The body overseeing the region's flood recovery says the scheme is 'oversubscribed', with more than 8,000 applications made for assistance. Although there is an 'enormous' amount of work to do, the first offers are set to be made next week.
, a public meeting has been told that only 25 homes have properly assessed for potential buybacks so far.The body overseeing flood recovery in the Northern Rivers says the buyback scheme is "oversubscribed"
About 100 people attended the event at Woodburn, which was organised by the Northern Rivers Flood Action Group. "But the corporation has not helped, because they didn't come on board early enough and now communication is so poor." "We've got an enormous program of work ahead of us — we're underway with that and I think over the next few weeks and months things will really start to accelerate.""If you're only doing 25 now and you've got [thousands more], what's your time line here?" she said."The figures just don't add up … there's still a lot up in the air."Woodburn man Ken Morrison left the meeting in a pessimistic mood.
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