Nominees seek a say on hospital

TWENTY-SEVEN people have nominated themselves to help Tweed Shire Council advise on where the New South Wales Government will build the new $534 million hospital.

The government had original planned on building it on a sweet potato farm at Cudgen.

However, after community outrage it opened up another expression of interest phase giving people six weeks to propose an alternative site to the one that took the government 10 months to find.

Health Infrastructure also allowed the council to form the Tweed Shire Council Reference Group, consisting of councillors and planning experts.

That group doesn’t have any community members within it so there is a Community Reference Group to help advise the council’s group.

The council has called for an extraordinary meeting today to decide if all of those nominees will be in the group, some, or to scrap it.

The Tweed Daily News will hold a community forum about the hospital controversy on Monday.

The meeting, hosted by Daily News editor Nikki Todd, will take place from 5-7pm at Tweed Heads Civic Centre.