The developer of a controversial motorsport park at Bella Creek is pushing back at tight restrictions enforced by Gympie Regional Council on the project when it was approved late last year Scott Canty s decade-long fight to have the park approved ended last October when the park was given a green light provided 25 conditions were met. Now Mr Canty is asking for some of these to be altered or deleted entirely. Points of contention include conditions placed around the serving of food on the site, the construction of a 6m wide gravel track inside the park, the need for a dedicated parking area, and on the limited number of riders allowed at the park s first few events, a staff report to be tabled at Wednesday s council meeting says.
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The Gympie region is continuing to claw its way toward being a major food bowl, with plans unveiled to transform a 39ha Wolvi property into a red claw crayfish farm.
Owen and Kaitlyn Warhurst have asked for permission to transform the property, southwest of the Toolara Forest and on Counter Rd, into a farm capable of producing 6.5-8 tonne of crayfish a year.
To do this they will need to build 3ha of grow-out ponds on the property, each with a 2200sq m surface area.
The land itself has been extensively cleared due to its historical use in growing sugar cane.
A Gympie self-storage business has unveiled plans to expand and add more than a dozen new storage rooms to its facility.
Ezicost has lodged an application with Gympie Regional Council to build a new storage shed on the 1.18ha Cogan St block it has called home since the days of Gympie City Council.
It would be the eighth storage facility on the block. The new shed would add more than a dozen storage spaces.
The proposed new storage block would be clad in sheet metal and aesthetically similar to the existing buildings on the site.
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Development can be time consuming but for some Gympie region applicants the process has become a years-long exercise.
These are the three oldest as-yet unresolved development applications still with Gympie Regional Council.
Downsfield delay
The oldest outstanding application on the council’s records is the request to split a block at Downsfield, between Kia Ora and the Curra State Forest, which was first lodged shortly after Mick Curran became the mayor in 2015. Tuis Kenins Rd, Downsfield, application was made nearly six years ago.
No details are available online about Helen and Brian O’Donovan’s application to create one extra block on their Kenins Rd property.