Commonsense has prevailed in a situation that involved the Lismore City Bowling Club, Skimmo's Food Van and Lismore City Council this week.

Lismore City Council (LCC) is often blamed for being too rigid when it comes to compliance but under new General Manager Jon Gibbons, there has been a change of attitude, where council works with people and businesses to find a solution.

As has been well documented on the Lismore App, the Lismore City Bowling Club has had a horror run since the big flood last year destroyed the 107-year-old building and thieves broke in four times causing even more damage that the club could not afford.

The City Bowlo has been running without a kitchen since it reopened just over a year ago and as you can imagine, the cost of putting an industrial kitchen is prohibitive at this stage of the recovery when your main aim is to earn enough revenue to stay afloat.

(The flood damaged commercial kitchen at the Lismore City Bowling Club last November)

The problem for the City Bowlo is feeding people when they hold large events, such as this Saturday's hospital party for 70. Regular events keep the money coming in the door.

Mark Pepper from the City Bowlo told the Lismore App that this Saturday's event should put $5-6,000 in the bank.

An amount they nearly lost when Lismore City Council staff issued a message to the owners of Skimmo's Food Van Tracey and Michael Mackney asking them to not place their food van in its regular place in the car parking area near the Lismore Regional Museum. The land is crown land so owned by the NSW Government.

"Food trucks are not permitted to operate from Council owned or Managed Public Land at this stage."

Tracey and Michael said they had been using that spot after 5pm when the City Bowlo had an event for the last sixteen (16) weeks.

(Skimmo's Food Van in front of the Lismore Regional Museum with the Lismore City Bowling Club in the background)

Negotiations between the three parties began on Wednesday with a solution looking likely.

LCC released this statement late yesterday:

"Lismore City Council has been actively working with the Lismore City Bowling Club and Skimmo's Food Van to resolve this issue. We hope to have a successful resolution soon."

The Lismore App believes that this involves the City Bowlo lodging an event application for six months so the Skimmo's Food Van can then be placed on council land adjacent to the Lismore Baths as per the blue circle on the diagram below.

What could have been a disastrous stand-off looks to have a happy ending so Lismore can continue to rebuild and Lismore City Council 'Back's Lismore' as their advertising campaign says.