Report for 9/39-41 Lawson Street

Buyer's Guide to this Byron Bay Neighbourhood

Kay Wilkie has been living in Byron Bay since 1970 and serving the area since 1987.

Old fibro houses are being replaced with beautiful homes and accommodation

Byron Bay used to be a working town, it wasn’t full of beautiful old federation timber homes, there were a few here but the majority of the houses down close to town were little fibro workers cottages.

A lot of people are coming in and renovating those old homes, whether they were weatherboard or fibro, and are turning them into these amazing holiday destinations like the Atlantic and Byron Palms.

There's one I sold down Mitre 10 end, it was an old fibro house and he turned it into a timber, gorgeous property, all white and then bought the one next door and did the same thing there, and they were both just terrible old houses.

Development plans for the public pool and car park are causing unrest

The town's Mayor, Simon Richardson, said recently on the radio - “we are going to rid of the swimming pool and the front car park at the beach" - so they’re going to put shops or something there.

Which is absolutely outrageous, everybody’s complaining.

People are saying that it’s ridiculous, we’ve got the swimming pool with the best view in town but that's what Byron Bay is about now.

I was doing my car meter thing yesterday and this young woman was trying to put her money in to get a ticket and she said "I’ve just come back to Byron, I wish old Byron Bay was here" - it’s just sad.