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Swim on for summer The Noosa Summer Swim Festival, now one of Australia’s most popular open water swims, is on this weekend at Main Beach. Every year it brings more than 2500 swimmers and twice as many supporters to Noosa for a huge weekend of sun, surf and epic swims. It’s a bucket list event for any keen ocean swimmer with a festival atmosphere that only Noosa Main Beach can deliver.
On Saturday, the weekend kicks off with two open water clinics for swimmers to gain expert coaching and tips and tricks from elite coaches. Then on Sunday, ocean swims range from the 300m Junior Giants to the big one, the Noosa 5.0km. As always, there will be a huge range of abilities on the start line, from firsttimers to seasoned swimmers and current Australian representatives.
Locals in for fight The State Facilitated Development proposal for Tewantin, at 87-89 Poinciana Avenue and 10 Sidoni Street, has been lodged with the state government and is now open for public comment. The three Noosa community groups that teamed up to fight the SFD proposals in Noosa are now calling on residents to lodge objections to the proposal. Noosa Shire Residents & Ratepayers Association, Peregian Beach Community Association and Noosa Parks Association all say the proposal
contravenes the Noosa planning scheme and sets a dangerous precedent if approved. “The proposal for Tewantin is for a four-storey building on a site that is zoned for just two-storeys,“ Aaron White of Noosa Shire Residents & Ratepayers Association said. “If we are to retain the village character of places like Tewantin, then over-scale developments must be prevented. The proposed development
also breaches setback limits from the street and the maximum site cover. This is an overreach by a developer hoping to skirt around the Noosa planning scheme.“ “While we all accept the need for a better range of housing in Noosa, and more affordable housing, letting developers ignore the planning scheme is not the way to deal with the problem,“ John Hare of Peregian Beach Community Association said.
“Council has already demonstrated to the state that it can provide affordable housing on council-owned land elsewhere, without breaching the planning scheme. We don’t need oversize developments to achieve affordable housing. In any case, the proposed development does not guarantee that it will deliver genuinely affordable homes and has no reliable commitment from a Community Housing Provider.“ Continued page 2
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