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Subscriber only All but one of Gympie Regional Council s nine councillors has received a better report card from Gympie Times readers at the one year mark, than they were given six months ago. Mayor Glen Hartwig was top of the class with respondents to The Gympie Times online poll, scoring an A-minus for his performance 12 months into his first term in the top job. His result was buoyed by more half of respondents giving him an A (good), which boosted his grade from the B he was given in October last year. The remainder of Mr Hartwig s results were split almost evenly across grades B-E.
Noosa Mayor Clare Stewart. Pic Mark Cranitch. A teenager was killed in a four-wheel drive rollover in August, while two teenagers were flown to hospital after their four-wheel drive crashed on the beach last month.
The ABC revealed this week onlookers and rescuers at the scene of both the double drowning and fatal crash said they were unable to raise help from the beach due to a lack of phone reception, causing significant delays to emergency service response times. Noosa Shire Council Mayor Clare Stewart, also chair of Noosa s Local Disaster Management Group, told the ABC reception black spots in the area were a real concern .
Thirty four new blocks of land could soon be on the market on the Southside, with the developers behind the already approved subdivision asking for some changes to be approved. Developers Agent Holdings lodged an application to transform the subdivision on the eastern side of Southside by increasing the number of available blocks from 21 to 34. The subdivision near the decommissioned Southside dump, between Glastonbury Road, Litschner Road and Snake Creek, was initially approved in 2009. Under that scheme the blocks of land ranged from 6000 sqm to 3.1ha in size. If approved the development will be built in four stages.
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Urban sprawl is not on the menu as part of Mayor Glen Hartwig s vision for Gympie s residential development as the debate over the crowded nature of the region s new subdivisions continues. The question, raised by a letter to The Gympie Times on Monday, divided readers over whether affordable density or larger residential blocks were the future of the region s housing estates. Of particular concern was the amount of parks and green space within these developments. As it turns out, the region s planning scheme does not mandate a solution. There are no requirements for developments to have green space but the council s Open Space Strategy does identify parkland for different areas, and new applications are referred to the council s parks section for consideration.
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Subscriber only A speed reduction has been endorsed for a 3.75-kilometre stretch of road near the site of a fatal crash that killed a 29-year-old man at Wolvi last week. Josiah William Stevens was a passenger in a 4WD when it collided with a school bus full of children at a T-intersection on Kin Kin Road and Wilsons Pocket Road about 4pm last Tuesday. Josiah died at the scene. The driver of the car, Josiah s 68-year-old father Alan, was flown to the Royal Brisbane and Women s Hospital in a critical condition and with life threatening injuries. Alan Stevens (inset) is recovering in hospital after being injured in crash that killed his son at Wolvi last Tuesday.