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Our most recent news:
25 November 2009
SPLENDOUR 10TH ANNIVERSARY AT WOODFORD
Splendour In The Grass has been working toward establishing a permanent sustainable event venue to stage the festival. The chosen 660 acre North Byron Parklands site at Yelgun in the Byron Shire is undergoing the comprehensive approval process with the NSW Department of Planning for a permanent cultural event venue and will not be ready for next year’s event.
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25 November 2009
Queensland Premier and Minister for the Arts
Premier Anna Bligh today announced a major music coup for Queensland – Splendour in the Grass is coming north across the border.
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1 September 2009
Splendour environmental outcomes 2009
The environmental initiativesimplemented at this year's Splendour in the Grass - covering greenhouse
gas emissions, diversion of waste to landfill and public environmental education - achieved better
outcomes than ever before.
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24 July 2009
NSW Government to decide North Byron Shire Parklands
The New South Wales government is to be the consent authority for an application by North Byron Shire Parklands to develop a permanent event venue on their site.
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26 June 2009
Billinudgel Nature Reserve Expands
The North Byron Shire Parklands team and the Department of Environment and Climate Change (DECC) have been planning the voluntary dedication of important land which will result in the expansion of the Billinudgel Nature Reserve by over 35 hectares.
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25 May 2009
Environmental Justice
Published in the Byron Shire Echo 19 May and the Byron Shire News 21 May.
Over two years ago I came to work with North Byron Shire Parklands, to both manage the proposed event site and to develop innovative environmental solutions which addressed the past and present environmental degradation across the 255 hectare Yelgun site.
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25 May 2009
Parklands Progressing
North Byron Shire Parklands is soon to meet with Byron Shire Council to discuss options for going forward following the Land and Environment Court decision.
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7 May 2009
Parklands Presses On
In yesterday’s Land and Environment Court decision regarding a trial event at North Byron Shire Parklands, Justice Brian Preston revoked Byron Shire Council’s approval for the trial event.
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26 March 2009
Splendour in the Grass will return to Belongil Fields this year for its ninth festival.”
“Due to time constraints caused by the Land and Environment Court process and the time required to prepare the North Byron Shire Parklands site should a positive outcome be achieved, Splendour organisers have moved ahead with their planning for 2009” said General Manager of North Byron Shire Parklands Mat Morris. “We hope to be able to host the festival as a trial event at North Byron Shire Parklands in 2010”.
Background
In July 2008 the Byron Shire Council granted consent to conduct a one off trial event at the North Byron Shire Parklands site at Yelgun. Council’s decision was then challenged in the Land and Environment Court by the group Conservation of North Ocean Shores Inc (CONOS).
On 6 May 2009 Justice Brian Preston found fault with Council’s technical processing of the application and revoked Byron Shire Council’s approval for the trial event. He said that Council should have issued consent for both use of roads and a place of assembly, whereas they only issued consent for a place of assembly.
