A COMMUNITY group that has been fighting plans for a controversial caravan park on prime seaside land at Cabarita Beach has called on Tweed councillors to finally put a stop to the proposal.

The call came as councillors prepared to meet behind closed doors with government officials to nut out a response to growing community anger expressed in more than 300 public submissions on the proposal.

Councillors acting as members of the Tweed Coast Holiday Parks Reserves Trust, which runs council caravan parks, are understood to be due to discuss the controversial plans with officials from the NSW Land and Property Management Authority.

A proposal by the two organisations for a huge caravan park on the beachfront and a large residential housing estate also on crown land has angered Cabarita Beach and Bogangar residents and last year led to an unseemly legal stoush.

The then president of the Cabarita Beach/Bogangar Residents Association stood down citing stress after council solicitors pursued her and others over the receipt of secret plans for the caravan park, which arrived on her doorstep in a plain envelope.

Yesterday a spokesman for the association, Ashley Baldry, said he understood the councillors would meet this week to discuss a report on submissions against the development.

“After more than 12 years of pushing this caravan park development, it should now be obvious to Tweed Shire Council that there is not only overwhelming community opposition to a caravan park on this environmentally-sensitive dunal system, but that there is no significant support for this project either,” Mr Baldry said.

“The residents’ association is calling on the Tweed Shire Council to finally put a stop to this ill-conceived development and instead work constructively with the Cabarita Beach/Bogangar community to create more sustainable alternatives.”

Mr Baldry said the association had requested a copy of the report and for the individual submissions to be made public.