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A NEW child care centre with capacity for 154 kids has been approved in a residential estate in the booming Ripley Valley and another could also be built next door.
Ipswich City Council has given the green light to construct the two-storey facility in the Ecco Ripley estate with a large number of families moving to the city’s rapidly growing south east pocket.
It will be built on land at 1 Brooking Rise, Ripley and will operate from 6.30am to 7pm. Ink Developments Pty Ltd submitted a development application to the council in October.
Another child care centre with places for 162 kids has been proposed for 2 Brooking Rise with an application submitted in August, but a decision has yet to be made by the council.
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Subscriber only WESTERN Pride head coach Brian Hastings was still exploring his goalkeeping options preparing for Friday night s hotly-anticipated local derby against the Ipswich Knights. After having to field young goalkeeper Ashton Bonsall in the net with his two frontliners out, Hastings was looking for a more experienced shot-stopper. We ll make that decision tonight, Hastings said. Under the circumstances, Bonsall did his job against a Souths United team keen to exploit the teenager s inexperience in last weekend s Football Queensland Premier League 1 encounter. He (Bonsall) will be on the bench for sure but he may still be guarding the goal, Hastings said.
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TREASURER Josh Frydenberg will hand down the federal budget next week and we will learn how much money will flow for infrastructure, upgrades and other programs in Ipswich.
Ahead of the budget, the QT asked all of the cityâs elected representatives what they believed to be the priority projects in their patches.
As the fastest growing city in Queensland, Ipswich desperately needs the infrastructure to keep up the expected population growth with the total number of residents set to more than double to 558,000 in the next 20 years.
Hereâs what they said:
FEDERAL MEMBER FOR BLAIR SHAYNE NEUMANN (LABOR)
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Subscriber only RIPLEY Valley FC head coach Nick Paterson is scouting new players after an injury crisis at the Capital League 1 club. Ripley Valley have 15 players sidelined across their two senior squads already this season with nine of those first-team footballers. I ve only got 17 fit players available for two squads this weekend, Paterson said. It s not ideal. However, Paterson was hopeful of securing some extra back-up preparing for Sunday night s latest CL1 clash against Pine Hills at South Ripley. I ve always said from the get-go there s going to be no runaway favourites in this league, Paterson said.