The organisation representing family-owned businesses throughout Ireland has today called for the establishment of a new state agency for indigenous and family businesses which would facilitate the scaling up of the domestic economy at a time when Ireland’s FDI model faces increasing challenges.
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Subscriber only Sekisui House is preparing for the start of development at its Yaroomba Beach site despite still waiting for a court appeal judgment. Over the next couple of months works including geotechnical testing and surveying will be completed at the site controversially slated for a five-star resort, residential and commercial development. Project director Evan Aldridge said it was important to collect site information, in preparation for the start of development, while waiting for the judgement from the Court of Appeal later this year. Artist s impressions of Sekisui House s hotel and residential development at Yaroomba. A statement on behalf of the developer said that an earlier approval for the site, for a gated estate of apartments and houses, was still current and would be accommodated in the site investigation works.
Council planning staff and former CEO Michael Whittaker appeared at-odds over conditions for a rooftop bar in the Sekisui House Yaroomba Beach proposal just weeks before its approval. Internal emails released as part of a recent Sunshine Coast Council Right to Information disclosure of more than 3000 pages revealed differing opinions over the conditioning of usage for the rooftop aspect of the proposed hotel. On May 24, 2018, Mr Whittaker requested planning staff make some improvements to the presentation to be given at a workshop with councillors about a month before they voted to approve the controversial project 6-5 in a special council meeting.