TODAY is D day for the dog-racing industry on the Tweed.

Tweed Shire councillors are this afternoon scheduled to make a decision on whether to approve a controversial $5.6 million greyhound-racing complex at South Murwillumbah which would replace the Border Park Raceway track at Tweed Heads.

Council planners are recommending they give it the green light despite dozens of objections and plans by opponents of the greyhound racing industry to hold a protest at the council chambers this afternoon.

In a report on the proposed development, council staff have dismissed animal welfare concerns, saying that is not a planning issue for the council.

The development application says the proposed new complex in Lundberg Drive, South Murwillumbah would be on 4.95 hectares owned by Industry Central estate developer, Tweed Central Pty Ltd and partly by the council.

It predicts during construction “100 direct full-time equivalent employment positions will be created”, lasting up to a year.

Council staff said they had received 67 submissions during the exhibition period, and 15 after the advertised period, all objecting to the application

“A petition containing 1219 signatures was also received... objecting,” the report said.

“The main issue raised in the objections was the animal welfare concerns of the operation of the greyhound industry (breeding and destroying of greyhounds).”

The report said the complex would operate in accordance with the Greyhound Racing Act 2009 enforced by the NSW Office of Liquor, Gaming and Racing.

President of the Tweed-based group Friends of the Hound Lisa White said her members had been rescuing and finding new homes for greyhounds for eight years.

She wanted to stop the racing complex because she was “sick and tired of acting as a bandaid for this ruthless industry”.

She said the industry viewed dogs as commercial commodities and discarded them “as easily and as quickly as they breed them”.

She called on supporters to join her and others in a protest at the council chambers this afternoon.

“This is our last-ditch effort to prove to our councillors that we don't want this track,” Ms White said.

“Our community cares more about animals and less about gambling, and no longer condones this archaic, embarrassing pastime.”