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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
One of the busiest intersections in Hervey Bay is set to become safer with electrical and excavation works starting Monday 15 February to pave the way for the installation of traffic lights in early 2022.
Deputy Mayor Darren Everard said the intersection of Boundary Road, Robert Street and Hughes Road was particularly busy around school drop off and pick up times.
“The intersection services three schools – Urangan High, Sandy Straits State School and Star of the Sea Primary School – as well as a childcare centre. Boundary Road is also one of the major east-west thoroughfares in the Bay connecting to the airport and the medical precinct.”