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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 layout of the proposed GemLife development. “It does mean that the council cannot decide 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 council's 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 of the project's benefits. The proposed new Cooroy Golf Club if the GemLife retirement resort goes...

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, that's the main thing and how will they know whether it's being enforced on not? "If you look at the design of that property that has just been approved it all opens out to the street so if that one is not properly managed that will disturb t...

  An artist's impression of the proposed new development in Tewantin. "We're 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. "We're already oversupplied in Tewantin (for commercial space)," he said. "We've scaled down the sizes, we think that might be more appealing. "We've had interest from hairdressers and cafes and things, but in reality it's m...