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One of the Fraser Coast’s smallest communities has set a benchmark for future planning.
This is because when it came time for the council to look at the infrastructure needed in Poona, the town’s Progress Association had already done much of the groundwork.
In November 2020, the council endorsed the Poona Community Infrastructure Plan, the result of years of consulting with the association and the local community.
For association President Jon Colclough, seeing the council endorse the plan was rewarding after so much hard work.
“What happened before is that the community didn’t know what it wanted, therefore council didn’t know what it wanted. We ended up funding ad hoc projects which didn’t make sense,” he explained