Deputations and public questions to council, each opening on what council's minutes record of it.
2025-05-15
Public question
Ordinary Meeting
Wendy Scott
Heard at the meeting. Council's recording has these questions from 10:55; our transcript is below.
▶ Hear it — council's recording, from 10:55
The feed timestamps the whole public question block rather than each speaker, so this starts at the top of that block.
What the minutes record
Question 1
Council committed to consulting the community regarding the preferred use of Lots 2 and 3 at 62 Lake Macdonald Drive, Cooroy, with the understanding that the outcome may not involve further housing development. Given that this consultation has not yet taken place, why is Council proposing to invest hundreds of thousands of dollars in constructing a road and installing utilities to support housing on these lots?
Response from Kim Rawlings, Director Strategy & Environment
While no decision has been made about the future use of proposed Lots 2 and 3, any future use would likely be for some purpose for which people will be accessing the land, in higher numbers than they currently do. Whether people live there, work there or recreate there in the future, Council has decided to remediate and service the site.
Question 2
Does the Council’s definition of 'community consultation' refer specifically to consultation with the Cooroy community, where the land in question is located?
Response from Kim Rawlings, Director Strategy & Environment
Prior to the development of Lots 2 & 3 or even the commitment of their future use, Council will consult with the whole of its community. This would include targeted consultation with the adjoining residents and the immediate Cooroy neighbourhood, however it will also take into account the whole Shire and the needs of the Noosa Shire community. When the time comes there will be a range of communications methods used to share information and garner the views of the community.
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Transcript of the recording
What this is. Transcript of council's recording, produced by automatic speech recognition and not checked line by line against the video. Names and figures are where this kind of transcript fails first. It is our transcript, not council's record. Recording © Noosa Shire Council. Council's own recording is linked above; where the two differ, the recording governs.
10:55 Speaker 3: are from Wendy Scott. But Miss Scott is not in attendance but has requested that Pat Spicer read her questions which will again be answered by Kim Rawlings, Director of Strategy and Environment.
11:08 Pat Spicer: The question was, Council committed to consulting the community regarding the preferred use of lots two and three at 62 Lake of Donald Drive, Cooroy with the understanding that the outcome may not involve further housing development. Given that this consultation has not yet taken place, why is Council proposing to invest hundreds of thousands of dollars in constructing a road and installing utilities to support housing on these lots?
11:41 Director Rawlings: Thanks for the question for half a minute. Well, no decision has been made about the future use of proposed lots two and three. Any future use would likely be for some purpose for which people would be needing to access the land in higher numbers than they currently do. Whether people live there, work there or recreate there in the future. Council has therefore decided to remediate and service the whole site.
12:09 Pat Spicer: Does the Council's definition of community consultation refer specifically to consultation with the Cooroy
12:24 Director Rawlings: neighbourhood? Prior to any development of lots two and three or even a commitment to their future use, Council will consult with the whole of its community. This would include targeted consultation with the adjoining residents and the immediate Cooroy neighbourhood. However, it will also take into account the whole Shire and the needs of the Noosa community. When the time comes there will be a range
12:54 Speaker 3: to consider. We have a notified motion which has been withdrawn that brings us to consideration of committee reports. These were reports dealt with last week at the Planning and Environment Committee Portfolio of the Services and Organisation Committee Portfolio. 7.1 Housing Strategy Financial Incentives for Social and Affordable Housing We have a declaration. Council
13:32 Speaker 1: I wish to inform the committee that I have a terrible confidence in this matter, as I have been instructed not to announce the matter for three years with an indestructible carbon dysmotus, and the components of the structure have been critically fractured over three years with a secondary welding, and as this claim is emphasized, I stand in the way of an imminent final decision in making the decision that I am content with the lives and the circumstances. As a result, my confidence is that I will narrowly agree on the matter to be considered, and I am not.
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