Nightmare on Minjungbal

A Development Application for  Nightcap on Minjungba l was refused by  Tweed Shire Council in May 2020 for several reasons, including lack of Council permission for road construction. A new request for permission to construct road access has been submitted by Nightcap Rural Land Sharing Communities Development .  The proposal requests permission for road works and earthworks to upgrade the access to the proposed development from Kyogle Road, with  associated road works, earthworks and vegetation removal over 11 stages. The current request is only for Stage 1 of the proposed development, requiring access to nine proposed " Rural Land Sharing Communities" with a total of 393 dwellings. Two further access roads connecting a total of 867 dwellings are proposed for future stages. The request will be discussed by  Tweed  Council in a meeting on September 17. Click HERE to read Tweed Shire Council Report. Concept Plan for Nightcap Village

Local opposition to Nightcap Village proposal, 2008 The first attempt to build a Village in an environmentally protected Tweed valley began in 2007 by l andowner Peter van Lieshout,  when his  wife, Joan van Lieshout was Tweed Mayor .  Despite a storm of local opposition,  development approval was granted  in 2009 .  However,  Peter van Lieshout  was unable to complete necessary infrastructure, the venture failed and development approval lapsed. Peter and Joan van Lieshout In 2006 Nimbin GoodTimes reported local opposition to a proposal for a "Village Community" in Tweed Valley:  "Nightcap Nightmare: Tweed "Village" proposal sounds alarm bells" .   The project was rebirthed in 2016, when Peter van Lieshout made shareholder agreements with Sovereignty Activists controlling a failed neighbouring venture, Bhula Bhula Village Community, that left purchase money creditors disenfranchised.  In collaboration with Peter van Lieshaupt, the ...

An Australian land-share venture that began in 2014 as  Bhula Bhula Village Community , is now marketed "Nightcap Village," "Nightcap on Minjungbal" and also as " Earth-Haven Sustainable Communities and Display Villages ". After the original founder,  Mark Darwin , withdrew from the project, other Sovereignty Activists with legal and financial control expanded the venture to greater heights of ambition, with greater depths of harm to their clamouring creditors. In 2016, the incipient intentional community at Mt Burrell  was exposed as an alleged fraud in local newspapers, on social media and in our blogs. In 2017,  Bhula Bhula  was expanded to 3,500 acres with addition of a neighbouring property owned by Peter van Lieshout.  The project, promoted by Tyler Tolman, was neatly rebranded as " Mt Warning Eco Village ," until mountains of warning from angry investors crying " fraud " triggered another name change to " Nightcap Village ...