North Byron Parklands - Cultural Events Site

Trial approval has brought tens of thousands of festival-govers to an
area without safe evaculation prospects, causing problems with
noise,traffic,illgal camping,pollution and inicreased fire and flood
risks. Permanent approval will make these issues permanent and more
serious as the size,number,and duration of festivals increase. The
ecological impacts on the nearby Nature Reserve and Wildlife Corridor
have not been properly asssessed by the developers,the state,or local
council. Wildlife has no where to go.

I think the North Byron Parklands has been great for the area .. They
improved the site each year .. we live close and they have always been
more then helpful with any of our concerns .. it's been good for local
businesses and they employed a lot of local people ..

Finally closure on what will be one of Australia's premium eco friendly
entertainment venues .This venue of critical infrastructure is a much
needed employment and financial gain for Byron ocean shores Brunswick
new Brighton south golden yelgun SHIRE.Our property is located 1km
north west of north Byron parklands tweed valley way .Traffic
transport and sound was controlled superbly and will only get better
with permanent residency. It will also create oportunities for the
creation of small eco friendly businesses to flourish in an area that
lacks in job opportunities an transport.Unemployment boredom and
overpopulated perment residencies and minority groups have created
more permenant carnage transport pollution and environmental problems
than north Byron parklands ever will. Govett Farm supporters of North
Byron parklands and its future growth.

Have been involved in attempting to preserve this last wildlife corridor
to the coast as a citizen and councillor since 1990. It was once
protected by numerous studies and state rulings. Its status as a an
environmental and native heritage area has been gradually eroded by
big money and state ignorance and collusion. This application will
finally kill it off for ever.

Would be stupid to not allow festivals at the venue

Falls should stay in Byron bay

Supports the local economy and provides me with event experience for my
future

please see attached objection

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Many economic changes which occur are not aimed at improving overall
benefit for the population, but are the result of corporations cutting
costs and increasing profits. This is the background to the rise of
massive, industrial-scale entertainment festivals like those operated
by Live Nation and North Byron Parklands (NBP). They are not driven by
the musicians or audience, but by the big music promoters. The
dominant corporations are in the process of globalising and
mechanising the music industry, which ultimately leads to less choice
for audiences, and less work for musicians. These large festivals
create nothing and simply poach their audiences from other venues. The
timing of the Falls festival to coincide with New Year's Eve simply
allows them to draw in revellers and holiday-makers who would
otherwise be drinking and spending elsewhere. New Year's Eve was
formerly a profitable period for pubs and clubs, which helped carry
them through the lean times. Not any more. Now every time one of these
festivals is held, another pub or club in regional Australia closes
its doors. So when Live Nation and NBP claim to be bringing $13
million into Byron Shire, they neglect to mention that the same amount
leaves other shires and municipalities. This figure comes from a
report which NBP commissioned and paid for. The real figure could be
much less. So while festival attendees may spend up to $1K each, much
of this is pocketed by Live Nation and repatriated to America, leaving
Australia poorer by the same amount. They pay no tax in Australia.
Since these attendees are almost entirely in the 16-25 age group who
typically spend 100% of their income, directing their spending towards
one sector of the economy necessarily means less is spent in another
sector. In other words, the $13 million (or 8 million, or whatever it
is) would still have been spent even if there were no festivals, and
would show up in other parts of the economy. Before NBP and Live
Nation came along, the land was productive agricultural land producing
cattle and sugar. The owners were continually investing; they were
paying more tax than Live Nation does, and paid rural rates, just like
NBP does. By contrast, these festivals are bad neighbours. They are
not appropriate development outside of an industrial area, and the
developers deliberately understate the problems of noise, traffic,
litter, anti-social behaviour, and the strain on local infrastructure.
NBP commissioned an 'Economic Impact Report' which purports to show
that the events are an economic success. The Report is extremely
biased and a full analysis is attached. Please read it. NBP has
received preferential treatment regarding planning, liquor licenses,
noise, lack of regulatory supervision, environmental breaches,
traffic, etc. This has made it difficult for normal businesses who
don't receive such largesse to compete. There have been significant
losses among local businesses as a result. These are analysed in the
second of the two attachments. Please read it.

Please see attachment. 1) Personally my biggest concern if flooding. I
live in Wooyung Rd. That road was cut off in last April's flood on two
sections. No one from the festival would have been able to get out
through the northern side of Parklands for 4 days! Even worse, the
front carpark (facing Yelgun) floods first, therefore when it gets bad
there is no escape through the front door either! In this flood the 2
m marker on Wooyung rd was under water and the water was moving fast.
??? I have pics but can't send them as pdf. Contact me if you want to
see them. People could get hurt in all the barb wire fences (cow
padocks) or worse drown! A 1000 gallon water tank was swept onto the
fence of Wooyung rd. during this flood. Peoples equipment and
belongings would have been rendered dysfunctional and spread over a
huge area. What about all the sewage if it floods during a festival?
2) Sewage is to be buried or sprayed on the Parklands site, which
straddles two water catchments. Both tactics carry risks of
contamination of ground water and surface water that will affect
nearby residential areas and the Nature Reserve. On-site land
formations and frequent site flooding both present major challenges to
the planned disposal of effluent on site. Also, no provision is made
for dealing with inorganic matter in the waste stream, e.g., sanitary
products, plastics, etc., or for treating chemicals that become part
of the waste stream, e.g., prescription drugs, over-the-counter drugs,
and other unmetabolised chemicals. And it's not clear if UV light or
chlorine will be used to disinfect the waste and if the process will
be fully effective. Parklands says they will implement their sewage
treatment plans "progressively as budget allows" although a complete
sewage treatment system was supposed to be in place by the end of
2017. So they're not yet prepared to handle the sewage they generate.
What they can't treat on site will have to be trucked to overloaded
sewage treatment plants in Byron Shire or elsewhere. This is not
responsible management. 3) Recurring issues include noise, traffic,
impacts on the environment, impacts on local infrastructure (roads,
water, sewer systems) and impacts on residential amenity and health.
Fire risks continue to be great, especially since the festivals have
numerous bonfires and are located in a fire-prone area. Problems have
arisen repeatedly throughout the trial, many unpredictable, e.g., the
on-site traffic nightmares at Splendour 2016, recurring outbreaks of
"festival flu", unpredictable noise disturbance throughout the area,
and repeated illegal use of fireworks on the site. During Falls
Festival the whole shire is already overloaded with tourists. The
festival puts extra strain on roads, accommodation, transport and
services in the highest tourist season. That does not make sense. 4)
Byron Council, in consultation with local residents and business
owners, should be determining the shire's destiny--not the state
government. 5) No independent analysis has been done that objectively
weighs the purported benefits of the festivals against the costs to
the community. The Economic Benefits Report, Appendix W in the
proposal, was generated by a Parklands-paid consultant. The report is
presented "without the assumption of a duty of care to any other
person other than the client [Parklands]" and the report further
cautions any third party from "using or relying on the facts, content,
opinions or subject matter" in the report. Experts in assessing
economic costs and benefits have described the report as incomplete,
inaccurate, and misleading. 6) The two major festivals staged on the
site are 51% owned by Live Nation, an American entertainment
conglomerate. Permanent approval of this proposal will put profits
generated at Parklands into the hands of that conglomerate, an entity
that is not answerable to elected officials or local residents. 7)
Billinudgel Nature Reserve and Marshalls Ridge Wildlife Corridor, into
which NSW has invested millions of dollars over decades, are the most
state significant assets in the north of Byron Shire. Approval of this
proposal will permanently change the nature of this
ecologically-significant area--for the worse. The state should not
have been approved festivals at Parklands to begin with. They now have
a chance to correct that earlier mistake.

I strongly object to DA proposal by NORTH BYRON PARKLANDS, I object to
the size and scale of the changes they wish to make to the site in
regards to the patron numbers and the buildings they want to build. I
object that this has been taken out of the local government hands and
that a multinational company from the USA is proposing excessive over
development of the site in the nature of building a conference centre
& permanent bar. These are greedy and unnecessary additions for music
festivals, and will be of VERY limited benefit to the people who live
in the shire. We want people to live here not just come to make money
from the shires assets.

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