“Noosa should be a special place to live, not just to visit.” Community responds to Noosa Council’s proposed management of short stay accommodation rentals.
Andema s directors are listed as Sydney residents John Ramage and Brian Nicholls and New Zealand resident Bret Jackson. They want the original approval for a two-storey office, entertainment, dining and retail space extended, saying the proposed scale and form of the development is suitable for the area. Court documents lodged on their behalf say the new building is consistent with long standing community expectations for the site. The Friendly Grocer store in Peregian before it closed its doors. The proposed development responds to and protects the natural beach experience which provides a safe public area for aesthetic enjoyment and recreational and social interaction, the documents say.
She said the backyards of some homes along the beachfront on Lorikeet Dr in south Peregian were also in the low risk category. The report underlines the high cost of replacing existing public infrastructure such as the picnic area, skate park and parking areas should they be damaged as a result of coastal erosion, Ms Kroon said. Community feedback indicates that non-intrusive solutions, such as dune rehabilitation and mitigation, is the preferred course of action. Ms Kroon said rock sea walls were very much a last resort . We have been working for many years to protect and strengthen our dunes and the vegetation that helps them remain intact, she said
New Peregian Beach Community Association president Marian Kroon and former president Barry Cotterell. Mr Cotterell helped muster his grassroots troops to stop Lorikeet Dr being swallowed up in the Sunshine Motorway connection road network and also fought successfully to stop high rise development in the same street. For more than eight years he lobbied for a better outcomes at the old Peregian Beach caravan site where the IGA supermarket sits nestled below the David Low Way. The former Brisbane barrister rejected the not in my backyard accusations that his group was anti-development. We ve had developers wanting to build inappropriate developments, Mr Cotterell, 74, said.