Bettina's submission to the Noosa Plan is concerned with Short Stay Accommodation, placemaking in her own suburb and other issues.
This is a submission by Leigh McCready to the Draft Noosa Plan which are said to have been submitted by around 140 supporters.
Another thorough contribution from NNSA President Nick Hluszko as an alternative locality plan presented to Noosa Council along with the group's submission to the New Noosa Plan which reflects North Shore residents' perspective.
Submission to the 2019 Draft Noosa Plan on behalf of Noosa North Shore Association Inc members
While Noosa Council has gone to great lengths to engage the community through a long consultation process, the reality is that many residents simply...
John Lobb's report on the Noosa Council General Committee Meeting of Monday 13 May
Desire Gralton's submission to the New Noosa Plan looks at how the plan affects her personally and provides some observations of the changes in the Sunrise Beach area where mansions are replacing family homes and affordable housing sneaks out the back door. While the plan states to "provide densely landscaped settings with mature trees and vegetation retained wherever possible”, the truth is far from it. Could community placemaking events help Council to find a better way?
John Lobb reports on the Noosa Council Planning & Environment Committee Meeting of Tuesday 7 May where signage is declared evil and drone dreams take flight, but discussions around infrastructure delays remain illusive.
The New Noosa Plan is out for public review and feedback. It is a big and complex document. We are inviting you to send us your submission and if it's got chops we'll publish it on Open Noosa. Give your submission a good airing and get inspired by others.
Dusk had well and truly set in as 70 or so protestors milled outside the council chambers. They waved placards showing they were demonstrating against changes to aircraft flight paths which they claimed would affect the peaceful solitude of their lives.
Judy Barrass' submission to the draft Noosa Plan focuses on short term accommodation (STA) and a new proposed designated zone. We hope this will kick off an interesting series.
With the mass shooting of innocent Muslims at a mosque in New Zealand closely followed by the expose of One Nation’s efforts to water down Australia’s gun laws, Desiré reflects on her childhood growing up in a trigger happy society.
Sustainable use of our natural resources cannot be achieved without community cooperation – the Government can decide and legislate and regulate with all its might, but it will not succeed without the community. So we cannot afford to give up but at the moment community/government relationships are dysfunctional.
Bettina believes that as a community good ethical standards enable us to operate with sincerity, rationality, competence, power, compassion and confidence. In this context she considers Gloster's approach from a recent feature article, ‘Gloster's Way: get in first’, and his PhD Thesis.
The Lobb Report about Noosa Council's Ordinary Meeting of Thursday 21 March 2019 - is this the end of cockatoos in Sunrise and lifesavers at Peregian?
Join Glossy Team will meet Cr Ingrid Jackson on Thursday 21 March at 5.30pm in front of Noosa Council Chambers to officially hand over the petition to save Glossy feed trees at the Sunrise development. The Noosa Council Ordinary Meeting will commence at 6pm and a debate about minor amendments to the Blue Care development is on the agenda.
Noosa Draft Community Health and Well-Being Plan 2019-2024 is now open for comments on Council’s website. It identifies ageing of the population as a major issue, but it gives scant attention to the specific needs of older people and the particular burden of social isolation, disease, disability and dementia that comes with an older population.
In this column regular contributor John Lobb presents the highlights from two Noosa Council meetings held on Tuesday 12 February - the Planning & Environment Committee and the Services & Organisation Committee.
As a survivor of a bush fire event a local grandmother decided to dig deeper to find out what exactly would happen should a fire break out in the Sunrise Beach area. What she found left her extremely concerned, especially taking into account the addition of 500 elderly residents once the Blue Care development goes ahead.
Last week we met with representatives from Uniting Care / Blue Care to deliver our petition, comments and letters of support. We now turn our efforts back to you Noosa Council. We would like you to support a rethink of the development to make it a biosphere worthy aged care facility.
On 22 January 2019 Sunrise Beach locals supported by a Glossy expert sat down with Uniting Care and Blue Care representatives to discuss the planned aged care development at Sunrise Beach.
The developer (Uniting Care / Blue Care) was represented...
The Noosa Council ordinary meeting of Thursday 17 January, 2019. Spoke to Stan from Pomona who is not happy with the Council. He spoke to Mayor Tony Wellington but will contact other Councillors to express his concerns. Wellington gave me a forced nod; I'll have to send him another letter reminding him of his faults. Cr Jess Glasgow rushed past and said nothing. Cr Joe Juresivic walked past without a greeting...
