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Garden is blooming “The Noosa Community Garden is changing the community for the better. It’s a positive space,“ Mayor Clare Stewart said last Sunday as the garden’s committee, members and supporters celebrated its first birthday and unveiled signs to recognise its many contributors. “In 2012, Slow Food Noosa, along with United Synergies, founded the community gardens in Earl Street, Tewantin, as an outreach program for local youth who would come together to take care of their school garden,“ community garden president June Copeman said. “As the gardening initiative made headway, the popularity of having a community garden meant that it was taking on a new life. “Soon there after the gardens expanded into something for the whole community. In March of 2018, Noosa Community Gardens became incorporated and thus it was no longer under the auspices of organisations that originally brought it to fruition.“ A year ago the garden shifted from Tewantin to its current home on Noosa Council land at Wallace Park. Continued page 4
Anita Adelis and Juliana De Witts among the flowers.
No time to argue Noosa Springs resident John Cochrane has slammed Noosa Council and its chief executive officer Scott Waters for giving objectors to the controversial luxury hotel proposal at the resort only two days next week to bring their case to individual councillors. “It’s taken almost 18 months for the development application to be finally on the agenda of the council’s general committee and, because of the way the council manages its application development process, we’ve been given
next to no time to access busy councillors. “This is hardly what could be described as a thriving democracy.” The plan by Hong Kong developer Golden Horse Nine Dragon Lake Holdings to develop a 112-room hotel with three tennis courts and two swimming pools was announced in December 2021. Within two weeks the $50 million dollar proposal drew objections from more than 450 residents, community and strata bodies. Since then the residents have collaborated
with Sydney hospitality experts Five Foot One Design to develop an alternative proposal which reduced the developer’s original plan by about one-third. Mr Cochrane, an architect and spokesman for the objectors, said it was council policy that councillors may not meet with persons interested in a development proposal until the application report was published on the council meeting agenda. “This means that anyone opposing an application may only have as little as one business day in which to speak to councillors prior
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to a decision being made. “Objectors to the hotel have been well aware of the limitations of this policy and of its potential to shut down public debate on development proposals.” He showed Noosa Today an email sent by objectors on February 14 to Mr Waters asking for assurance that they would have the opportunity to speak to all councillors before a decision was made. Continued page 5
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