Frank Wilkie’s supporters saw his convincing election win last March as the beginning of the end of Noosa’s Short Term Accommodation (STA) scourge. Many residents voted for him, convinced by his pledge to be at the ‘forefront of safeguarding Noosa’s
In the March election, Frank Wilkie promised that as Mayor he would “halt the spread and impacts of Short Stay Accommodation (STA) in residential areas”. For residents impacted by STA it was the number-ONE election issue. They took Frank at
Newly elected Mayor Frank Wilkie and five of the 2024 councillors directly acknowledged residents’ frustration with the implementation and enforcement of the Short Stay Let Local Law (SSL LL) during the election campaign. Mayor Wilkie committed to “halt the spread
Noosa Residents Against Unregistered Short-Term Accommodation (NRAUSTA) asked candidates in this month’s council election for Yes or No answers to five simple questions. The group wanted to understand each candidate’s attitude to Short-Term Accommodation (STA) and to use traffic lights
“ Now we know what Gaslighting feels like”. One Noosa resident with lived STA experience is responding to the characterisation of Short-Term Accommodation (STA) problems as being ‘imaginary’. Health practitioner Dr Alison Asher, and her family live in a duplex impacted by Short-term Letting of the adjoining property.
When you search the Noosa Council website for statistics on the scourge of Short Term Accommodation (STA) in our shire, you get this message: “Information coming soon”. This test of community patience has been unchanged since the implementation of the
Many Noosa ratepayers, frustrated by the snail-paced implementation of the Short Stay Let (SSL) Local Law, want the approaching March election to re-boot the initiative. “Implementation has stalled,” Natasha Fabulic, convenor of the Noosa Residents Against Unregulated Short-Term Accommodation (NRAUSTA),
Seven months ago Noosa Council won a Planning and Environment Court appeal against its refusal to approve a short stay letting (SSL) approval in Sunshine Beach. The Mayor declared this to be a ‘litmus test’ for its approvals policy for
About 1500 dwellings continue to be offered for short term rent in Noosa without approval. That’s right – 200 more than were operating unregistered and unapproved in February this year at the time of the Local Law review, according to
Congestion has played on an endless loop in Noosa for years. Everyone acknowledges the problem, and everyone has a solution – except those that matter, Noosa Councillors. To deflect criticism Councillors point to free buses; to park and ride; changed
Frank Wilkie’s supporters saw his convincing election win last March as the beginning of the end of Noosa’s Short Term Accommodation (STA) scourge. Many residents voted for him, convinced by his pledge to be at the ‘forefront of safeguarding Noosa’s
In the March election, Frank Wilkie promised that as Mayor he would “halt the spread and impacts of Short Stay Accommodation (STA) in residential areas”. For residents impacted by STA it was the number-ONE election issue. They took Frank at
Newly elected Mayor Frank Wilkie and five of the 2024 councillors directly acknowledged residents’ frustration with the implementation and enforcement of the Short Stay Let Local Law (SSL LL) during the election campaign. Mayor Wilkie committed to “halt the spread
Noosa Residents Against Unregistered Short-Term Accommodation (NRAUSTA) asked candidates in this month’s council election for Yes or No answers to five simple questions. The group wanted to understand each candidate’s attitude to Short-Term Accommodation (STA) and to use traffic lights
“ Now we know what Gaslighting feels like”. One Noosa resident with lived STA experience is responding to the characterisation of Short-Term Accommodation (STA) problems as being ‘imaginary’. Health practitioner Dr Alison Asher, and her family live in a duplex impacted by Short-term Letting of the adjoining property.
When you search the Noosa Council website for statistics on the scourge of Short Term Accommodation (STA) in our shire, you get this message: “Information coming soon”. This test of community patience has been unchanged since the implementation of the
Many Noosa ratepayers, frustrated by the snail-paced implementation of the Short Stay Let (SSL) Local Law, want the approaching March election to re-boot the initiative. “Implementation has stalled,” Natasha Fabulic, convenor of the Noosa Residents Against Unregulated Short-Term Accommodation (NRAUSTA),
Seven months ago Noosa Council won a Planning and Environment Court appeal against its refusal to approve a short stay letting (SSL) approval in Sunshine Beach. The Mayor declared this to be a ‘litmus test’ for its approvals policy for
About 1500 dwellings continue to be offered for short term rent in Noosa without approval. That’s right – 200 more than were operating unregistered and unapproved in February this year at the time of the Local Law review, according to
Congestion has played on an endless loop in Noosa for years. Everyone acknowledges the problem, and everyone has a solution – except those that matter, Noosa Councillors. To deflect criticism Councillors point to free buses; to park and ride; changed