Would be stupid to not allow festivals at the venue

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.

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.

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 ..

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 wish to strongly object the above proposal. for the following reasons.
1. Byron Shire residents should be making the decisions about
development proposals concerning the lands and waters of t Byron Shire
as was the case in the past. The community of like-minded people
concerned with ecologically sustainability is responsible for the
conservation of the outstanding natural beauty and amenity which
brings so many visitors here. These qualities are at risk with the
over- abundance of tourists already arriving without adding thousands
more by extended use of existing venue., Issues such as sewerage
overload threatening human hygiene with Festival flu, traffic
congestion, fire risk from fireworks, noise disturbance of the
surrounding area affecting both wildlife and the community have not
been addressed Furthermore Byron Shire Council receives only minimal
financial benefit from such an event. This must be viewed as
exploitation of residents' voluntary work and the work of Byron Shire
Council. Billinudgel Nature Reserve and Marshalls Ridge Wildlife
Corridor are North Byron Shires most state significant assets. With
species extinction in Australia reaching the globally highest rate,
self monitoring and self -reporting by consultants paid by the
proponent are clearly inadequate. Monitoring and reporting of the
findings MUST be independent. Finally, I can see no adevantage to
anyone but the propnent and perhaps their festival go-ers. The
proposal must be thrown out, withdrawn and trashed.

Overall, Hotel Brunswick has been very impressed with the organisation
that has been demonstrated by Falls Festival and Splendour In The
Grass over their tenure at North Byron Parklands. Firstly, I would
like to note that the two festivals have very differing affects on the
trade that takes place at our business operation through the duration
of each festival. The Hotel experiences its quietest weekend of the
year over the Splendour Festival, while Falls Festival provides some
of the busiest trade we experience throughout the year. The Hotel has
found that festival goes, as a whole, are an incredibly respectful,
friendly and easy going crowd. In addition, we have been incredibly
impressed with the organisers commitment to investing in the township
of Brunswick Heads throughout the duration of each festival. This is
demonstrated by providing budgets that see teams of local people
collecting rubbish, offering assistance and directions to visitors to
the town and keeping amenities clean and usable.

As a long term resident over 25 yrs i disagree with the proposed
permanent residency of the parklands festival site.. Residents should
have more recognition than the festival goers or people and companies
that make financial gains from this venture. Parklands has distributed
1000s of pamphlets to non residents that give easy pro submissions for
the festival site permanently. The influxof so many people to our
community is seriously detrimental to our beaches, parks,roads,car
parking and especially the government funded wild life corridor ! Not
to mention the revellers partying to all hours in our residential
areas. Parklands has already breached many compliances and appears not
to care , my noise complaint fell on deaf ears . But they reckon their
hired consultants monitor their activities. Ha. Parklands are trying
to avoid local government going through state government. This should
be under council control with input by residents. Parklands major
shareholder is an American company and should not be able to destroy a
quiet coastal community. Why are they wanting to increase their patron
numbers by so much . Appears to be greed to me and many others. Why
would they not share the existing blues festival site . Again it
appear to be greed. As for community donations , our local Billinudgel
hotel gives more to charity without creating any inconvenience to the
community. It seems to me another story of the rich getting richer
without any regard of their impact . Yours sincerely Mark Lofley

We wish to object to application MP09_0028 MOD 5 - Amendment to
administrative conditions (Concept Plan Modification). Our concern is
the increase in the traffic movements on Tweed Valley Way which will
impact our life. Currently we have two events per year at 32,500 and
25,000 which already impacts the weekends when the concerts are on.
With the new plan we could as many as five months a year affecting the
traffic on Tweed Valley Way and the Coast Road. The road is not
designed for the amount of traffic that is predicted to be coming to
our events. Even though coming and going of campers Is not encouraged
as stated it would only mean that more buses would be required. Buses
constantly come up and down the road dropping of patrons which affects
the traffic on Tweed Valley Road. The addition of a roundabout would
not ease the traffic flow as a lot of young people do not understand
how to use a roundabout. With the Conference centre it is noted that
150 guests conference guests would be accommodated. No mention is made
as to what accommodation facilities would be available. Our other
concern is if a medical emergency occurred say an outbreak of diarrhea
affecting only a small number of people say 100 (which is very small)
if you have 50,000 people at an event. Our local area does not have
the resources to attend to these people Ambulances would be utilized
instead of local people and taken to an overstretched Tweed Heads
Hospital or Byron Hospital. The trial has still caused problems with
illegal camping and pollution. With an increase in the number of
concerts there will be a much higher chance of a severe weather event
occurring while a concert is happening . We believe that there are in
adequate safety measures in place to evacuate 50,000 people and have
not been convinced that they have the ability to evacuate patrons if
an event occurred.

I object, I object,I object! As a rate paying resident, living right down
the road from this site, I should not need any other reasons.