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Premium Content Subscriber only Sekisui House is preparing for the start of development at its Yaroomba Beach site despite still waiting for a court appeal judgment. Over the next couple of months works including geotechnical testing and surveying will be completed at the site controversially slated for a five-star resort, residential and commercial development. Project director Evan Aldridge said it was important to collect site information, in preparation for the start of development, while waiting for the judgement from the Court of Appeal later this year. Artist's impressions of Sekis...

Council planning staff and former CEO Michael Whittaker appeared at-odds over conditions for a rooftop bar in the Sekisui House Yaroomba Beach proposal just weeks before its approval. Internal emails released as part of a recent Sunshine Coast Council Right to Information disclosure of more than 3000 pages revealed differing opinions over the conditioning of usage for the rooftop aspect of the proposed hotel. On May 24, 2018, Mr Whittaker requested planning staff make "some improvements to the presentation" to be given at a workshop with councillors about a month before they voted to appro...

Artist's impressions of Sekisui House's hotel and residential development at Yaroomba.   A hearing is due to take place next month. Development Watch Lyn Saxton earlier this month lamented the fact the revelations hadn't come out after the initial council approval, as they could've launched a judicial review and sidestepped the costly process. She said she expected any issues raised with council processes would have to be dealt with separately, not as part of the ongoing legal case. The revelations: Within the thousands of pages released was an email trail which revealed council plann...

Councillors Greg Rogerson, Jason O'Pray, Jenny McKay, Ted Hungerford and Rick Baberowski voted against the development on June 21, 2018. Councillors John Connolly, Christian Dickson, Steve Robinson, Tim Dwyer, Peter Cox and Mayor Mark Jamieson voted in favour. Dickson had no knowledge of mooted refusal: Cr Dickson said his "only insight into the assessment" was that council planners had been concerned about a "number of matters ranging from height, density, traffic, environment and resident objections". "At no stage was I aware that a refusal had been proposed and reviewed by senior staff...

Sunshine Coast Council has broken its silence after revelations about the controversial approval of Sekisui House's Yaroomba Beach five-star resort and housing development in 2018. A recent Right to Information release published by the council showed planners had been preparing to recommend refusal of the billion-dollar project just weeks before it was eventually recommended for approval and secured councillors' approval in a 6-5 vote at a special meeting. The council last week declined to respond to questions put by the Daily, citing the fact the matter was currently before the Court of ...