Welcome, this is a website dedicated to protecting one of the last intact Wallum ecosystems in the Byron Shire by sharing an alternative viewpoint to developers spin. While Clarence Property markets the final stages of its Bayside Brunswick Heads development as paradise, we see it for what it really is: a threat to biodiversity and community values.

Because bulldozing biodiversity isn’t a lifestyle choice—it’s an extinction plan.

Young child drawing with chalk on wooden fence, wearing floral outfit and standing barefoot on grass.

Their paradise comes with a sales pitch. Ours comes with frogs, trees, and a responsibility to protect.

Wallum is Not Just “Land”

From the air, this coastal heathland might look like “just a field.” But on the ground, it’s a vibrant, living world. Endangered frogs, rare orchids, and ancient melaleucas call this place home. Once gone, it’s gone forever.

“Coastal development in Australia has destroyed more of these beautiful pristine environments than any other of our impacts since 1788. It’s got to stop, and in an intact wonderland like here at Wallum is where it must stop.”

— Bob Brown visiting Wallum Bayside Brunswick Heads (9 August 2024)

What is Bayside? And who is Clarence Property?

Image: Promoting Bayside Brunswick in local newspaper, Byron News, in mid 1990’s.

Bayside Brunswick is a mini suburb located south of the main town of Brunswick Heads in the Byron Shire, NSW.

The first house in Bayside was build in the mid 1980’s on the main road that enters the estate, Bayside Way. The mid 1990’s is when most of the first houses were built and it was also then the Brunswick Community Preschool relocated to Bayside.

Fast forward to 2025, the “Wallum” housing development located at the back of Bayside was rebranded to Bayside Brunswick Heads by Clarence Property after extensive protest to the development. The current residential development by Clarence Property (a company behind large-scale developments across Northern NSW like Epiq Lennox and Casuarina Beach) has approval for 123 residential lots and medium-density housing.

Bayside

Our approach

We’d rather protect the whole paradise—not parcel it into lots, raise it with fill and pave over endangered habitat.

“Extend Bayside?” No Thanks. This is Wallum. And It Belongs to Nature.

We don’t want “serene bushland aspects” behind fences.
We want real preservation, not promotion. 

This is not a protest—it’s a protection plan.

  • A person with curly hair, wearing glasses and a striped shirt, smiling indoors.

    “They promise paradise. We say it’s already here—and under threat.”

    Gloria Blackcockatoo

  • Man with glasses and beard wearing a dark sweater, looking off to the side.

    “Paradise doesn’t need landscaping. It needs protection.”

    Mitch Rainforest

  • Smiling person with black hair against a leafy background.

    "Community already exists here — and it has fur, feathers & deep roots."

    Fern Wallington

  • Smiling man in a white t-shirt with a neutral background.

    “Transformation? Turning rare natural landscapes into a developer’s dreamland.”

    Sid Scribbly

Look Closer. Act Now.

Clarence Property’s Bayside Brunswick development might sound appealing on paper. But when you look closer, you’ll see the truth behind the branding.

Get the facts.