Roads & transport · Ballina Shire Council
Roadside grazing, signs and bin services face public review after Ballina policy votes
Ballina Shire Council adopted four service policies, including amended rules for backflow prevention and kerbside bin entitlements, but each must still go on exhibition.
Reporting from public council minutes. How this article was prepared
Landholders, businesses seeking roadside signs and households using kerbside collection are among those who could be affected by four Ballina Shire Council policies adopted unanimously on 22 October, with each still required to undergo public exhibition.
The policies cover grazing on road reserves, containment backflow prevention, local directional signage within road reserves, and kerbside bin entitlement and service. Council adopted the backflow, signage and bin policies in amended form. It also resolved to exhibit all four policies and consider submissions.
For the grazing, signage and bin policies, the resolutions say submissions are to be reported back to Council. If none are received, no further action is required. The backflow policy is to be reported back if submissions are received, with no further action required otherwise.
The public minutes do not state what has changed in the amended policies. They also do not give exhibition dates, an implementation date, fees, bin allocations, grazing conditions, backflow requirements or sign-approval details. Those points remain unresolved for people who may need to respond to the exhibition process.
The four votes were unanimous. No separate cost or funding allocation is recorded in the resolutions.
What deserves a closer look
The resolutions adopt the policies while retaining a public exhibition and submissions process.
The minutes do not set out the policy wording or identify the practical changes to grazing, backflow prevention, signage or bin services.
The cited resolutions do not record exhibition dates, an implementation date or a separate cost or funding allocation.
Questions for follow-up reporting
When will each policy be exhibited, and what submission process will be available?
What changes do the amended backflow prevention, signage and kerbside bin policies make compared with the previous versions?
Will the policies alter bin entitlements, application requirements, compliance obligations or fees?
What happens next
Council is to publicly exhibit the Grazing on Road Reserves Policy and consider submissions received.
Council is to publicly exhibit the amended Containment Backflow Prevention Policy and report submissions back if received.
Council is to publicly exhibit the amended Local Directional Signage within Road Reserves Policy and consider submissions received.
Council is to publicly exhibit the amended Kerbside Bin Entitlement and Service Policy and consider submissions received.
Check the record
These passages were matched to the source text. Read them in context in the original minutes.
Council adopted the Grazing on Road Reserves Policy and resolved to place it on public exhibition.
FOR VOTE - All Councillors voted unanimously. 10.4 Policy (Review) - Grazing on Road Reserves 221026/26 RESOLVED (Cr Simon Chate/Cr Eva Ramsey) 1. That Council adopts the Grazing on Road Reserves Policy, as per Attachment 1 to this report.
Item 10.4, resolution 221026/26
Open original minutes ↗Council adopted the amended Containment Backflow Prevention Policy and resolved to place it on public exhibition.
FOR VOTE - All Councillors voted unanimously. 10.5 Policy (Review) - Containment Backflow Prevention 221026/27 RESOLVED (Cr Therese Crollick/Cr Michelle Bailey) 1. That Council adopts the amended Containment Backflow Prevention Policy, as per Attachment 1 to this report.
Item 10.5, resolution 221026/27
Open original minutes ↗Council adopted the amended Local Directional Signage within Road Reserves Policy and resolved to place it on public exhibition.
MAYOR 10.6 Policy (Review) - Local Directional Signage within Road Reserves 221026/28 RESOLVED (Cr Simon Chate/Cr Therese Crollick) 1. That Council adopts the amended Local Directional Signage within Road Reserves Policy, as per Attachment to this report.
Item 10.6, resolution 221026/28
Open original minutes ↗Council adopted the amended Kerbside Bin Entitlement and Service Policy and resolved to place it on public exhibition.
FOR VOTE - All Councillors voted unanimously. 10.7 Policy (Review) - Kerbside Bin Entitlement and Service 221026/29 RESOLVED (Cr Therese Crollick/Cr Michelle Bailey) 1. That Council adopts the amended Kerbside Bin Entitlement and Service Policy, as per Attachment 1 to this report.
Item 10.7, resolution 221026/29
Open original minutes ↗The recorded votes on all four policy resolutions were unanimous.
2. That Council place this policy on exhibition for public comment, with any submissions received to be resubmitted back to Council. If no submissions are received, then no further action is required.
End of Item 10.7 resolution and vote; corresponding unanimous vote passages follow Items 10.4 to 10.6
Open original minutes ↗Source record
Ballina Shire Council, minutes of the ordinary meeting held on 22 October 2026. This report is based on the council's public minutes; no independent reporting or verification was undertaken.
Key facts from the minutes
- Council adopted the Grazing on Road Reserves Policy and resolved to exhibit it for public comment.
- Council adopted an amended Containment Backflow Prevention Policy and resolved to exhibit it, with submissions to return to council.
- Council adopted an amended Local Directional Signage within Road Reserves Policy and resolved to exhibit it.
- Council adopted an amended Kerbside Bin Entitlement and Service Policy and resolved to exhibit it.
- The recorded votes on all four policies were unanimous; the minutes give no implementation date or cost.
Why it matters
- The policies cover roadside land use, local directional signage, containment backflow prevention and household bin services across Ballina Shire. The minutes establish the policy decisions and public-comment process, but not the practical changes or when they may apply.