(This story has been updated to reflect that some businesses mentioned in an earlier version are neighbouring but not directly impacted by the development application.) “Local planning decisions need to be made in Noosa, not Brisbane.” That’s the main takeaway
When I was mayor, a development application came to council seeking approval for a petrol station on the Eumundi-Noosa Road, between Rene Street and Eenie Creek Road. I received correspondence and verbal urgings from some residents urging a refusal of the application on the
The aesthetic look and feel of Noosa could be permanently destroyed and the Noosa planning scheme effectively neutered if two large development applications are given the go-ahead – one of them being potentially the biggest unit development ever presented as
The polls show that a change of government in Queensland next month is all but certain. Will Noosa’s lone Independent Sandy Bolton hang on, or will ex-Mayor Clare Stewart be swept in on the rising LNP tide? If you get
To understand some of the big issues facing Noosa Council right now, we need to go back just a little to see what it’s come through in recent years. That journey can tell us a lot. There was a short-lived
A development application lodged more than four years ago for a commercial car wash in Cooroy has now been approved. The automated car wash, designed to cater for four-wheel drives, RVs and caravans, will be located between the two petrol
Every Noosa survey tells us that road congestion is one of our most pressing and annoying issues, and every so often an event comes along to turbo-charge the problem. The last such event was Covid. It flipped the switch on
Weather and construction commitments permitting, the new Bruce Highway ‘Cooroy to Curra’ bypass of Gympie will open in late October. The final 26km section of the massive project is the last of three sections – and the longest – as part
This month’s rally against Noosa Council’s plans to update the much-loved Gympie Terrace foreshore had a strong whiff of sideshow alley about it. At face value many of the 200 or so (some claimed 300) who turned out in blustery
Noosa Council has hit the ‘reset’ button on two key issues; the plan to update the much-loved foreshore at Noosaville and the long-term strategy to better protect and improve the Noosa River. Both go back to the drawing board for
(This story has been updated to reflect that some businesses mentioned in an earlier version are neighbouring but not directly impacted by the development application.) “Local planning decisions need to be made in Noosa, not Brisbane.” That’s the main takeaway
When I was mayor, a development application came to council seeking approval for a petrol station on the Eumundi-Noosa Road, between Rene Street and Eenie Creek Road. I received correspondence and verbal urgings from some residents urging a refusal of the application on the
The aesthetic look and feel of Noosa could be permanently destroyed and the Noosa planning scheme effectively neutered if two large development applications are given the go-ahead – one of them being potentially the biggest unit development ever presented as
The polls show that a change of government in Queensland next month is all but certain. Will Noosa’s lone Independent Sandy Bolton hang on, or will ex-Mayor Clare Stewart be swept in on the rising LNP tide? If you get
To understand some of the big issues facing Noosa Council right now, we need to go back just a little to see what it’s come through in recent years. That journey can tell us a lot. There was a short-lived
A development application lodged more than four years ago for a commercial car wash in Cooroy has now been approved. The automated car wash, designed to cater for four-wheel drives, RVs and caravans, will be located between the two petrol
Every Noosa survey tells us that road congestion is one of our most pressing and annoying issues, and every so often an event comes along to turbo-charge the problem. The last such event was Covid. It flipped the switch on
Weather and construction commitments permitting, the new Bruce Highway ‘Cooroy to Curra’ bypass of Gympie will open in late October. The final 26km section of the massive project is the last of three sections – and the longest – as part
This month’s rally against Noosa Council’s plans to update the much-loved Gympie Terrace foreshore had a strong whiff of sideshow alley about it. At face value many of the 200 or so (some claimed 300) who turned out in blustery
Noosa Council has hit the ‘reset’ button on two key issues; the plan to update the much-loved foreshore at Noosaville and the long-term strategy to better protect and improve the Noosa River. Both go back to the drawing board for