Activists were fighting to stop work at the Wallum housing development site, which is bound by a tract of coastal heathland.Police have arrested a number of protesters fighting to block a housing development at Brunswick Heads in northern New South Wales.
The site is bound by a tract of coastal heathland that is home to vulnerable and endangered species including the glossy black cockatoo, koalas and the Wallum sedge frog. Clarence Property bought the site in 2021, and a public exhibition period for the current proposal was held that same year and approved by the state government's Northern Regional Planning Panel.
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