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1. Tue 6 Oct

   Meeting General Committee: 18 substantive items, 13 cued to video

   What was said General Committee transcript: 4 h 06 m transcribed, 18 voices, 6 named. Spoke longest: Cr Phillips 41 min, Mayor Wilkie 17 min, Deputy Mayor Stockwell 16 min

   Closed doors 1 item in closed session at the General Committee: Noosa Regional Gallery Detailed Business Case and Considerations

   Development OPW26/0145, 61 Noosa Springs Drive NOOSA HEADS, Clearing Vegetation under planning scheme.

2. Wed 30 Sep

   Development OPW26/0144, 512/61 Noosa Springs Drive NOOSA HEADS, Clearing Vegetation under planning scheme. 132002.220233.5, 46A Cooroy Noosa Road Tewantin, Change to Development Approval.

3. Tue 29 Sep

   Development OPW26/0143, 168 Eumundi Noosa Rd NOOSAVILLE, Carparking, Earthworks, Roadworks, Stormwater.

4. Mon 28 Sep

   Development RAL26/0027, 2 & 4 Paldao Rise Peregian Beach, Boundary Realignment. RAL26/0026, 380 Mckinnon Drive Cooroibah, Rural Residential. DBW26/0111, 35 Mary River Road & 0 Garnet Street Cooroy, Change to Community Activity. 3 short-stay letting applications.

5. Sun 27 Sep

   Issue The Lanyana Way land exchange

   Council voted 6–0 to pursue a swap of public car-park land with the owner of the former Noosa Heads Bowls Club site, thirteen days before a 208-apartment plan for that site was unveiled. What the public would receive in return has not been published. When a smaller housing project was proposed next door in 2024, the mayor fought it and it became an election issue. This one has barely been reported.

6. Fri 25 Sep

   Development MCU23/0137.01, 9 Saunders Drive Cooran, Change to Development Approval.

7. Thu 24 Sep

   Development OPW26/0142, 765/61 Noosa Springs Drive NOOSA HEADS, Clearing Vegetation under planning scheme.

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Issues

The history behind what they are debating this week.

• The Lanyana Way land exchange — Council voted 6–0 to pursue a swap of public car-park land with the owner of the former Noosa Heads Bowls Club site, thirteen days before a 208-apartment plan for that site was unveiled. What the public would receive in return has not been published. When a smaller housing project was proposed next door in 2024, the mayor fought it and it became an election issue. This one has barely been reported.
• The disclosure log Queensland stopped requiring — Until 1 July 2025 a Queensland department had to publish the documents it released under Right to Information, and had to keep a public list of every application it received. Both duties were repealed. Councils were never covered by either — and across the five financial years in which Noosa received sixty-eight RTI applications, thirteen entries were added to its disclosure log.
• The Doonan compost facility — Council approved up to $9 million towards a composting facility, conditional on a grant it has since applied for. It then announced the project in a media release carrying no dollar figure — and neither did any of the coverage that followed.
• Lions Park overflow parking — Council has run seasonal overflow parking on a Noosa Heads reserve for more than twenty years. On 11 August councillors were told to proceed on the basis that a land management plan was required, and voted down five attempts to test that. Nine days later they were told it was not required.
• The Wildfire waste agreement — Council has approved entering into a trial waste-supply agreement with Wildfire Energy without seeking tenders. The value, term, tonnage and start date are withheld, and the public record does not say whether the waste goes to Wildfire's existing Bulwer Island pilot plant or the commercial one scheduled for 2028.

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