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Ms Coyle said the planning act allowed for the approval process to be stopped for up to an accumulative period of 130 days. She said the mechanism could be stopped and restarted by the GemLife as many times as it liked. GemLife has requested to halt the process on its application until March 18. “I’ve never seen that before,” Ms Coyle said. “I find it quite highly unusual that they’ve taken this approach in order to try and defer the matter until a further meeting. The...

A two-hectare Lake Weyba Dr block adjoining national park has raised Noosa Council planning concerns.

Innovative Planning Solutions consultant James Brownsworth said GemLife would be seeking a final debate and vote at the councils March ordinary meeting. "The reason for the deferral is to simply allow more time to communicate with the decision makers to respond to the officer report," Mr Brownsworth said. He said with the planning report only becoming publicly available last Friday and GemLife wanted a bigger engagement window of opportunity to make councillors and the community fully aware ...

But the nearby property manager of Coral Beach Noosa Resort Finola Thompson, who formally objected to application, is not happy. "Everything has been done the wrong way round, the focus should be on having professional operators who have a code of standards, who have response times," Ms Thompson said. "How are council going to enforce the conditions, thats the main thing and how will they know whether its being enforced on not? "If you look at the design of that property that has just been ...

  An artists impression of the proposed new development in Tewantin. "Were actually really excited at getting to a point where we feel like we have a viable development that actually meets the community needs," Mr Wright said. He said his company had reduced a 762sq m commercial floorspace from a previous approval to 188sq m due to a lack of demand in the area. "Were already oversupplied in Tewantin (for commercial space)," he said. "Weve scaled down the sizes, we think that might be mo...

The proposed development fulfils the need to generate a business hub within the Noosa Business Centre in Noosaville for more diversified business offerings.

Noosa has battled to control short-term lettings in residential areas that attract large number of tenants whose rowdy socialising impacts nearby neighbours. "I understand that this is a police matter and that we can only regulate the land use," Cr Lorentson said. "Police as we know are under resourced … my question is why cant we give our local laws officers greater powers?" Cr Lorentson said. She said there had to be a point when the council decided to step up and act. However, Mr d...

After buying the company in 1999, Mr van de Merwe has poured decades of hard-earned executive experience into successfully running Golden Breed outlets in Noosa, the Gold Coast, Byron Bay and Flinders in Victoria as well as online. Mr van de Merwe hopes to have his new store with its proposed upstairs short-term stay built and open for business by Christmas. "Were going to build that big surf shed there, at the moment its just a like a little ex-hire business for cars," he said. His brief t...

NBN network builder Aurecon has already reduced the proposed monopole tower height from its original 35m proposal. Councillors at next weeks ordinary meeting must decide whether or not to accept council legal advice to end its defence of the Planning and Environment Court appeal and approve a 26m version. The proposed NBN tower site at Cooran. Noosa Quad Bike Tours operator Charles Marais is among those withdrawing from legal action against the tower being built near his property. Mr Mara...

An approval would open the way for a new tenant, suggested marina general manager Warren Smith. "We havent advertised it yet because weve still got to finish the building," Mr Smith said. "There used to be a sails structure out the back and out the front and they were looking a bit tired so weve taken those down and build a roof over the top. "We took the opportunity of doing works during the (COVID) lockdown and the River Deck tenancy was ending in May anyway," he said. The 2A tenancy sho...