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The developer of a controversial motorsport park at Bella Creek is pushing back at tight restrictions enforced by Gympie Regional Council on the project when it was approved late last year Scott Canty s decade-long fight to have the park approved ended last October when the park was given a green light provided 25 conditions were met. Now Mr Canty is asking for some of these to be altered or deleted entirely. Points of contention include conditions placed around the serving of food on the site, the construction of a 6m wide gravel track inside the park, the need for a dedicated parking area, and on the limited number of riders allowed at the park s first few events, a staff report to be tabled at Wednesday s council meeting says. ....
Bay residents were left stranded in the middle of sweltering heat on December 2, after multiple burst pipes cut the town’s water supply that morning. The water supply was later restored hours earlier than expected. In last week’s workshop and councillor briefing at the Town Hall it was confirmed there had been a “series of mains breaks” in the water network 0n and after that date, all “within the high zone, with the majority around the commercial area of Dolphin Avenue and Gympie Road”. The Gympie Council is scrambling to bring back a regular maintenance program to help stem the flow of Tin Can Bay water main failures. ....
Premium Content Subscriber only The Gympie arts community is calling on the council to give it some certainty as to the future of its River Rd base, saying it is at risk of having to give back more than $40,000 in funding without it. Creative Arts Gympie Region has been calling the former Quartz Hub building on River Rd, opposite Memorial Park, home since the middle of last year after the two groups merged. Secretary Lesa Campbell said the plan was to turn the building into an arts hub, home to everything from live music to performance. But in November last year they were told by the council their management agreement was not being renewed and they had to leave in December. ....
Gympie Regional Council has won the right to put down two dangerous dogs following a four year legal battle with their owner. The council and Kate Mitchell have been fighting over the fate of a male black American Staffordshire Pit Bull Terrier named Max and a female brown and white American Staffordshire Pit Bull Terrier called Maggie since 2017. The dogs were declared dangerous by the council in February 2017, after repeatedly escaping from Ms Mitchell s Tamaree property in 2016 and attacking a neighbour s dog. Five months after being declared dangerous, Max and Maggie were impounded by the council following the death of another neighbour s dog, a five-month old kelpie cross pup named Boof. ....