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A TWEED SHIRE COUNCIL PUBLICATION | (02) 6670 2400 or 1300 292 872 | ISSUE 935 | 24 NOVEMBER 2015 | ISSN 1327–8630

Christmas Tree Competition

Brisbane Street nears completion

Council is due to complete drainage and roadworks in Brisbane Street, Murwillumbah, this week and reopen the street to two-way traffic if the dry weather holds.

The section of street between King and Prince streets was reopened last week after the pavement was sealed on Wednesday.

This week, the section between Prince and Condong streets will be sealed, the intersection at Condong Street will be constructed and some minor concrete works will be done weather permitting.

All works are expected to be complete by Friday and the entire street reopened to two-way traffic.

The upgrade has effectively removed a hump from the centre of the road, restoring a reasonable crossfall to the

street. Previously, motorists using the parallel parking on the eastern side of the street found it difficult to get in and out of their vehicles due to the extreme angle their cars came to rest at.

During the upgrade, larger stormwater pipes were installed increasing the capacity of the drainage system from Prince Lane to Lavender Creek and, again, boosting the resilience of Murwillumbah CBD to overland flooding.

New kerb and gutter was constructed on the eastern side of the street and pedestrian islands were installed near Prince and King streets to improve pedestrian safety.

The $700,000 upgrade began in July and was delayed by rain earlier this month.

Asphalting contractors complete the pavement between King and Condong streets.

Fine contenders for 2015 Access Award honours

Children under 12 who live in the Tweed will have the chance to make Christmas spirit come alive, thanks to the launch of the Christmas Tree Lights Competition this year.

The competition is being held in conjunction with the installation of two fully-decorated and LED-lit Christmas trees that will be on display this year at Jack Evans Boat Harbour in Tweed Heads and at the Kingscliff Lions Park, next to the surf club.

Two lucky winners will be announced at both locations – Tweed Heads and Kingscliff - on Friday 4 December at 7pm and the winners will get to ‘flick the switch’ and officially turn the tree lights on later in the evening between 8pm – 8.40pm.

So bring the family and the picnic rug and come down to either event for the inaugural tree lighting competition. The Kingscliff Lantern Markets will also be on from 5.30pm to 9.30pm.

Entry forms are available from Council offices at Tweed Heads and Murwillumbah and the Tweed Heads and Kingscliff Libraries up until 4pm on Friday 4 December. A number of Kingscliff local businesses also have entry forms.

On the night, entry forms can be dropped in the barrels at the main stage area at Jack Evans Boat Harbour or Kingscliff Lions Park between 5pm-7pm. Members of Council’s Community Engagement Network will be at both locations to talk about Tweed The Future is Ours project.

Entries are only open to residents of the Tweed Shire aged 12 years and under. Council would like to acknowledge the contribution from the Tweed Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Twin Towns and the Kingscliff and District Chamber of Commerce.

For more information call Council on (02) 6670 2400.

A self-taught film maker, a collision repair business and a tenpin bowling facility are just a few of the nominees for this year’s Tweed Shire Access and Inclusion Awards.

Twenty-seven nominees will be recognised for their efforts in access and inclusion, during the 2015 Tweed Shire Access and Inclusion Awards presentation ceremony at the Tweed Heads Civic Centre on Thursday 3 December.

This year’s ceremony will feature guest speakers Graeme Innes, one of Australia’s most high-profile champions for people with disability, and multiple world paratriathlon champion Bill Chaffey, as well as performances by the South Sea Islander Dancers and the La Fontanella Choir.

Council’s Aged and Disability Development Officer, Karen Collins, said each nominee had played a role in making the Tweed an accessible and inclusive place to live.

“The annual awards celebrate achievement and innovation in building an accessible community. They recognise and acknowledge action by individuals, community groups, organisations and businesses that build and promote an accessible and inclusive community for everyone in the Tweed,” she said.

For more information about the Tweed Shire Access and Inclusion Awards and the presentation ceremony visit www.tweed.nsw.gov.au/AccessInclusionAwards

Tickets to the Awards ceremony are free and a few seats remain. To book seats at the Awards ceremony or for further information, contact Karen Collins on (02) 6670 2442.

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COMMUNITY NOTICES

Tweed Unlimited Arts. Southern end of Pioneer Parade, Banora Point. 28-29 November - Art and Craft Xmas Sale 10am-4pm. Hamper raffles, demonstrations of pottery spinning and art. Lucky dips, Alpaccas on Saturday, Refreshments available, Phone (07) 5524 6223.

Waste Operations Officer (to 27 Nov 2016, full-time)Supervisor - Resource Recovery Centre (Permanent, full-time)The closing date for these positions is 12 noon sharp NSW time on Monday 7 December 2015.For more information and to apply:• Visit Council’s website www.tweed.nsw.gov.au/careers• Contact Human Resources on (02) 6670 2495

POSITIONS VACANT

DESTINATION TWEED - PROMOTE YOUR BUSINESS

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Council workers took to the water last week to repair a leaking joint in a sewer rising main beneath Boyds Bay Bridge at Tweed Heads.

The bracket securing the main to the bottom of the bridge gave way last Thursday, allowing the pipe to sag and the joint seal to break. Almost immediately, Council diverted the flow from the Tweed Heads to Banora Point main via an alternate route.

The broken joint was repaired early last week by crew working from both beneath and above the bridge deck.

Above the bridge deck, workers lowered a crane hook through an access point in the centre median strip so it could be attached to a chain fitted around the sagging pipe below deck by men working from a floating platform.

The pipe was then lifted slowly back into position and the broken bracket resecured.

Additional safety cables were fitted on the main at the high points beneath the bridge to guard against further breaks.

Phil Pritchard and Matt Matulovich secure a chain around the sagging pipe while working from a floating platform beneath the bridge.

Boyds Bay Sewer Break

Roads due to reopen weather permitting: Mistral Road, South Murwillumbah, at Dunbible Creek Bridge on Thursday; Brisbane Street, Murwillumbah, from Prince to Condong streets by Friday.Closures: one-day closure of Mistral Road, South Murwillumbah, at Dunbible Creek Bridge tomorrow (Wednesday 25 November).Some delays, stop / slow flagmen: Road rehabilitation works on Baromi Road, Kynnumboon; Brooks Road, Crystal Creek; Tumbulgum Road, north of Cane Road, Tygalgah.

This is Week 8* of the meter-reading cycle. Customers listed below can expect their bills by the end of Week 10 at the latest. Water meter reads this week:

• Murwillumbah – Barnby Estate (including William, Baker and Barnby Streets, Coral Fern Circuit)

• Banora Point and Chinderah – Flametree Park along Leisure Drive and Darlington Drive, south to Ash Drive; south of Terranora Road between M1 and Fraser Drive

• Terranora – North of Terranora Road and from Horseshoe Road west to Henry Lawson Drive and Eliza Fraser Court

* schedule can change due to weather

Week 8

YOUR WATER METER REMINDER

IN BRIEF

For over ten years, sand has moved between Letitia Spit and beaches on the southern Gold Coast with the assistance of the Tweed Sand Bypassing Project. To help the Project connect with local residents, beach users, surfers and the boating community in the future, we want to find out what you know, don’t know, and want to know, about the sand bypassing process. Take the five minute survey and go in the draw to win a GoPro Camera, at: www.tweedsandbypass.nsw.gov.au/survey or call the Project Office on 02 6620 5506 before 19 December 2015.

Wharf Street and Murwillumbah Street, Murwillumbah will be closed to traffic between Commercial Road and Brisbane Street Saturday 5 December 2015 from 2pm to 11pm. The alternative route is via Wollumbin Street. Please contact festival organiser Kerry Turner on 0401 871 096 or email kerry@tweedfoodiefest.com.au.

TWEED FOODIE FEST

ROAD WRAP-UP

Car park fees to be reinstatedFees to park on level 2 of the Murwillumbah multi-storey carpark off

Queen Street will be reinstated effective from Monday 7 December now that the Murwillumbah Street drainage works are complete.

Coupons to park in this secure undercover park are available from the cashier at Murwillumbah Civic Centre or the Tweed Regional Aquatic Centre at the following prices: Day: $2, Month: $36, Half year: $175, Yearly: $350

There are two reserved spaces available for yearly letting at a cost of $550. These spaces are marked as reserved with a name plate attached.

For more information, please contact Council on (02) 6670 2400.

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Stitches and Craft group member Noni Sutton, Acting Murwillumbah Library Branch Supervisor Michelle Harper, group members Mary Noble, Carolynn Poll, Ambassador for the Sri Sathya Sai Sanjeevani Hospital Frances Petrou and library group member Elsbeth Gartly.

A library group has been stitching a special link between Murwillumbah and India, creating homemade gifts for disadvantaged children who have undergone heart surgery.

Murwillumbah Library’s Stitches and Craft group has been hard at work knitting and crocheting items to donate to the Sri Sathya Sai Sanjeevani Hospital in India, an organisation that provides child heart care and surgeries free of cost.

Acting Murwillumbah Library Branch Supervisor Michelle Harper said the library was extremely pleased to have the group involved in such a worthwhile and supportive project.

Stitches and Craft member Carolynn Poll said locals donated the wool the group used to knit beanies, scarfs, booties, cardigans and blankets.

“We are happy to do the knitting and crocheting for a good cause. It makes it even better that it is also a social group, so we all get a lot of enjoyment out of it,” Ms Poll said.

Tweed resident Frances Petrou became an ambassador for the hospital after visiting India in May and has since liaised with a Stitches and Craft member. She will be delivering the items when she visits again in December.

“As soon as you walk into this hospital there is an atmosphere of total care. The child and parents are treated as royalty and everything is provided free of charge,” Ms Petrou said.

“Carers are also looked after with food and board for the entire duration of the treatment. Some of the parents I met had been waiting for eight or nine years for their child to have treatment, so you can imagine the atmosphere of gratitude and love that fills the hospital.

“The idea of the knitting project happened in September when Mr Sreenivas (from the Sri Sathya Sai Sanjeevani Hospital) was in Murwillumbah. We came up with the idea of giving a ‘gift of love’ with each certificate that was handed to the child when they were leaving called ‘gift of life’, which has a picture and the date of their operation,” she said.

“It is a wonderful project as we get a monthly newsletter from the hospital and you get a real sense of being part of something real, vital and energetic which gives such joy to both the children and the knitters.”

Everyone is welcome to come along to Stitches and Craft, which meets every Tuesday from 10am at Murwillumbah Library and also creates items for the Murwillumbah Community Centre and other organisations.

Library group knits strong bond with charity

CALL FOR NOMINATIONS - TWEED SHIRE AUSTRALIA DAY AWARDS

Do you know someone who should be nominated for a Tweed Shire Australia Day Award? Forms are available at Council offices and libraries and on Council’s website www.tweed.nsw.gov.au/australiaday Nominations close at 4.30pm Tuesday 1 December 2015.

INFORMATION ABOUT COUNCIL SUPPORT FOR SMALL COMMUNITY EVENTS Applications for financial assistance of up to $300 are invited from non-profit organisations and community groups that are interested in putting on small community events involving Tweed residents in celebrating Australia Day in their local communities on Tuesday 26 January 2016. Please read the information pack and complete the form on www.tweed.nsw.gov.au/australiaday For any more information please call Council on (02) 6670 2400 or 1300 292 872 or email tsc@tweed.nsw.gov.au

Retrofit has sewer system humming Council’s after hours team to sewer breakdowns is sleeping easier after the completion of a three-month project to refurbish Tumbulgum’s vacuum sewer system.

Council put bigger pumps into the village’s pump stations and duplicated a vacuum main to give the system more grunt. It also added telemetry to half the sewer pots (every four properties shares a pot) so that staff can now dial in remotely to investigate and fix breakdowns.

All up, Council invested $158,000 in the upgrade but expects to get that investment back within 18 months as the costs of maintenance, water and electricity will halve now that the system is ‘humming’.

Tumbulgum has the only vacuum sewer system in the shire and while it was installed in the 1990s, it was cheaper to refurbish it than replace it with typical gravity sewer or other technology.

“Vacuum systems are more complex than gravity sewer systems and Tumbulgum, in particular, was harder to manage,” Senior Water and Wastewater Engineer Peter Haywood explained. “They operate by sucking wastewater through in vapour form from a series of pots fitted with valves that open when the pot fills. The valves remain open after emptying to introduce a set amount of air into the system.”

Prior to the refurbishment, the Tumbulgum system vacuum would not handle wet weather.

“Every time it started to rain we would send our crews to Tumbulgum to open extra air inlets to give the system the best chance of surviving. We’d also have suck trucks there at the ready to empty the system.

“The system has had its first taste of wet weather in the past fortnight and it has passed with flying colours.”

The original pumps required water continuously circulating through them. The new pumps don’t require any water and Council already has noticed a large saving in that area.

While residents will notice no difference in the sewer service they receive, they may note the absence of Council workers checking pots in backyards.

The project required engineering, mechanical, electrical, technical and civil teams to work together on the complete retrofit. The majority of the work was completed in-house, with only the duplication of the main undertaken by contract pipe layers.

Right: The Tumbulgum Vacuum Sewer System

retrofit as good as new.

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DEVELOPMENT APPLICATION DETERMINATIONS

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REFUSED

DA15/0710 - Change of use of second level from dwelling and garage to a medical centre and construction of a lift Lot 6 Section 2DP 4043, No. 13 Beryl Street, Tweed Heads DA15/0742 - Conversion of boathouse to a combined boathouse and dwelling Lot 602 DP 1098619, Point Break Circuit, Kingscliff

The above development determinations are available for public inspection free of charge at the Planning and Regulation Division, Murwillumbah Civic Centre, during ordinary office hours

The following Development Application has been received by the Tweed Shire Council and may be viewed on Council’s DA Tracking site located at www.tweed.nsw.gov.au/datracking for a period of 14 days from Wednesday 25 November 2015 to Wednesday 9 December 2015.The proposal is not designated development and the Tweed Shire Council is the consent authority.

Applicant Location Proposal Application No.

Nbn CO Pty Ltd Lot 4 DP 554841; No. 429 Carool Road CAROOL

telecommunications facility (nbn fixed wireless) - 35m monopole and ancillary equipment

DA15/0951

Any person may, during the period specified above, make a submission in writing to Council in relation to the Development Application. Where a submission is in the form of an objection, then the grounds of objection are required to be specified. Any person may, during the above period, make a written submission to the General Manager of Council. It should also be noted that Council has adopted a policy whereby, on request, any submission including identifying particulars will be made public. Council will give consideration to the “Public Interest” and requests for confidentiality by submitters in determining access to submission letters. However, the provisions of the Government Information (Public Access) Act 2009 - GIPAA may result in confidential submissions being released to an applicant.Please Note- Requirements regarding Disclosure of Political Gifts and DonationsA disclosure is required to be made in a statement accompanying the relevant development or planning application by a person who makes the application. In addition, a person who makes a written submission either objecting to or supporting a relevant development or planning application must also make a disclosure if the person has made a reportable political donation.Disclosure forms are available on Councils’ website www.tweed.nsw.gov.au/PlanningInformation. Further information is available on the Department of Planning’s website www.planning.nsw.gov.au/donations.

DEVELOPMENT PROPOSAL FOR PUBLIC COMMENT

Notification of Development Application Determinations for the purposes of Section 101 of the Environmental Planning and Assessment Act, 1979 (as amended).

APPLICATION DETAILSAPPROVEDDA15/0443 - 2 lot subdivision Lot 2 DP 528642, No. 33-41 Hogans Road, Bilambil

DA15/0444 - Demolition of existing farm sheds and 7 lot residential subdivision in 3 stages Lot 1 DP 867486, No. 191 Cobaki Road, Cobaki

DA15/0582 - Demolition of existing dwelling and structures and construction of a residential flat building (nine units) Lot 89 DP 237806, No. 6 Florence Place, Tweed Heads

DA15/0605 - Construction of waste water treatment system associated with existing food processing factory Lot 2 DP 706061, No. 16 Quarry Road, South Murwillumbah

DA15/0709 - Advertising signage (tenancy 8) Lot 11 DP 1198266, No. 482 Casuarina Way, Casuarina

DA15/0713 - Addition of a coolroom to the existing Twin Towns complex Lot 1 DP 777183, No. 2 Wharf Street, Tweed Heads

DA15/0871 - Two lot strata subdivision Lot 62 DP 1186189, No. 323 Casuarina Way, Kingscliff

DA15/0892 - Two lot strata subdivision Lot 257 DP 1145129, No. 14 Somerville Circuit, Murwillumbah

DA15/0394 - Additions to existing dwelling Lot 7 DP 873343, No. 26 Pinegold Place, Nunderi

DA15/0603 - Carport and dwelling additions Lot 11 DP 789933, No. 6 Rosemount Court, Terranora

DA15/0695 - Two storey dwelling and in-ground pool Lot 73 DP 1208915, No. 9 Suncatcher Lane, Casuarina

DA15/0765 - Farm shed with shower and toilet Lot 1 DP 1047876, No. 354 Fernvale Road, Fernvale

DA15/0781 - Two storey dwelling with attached garage and retaining walls Lot 79 DP 864094, No. 32 Sassafras Street, Pottsville

DA15/0790 - Three bay shed Lot 20 Section 1DP 1223, Lot 21 Section 1DP 1223, No. 148-150 Riverside Drive, Tumbulgum

DA15/0800 - Dwelling alterations and additions including a gatehouse and a 1.8m high front fence Lot 10 Section 2DP 30148, No. 19 Dobbys Crescent, Terranora

DA15/0812 - Verandah Lot 5 Section 20DP 759012, No. 9 Cougal Street, Tyalgum

DA15/0824 - Two storey dwelling with attached double garage Lot 152 DP 1202149, No. 51 Seaside Drive, Kingscliff

DA15/0830 - Roof addition to existing dwelling Lot 529 DP 1076975, No. 24 Marsupial Drive, Pottsville

DA15/0842 - Deck extension Lot 75 DP 240965, No. 19 Viking Street, Kingscliff

DA15/0845 - Two storey dwelling with attached double garage Lot 179 DP 1201995, No. 1 Liriope Street, Casuarina

DA15/0849 - Dwelling with attached garage Lot 211 DP 1202098, No. 18 Central Park Lane, Casuarina

DA15/0850 - Dwelling additions Lot 455 DP 1144944, No. 4 Shearer Court, Terranora

RFO2015152 Panel of Providers for CCTV or 3D Camera work for Sewer Reticulation Offers close: Wednesday 4.00pm (DST) 9 December 2015.

Offers must be lodged as specified in the offer documentation.

Offer documentation is available at no charge from Council’s website at www.tweed.nsw.gov.au/tenders. Hard copy documentation is available and costs will be in accordance with Council’s advertised photocopying fees.

All offers will be opened at closing time and will be considered by Council in accordance with the provisions of the Local Government Act 1993 and the NSW Local Government (General) Regulation 2005. The lowest or any offer is not necessarily accepted and canvassing of Councillors or staff will disqualify.

For further information please contact Mr Sean Harvey (02) 6670 2606.

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