Nowhere to go: NSW caravan park residents in the dark about proposed ban of permanent stays

Johnny Tierney has lived at the Hibiscus Gardens caravan park in NSW’s northern rivers for 17 years. Photograph: Natalie Grono/The Guardian

If he couldn’t keep living in the Hibiscus Gardens caravan park, in the shadow of Ballina’s famous Big Prawn, Johnny Tierney would be staying in his car or a tent.

He’s rented a caravan at the park in the New South Wales northern rivers for 17 years. Tierney’s been flooded twice this year, and can’t afford to rent elsewhere if that was no longer an option.