
2004
Resolution
04-880
2005
Confidential Meetings BVSA, OSCA and Council
2005
OSCA inc. Resolved
Report No 13.13 05-596
Where to NOW !
Lot
102 Yelgun
Conditions of Purchase
Follow
up from
Meeting at Council
7/9/05 at 5.30pm
Yelgun
Lot 102
Location
Photo
OSCA & BVSA at
Billinudgel Hotel
18/9/05
BVSA
Presidents
Meeting
13/10/05
PRESS RELEASE
THE
FACTS Researched by
Frank Mills OAM
Chairman of OSCA Inc.
Committee Representative for BV Historical Society
Representative on the Abi Group - Member of the Heritage Management Plan
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Supported
by OSCA
Ocean Shores
Community Association Inc.
"Let our kids have their own
sports fields !"
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