MEDIA RELEASE from Development Watch Coolum and Yaroomba Community thanks its Development Watch champion Lyn Saxton has never been one to watch from the sidelines. The Coolum and Yaroomba community says thankyou this month to one of its hardest working volunteer champions, as she steps down from her role as […]
Planning laws protect people. A poorly regulated rush to boost housing supply will cost us all.
Patrick Harris, UNSW Sydney and Edgar Liu, UNSW Sydney The housing crisis is firmly on the Australian policy agenda. Governments see a rapid increase in supply as the main solution. The importance of supply is not disputed. But more housing alone isn’t enough: new housing must be provided in ways […]
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SAVE YAROOMBA CAMPAIGN OVER
MEDIA RELEASE October 11, 2023 The campaign to Save Yaroomba from the Sekisui multi high rise development is over. Friends of Yaroomba President, Jim Moore, said the long painful process had elements of a Shakespearean tragedy with the love of place by the community versus the opportunity for profit by […]
Heavy rail is essential, but it can’t be our only plan’: calls for traffic fix
A Sunshine Coast community leader is urging levels of government to invest in vital infrastructure to save the region from transport woes. With the Sunshine Coast population expected to grow from 357,422 in 2021 to 518,004 in 2041, Caloundra Chamber of Commerce president Michael Shadforth said the region can’t wait […]