A FORMER Noosa backpackers’ hostel owner said short-term accommodation (STA) providers should be assessed as businesses, to provide a more level playing field amongst different types of tourist accommodation. Warick Redwood, who until recently operated the 50-bed Flashpackers hostel in
A GRANT application from Noosa Chamber of Commerce has been approved by Noosa councillors – but only after a last-minute amendment to ensure transparency was inserted. The application, for $30,000 from council’s Economic Development Grants funding triggered the requirement for
THERE are three certainties in life: death, taxes – and change. We tend to resist change because it represents the unknown, something we can’t control, and it takes us out of our comfort zones. In every local government area there
The impact of ‘people power’ was in stark evidence on Tuesday at Noosa Council chambers when a unique local produce and coffee outlet located outside Cooroy was given a reprieve. A retrospective application by Bus Stop Espresso, operating under ‘roadside
AN APPLICATION for a material change of use (MCU) for a popular coffee vendor/local produce outlet on Cooroy’s town fringe has received qualified support from Noosa councillors, despite a staff recommendation to refuse it. Bus Stop Espresso on Mary River
A development application lodged by two Noosa Council workers has been recommended for refusal by council planning staff – because it doesn’t meet Noosa Plan standards. A draft application to build eight units across two empty lots in Tewantin’s Toolar
A NOOSA Heads property lot which carries significant biodiversity values and has been carefully tended by neighbours over many years, will no longer be considered as a site for social or affordable housing. And Deputy Mayor Frank Wilkie pointed out
NOOSA Lakes Resort in Tewantin’s Hilton Terrace is set to receive a facelift and become a small hub for “business tourism”. The resort currently houses a conference centre, 94 units and a surf museum which is extensively used for community
WHILE most Noosa Council Ordinary Meetings (OM) are primarily rubber-stampings of decisions voted in the previous Monday’s General Committee (GC), there can at times be extended debate on seemingly unresolved issues. An item in the GC of January 20 concerned
AN APPLICATION to gain short-term accommodation (STA) status for two units in a dual-occupancy property in Noosa Heads has been narrowly voted down at Noosa Council. The Angler St site, off Viewland Drive, sits in a medium-density residential neighbourhood that
A FORMER Noosa backpackers’ hostel owner said short-term accommodation (STA) providers should be assessed as businesses, to provide a more level playing field amongst different types of tourist accommodation. Warick Redwood, who until recently operated the 50-bed Flashpackers hostel in
A GRANT application from Noosa Chamber of Commerce has been approved by Noosa councillors – but only after a last-minute amendment to ensure transparency was inserted. The application, for $30,000 from council’s Economic Development Grants funding triggered the requirement for
THERE are three certainties in life: death, taxes – and change. We tend to resist change because it represents the unknown, something we can’t control, and it takes us out of our comfort zones. In every local government area there
The impact of ‘people power’ was in stark evidence on Tuesday at Noosa Council chambers when a unique local produce and coffee outlet located outside Cooroy was given a reprieve. A retrospective application by Bus Stop Espresso, operating under ‘roadside
AN APPLICATION for a material change of use (MCU) for a popular coffee vendor/local produce outlet on Cooroy’s town fringe has received qualified support from Noosa councillors, despite a staff recommendation to refuse it. Bus Stop Espresso on Mary River
A development application lodged by two Noosa Council workers has been recommended for refusal by council planning staff – because it doesn’t meet Noosa Plan standards. A draft application to build eight units across two empty lots in Tewantin’s Toolar
A NOOSA Heads property lot which carries significant biodiversity values and has been carefully tended by neighbours over many years, will no longer be considered as a site for social or affordable housing. And Deputy Mayor Frank Wilkie pointed out
NOOSA Lakes Resort in Tewantin’s Hilton Terrace is set to receive a facelift and become a small hub for “business tourism”. The resort currently houses a conference centre, 94 units and a surf museum which is extensively used for community
WHILE most Noosa Council Ordinary Meetings (OM) are primarily rubber-stampings of decisions voted in the previous Monday’s General Committee (GC), there can at times be extended debate on seemingly unresolved issues. An item in the GC of January 20 concerned
AN APPLICATION to gain short-term accommodation (STA) status for two units in a dual-occupancy property in Noosa Heads has been narrowly voted down at Noosa Council. The Angler St site, off Viewland Drive, sits in a medium-density residential neighbourhood that