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Latest news

Celebrating Australia Day in the Byron Shire

Published on 22 January 2019

Byron Shire Council will be celebrating the contribution and achievements of local residents at the Australia Day Awards presentation which will be held at 5:30pm on Friday 25 January at the Cavanbah Centre at Byron Bay.

Dunes at New Brighton beach are looking good

Published on 11 January 2019

Just over a year since major work was done to improve and stabilise sand dunes at New Brighton the benefits continue to be realised.

Sign up now to be involved in our new decision-making project

Published on 09 January 2019

People interested in Byron Shire Council, local issues and our community are asked to register to help build a Byron Model of representative, deliberative and trusted democracy.

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Public notices

Proposed lease - 1 Raftons Road Bangalow

On display until 07 February 2019

Council is proposing to lease part of Lot 38 DP 262183, (1 Raftons Road Bangalow), for a period of two successive five-year terms, to the Bangalow Community Children’s Centre for the purpose of early childhood education and care services.

Looking for owner of heifer calf

On display until 24 January 2019

Byron Shire Council is looking after a heifer calf that was found on Coorabell Rd, Federal on Friday, 21 December 2018. We have not been able to locate the owner.

The calf has an orange NLIS tag however we have been unable to obtain the data information. If this calf is yours, or if you know who owns it, call Byron Shire Council on 02 6626 7000 during office hours or 02 6622 7022 after hours.

Notice of compulsory acquisition of land: Local Government Act 1993

On display until 30 June 2019

Byron Shire Council declares with the approval of His Excellency the Governor that the land described in the Schedule below is acquired by compulsory process in accordance with the provisions of the Land Acquisition (Just Terms Compensation) Act 1991 for the Main Arm Rural Fire Brigade Station.

Dated at Mullumbimby this 14th day of January 2019.

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Community access points: All our documents on exhibition are available for review at the Council Administration Centre (Mullumbimby), Bangalow Post Office, Chincogan Real Estate Ocean Shores, Suffolk Beachfront Holiday Park and Brunswick Heads Library.

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