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Subscriber only Sekisui House is preparing for the start of development at its Yaroomba Beach site despite still waiting for a court appeal judgment. Over the next couple of months works including geotechnical testing and surveying will be completed at the site controversially slated for a five-star resort, residential and commercial development. Project director Evan Aldridge said it was important to collect site information, in preparation for the start of development, while waiting for the judgement from the Court of Appeal later this year. Artist s impressions of Sekisui House s hotel and residential development at Yaroomba. A statement on behalf of the developer said that an earlier approval for the site, for a gated estate of apartments and houses, was still current and would be accommodated in the site investigation works.
Council planning staff and former CEO Michael Whittaker appeared at-odds over conditions for a rooftop bar in the Sekisui House Yaroomba Beach proposal just weeks before its approval. Internal emails released as part of a recent Sunshine Coast Council Right to Information disclosure of more than 3000 pages revealed differing opinions over the conditioning of usage for the rooftop aspect of the proposed hotel. On May 24, 2018, Mr Whittaker requested planning staff make some improvements to the presentation to be given at a workshop with councillors about a month before they voted to approve the controversial project 6-5 in a special council meeting.
The pair moved to Nairobi, Kenya, where their four children were born. They relocated back to the UK in 1950 before emigrating to Australia in 1959 to settle in Caloundra. Her husband died in 1969 and Ms Nelson-Gracie became an active Brownie and Girl Guide leader. She was instrumental in raising funds for the CCSA Hall in Caloundra and became active in the conservation movement as well as other support groups for the elderly. Ms Nelson-Gracie moved to Brisbane in her 80s before moving to Yaroomba about four years ago. It was that move that sparked a fresh involvement in conservation. Judy Nelson-Gracie made oven mitts which were sold to raise money for Save Yaroomba.
She said she didn t know which way planners were thinking in their assessment prior to the report coming before councillors. She said she d always had a lot of concerns about the proposal and said if she had her time over again she wished the council had purchased the site. The cohort of Sunshine Coast councillors elected in 2016 who voted on the Sekisui House proposal at Yaroomba Beach. Back row, from left, Greg Rogerson, John Connolly, Rick Baberowski, Steve Robinson, Ted Hungerford, Peter Cox, Christian Dickson. Front row, from left, Jenny McKay, Mayor Mark Jamieson, Tim Dwyer and Jason O’Pray.