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Big win for SLSC By Ron Lane On Saturday 14 February the Noosa SLSC walked away from Noosa Main Beach as winners of the Sunshine Coast branch championships for the 2025-26 season. With 726 points they finished well in place of second place Mooloolaba on 522 and Alexandra Headlands in third place with 219 points. Despite the absence of junior and senior participants who travelled south to contest the Shaw and Partners World Ocean Series Sunset 10000 carnival plus male and female boat crews travelling to NSW we should acknowledge those who competed and won the Sunshine Coast branch titles. Read more on the championships in next week’s Noosa Today
Finella Gibbs-Beal competing in the Shaw and Partners Sunset 10,000 World Ocean Series. (DH Darts)
Move on housing Twenty-five small, high-quality affordable homes planned for a previously unusable Councilowned former landfill site in Cooroy secured a key approval this week. Mayor Frank Wilkie said the one and twobedroom social housing units will help address Noosa’s housing crisis for families, young people and seniors who are listed on the Queensland So-
cial Housing Register. Registered community housing provider Coast2Bay Housing Group has secured significant Queensland Government funding to build the units. Coast2Bay’s development application sought approval for 25 small dwellings and a communal area on a 3158-square-metre parcel within the
Community Facilities Zone, identified as Future Lot 1 at 64 Lake Macdonald Drive, Cooroy. “Council unanimously approved the development application at today’s General Committee Meeting. It will go to Thursday’s Ordinary Meeting to be ratified,” Cr Wilkie said. An independent planning consultant reviewed Council’s internal assessment because
Council is the current landowner and a project partner. “The independent review confirmed staff’s assessment of the proposal aligns with the planning scheme and will deliver substantial community benefit in the form of much-needed housing,” the Mayor said. CONTINUED PAGE 3
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