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A FOURTH major social housing site has been earmarked within a 400metre stretch of eastern Beerwah. GC&M News can reveal that the Department of Housing purchased an acre block at 6 Swan Street earlier this year for future
development. The 4047sq m property directly adjoins the Kabi Kabi housing project on Beerwah Parade and sits near two other major social and affordable housing developments already under construction or planned. The purchase adds to a growing pipeline of housing in Beerwah, where nearly
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200 social and affordable homes are already under construction, committed or recently acquired. The Swan St site joins the 64-unit development at 71 Beerwah Parade, the neighbouring 24-home at 57 Beerwah Parade and BlueCHP’s 70-unit development at 43–45 Beerwah Parade. Full story p3
Blasted over quarry By Mitch Gaynor SUNSHINE Coast Council will not reveal how much ratepayers spent fighting a major quarry expansion after a judge described parts of its case as “non-sensical”, “scaremongering” and a “gratuitous attack” on an expert witness. In an at times scathing 223-page judgment, Judge Nicole Kefford found the
council was “completely unprepared” to support one alleged planningcode breach, relied on an earlier court decision in a way that created “a false impression” and abandoned several allegations during the hearing. She also found the council had a tendency to “catastrophise” the potential impacts of the proposed GHM quarry expansion. Full story p4-5
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