Sunshine Coast Council has settled almost $17 million worth of land sales in its 53ha new Maroochydore CBD. A SunCentral spokesman said the council had confirmed five land sales had settled, marking total settlement proceeds of about $16.9 million excluding GST. The spokesman said there had been no instances where developers had been able to acquire land in the new CBD without paying the full price upfront and there were no arrangements where developers would repay at the completion of their development or the lease or sale of their site. Evans Long s Foundation Place site was bought for $1.76 million, while their next project on site A1, a new six-level, $10 million office block was yet to settle, which meant the sale price was not available.
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Noisy garbage trucks will soon be a thing of the past for some Australians as one council begins building a state-of-the-art underground automated waste collection system.
The Sunshine Coast Council has announced that it will install the first automated waste collection system in Australia under Maroochydore city centre in 2016 - and phase one has already been completed.
The high-tech system uses underground pipes to transport waste out of the city centre at speeds of up to 70km/h through a system of pipes 6.5km long.
It will mean no more rude wake-up calls by noisy, early morning garbage trucks.
The rubbish will be vacuumed twice a day at speeds of 70km/h through 6.5km of piping
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The 70km/h suction whoosh of Australiaâs first underground waste disposal system will replace the clanging and rattling of some rubbish trucks and wheelie bins by June.
Automated underground rubbish system are in place in cities including Stockholm, Seoul, Barcelona, London, Singapore and Beijing, but not in Australia.
An artistâs impression of an underground, vacuum-driven waste collection system being built at Maroochydore.
Credit:Envac Australia.
Over the past five years, a 6.5-kilometre network of underground pipes has been placed under a section of Maroochydore, on Queenslandâs Sunshine Coast, in the first phase of the innovative waste-disposal technology rollout.