Bring it on!

We’ve had plenty of feedback this week which is great to see..  We kick off today’s edition with John Neve’s thoughts on today’s council meeting then on to a few thoughts we’ve received from readers.  Cheers!

Planning & Development Committee Meeting No. 2
                             Wednesday 14 May, 2008
 
P&D 4 Officers’ Reports - Development Applications.
 
P&D 4.1  Community Centre and Community Garden
              10 - 30 Halcro Street, Pialba. Passed unanimously
 
Note       This is the old Telstra Depot under the now long gone
               towers. At the last count HBCC had 69 such halls!!
               All need maintaining and all need insuring, I asked
               some long time ago, how many days per week were
               they utilised? No answer. I asked could we not keep
               and maintain the best and sell the rest? No answer.
               Do we need another community hall? What is wrong
               with clubs sharing halls in the interest of cost
               effectiveness and efficiency?
 
P&D 4.2  Application for material change of use and operational
              work (tree removal), to facilitate 250 units and guest/
              residential facilities. 635 - 637 The Esplanade,Urangan
              Passed 10/1 Councillor Brooks voted against.
 
Note      This proposal does not fully comply with AS10.2,
             AS10.3, AS18.2, AS22.1, AS3.2, AS5.1, AS12.3,
             AS14.7, AS16.1, AS18.2 and AS22.1!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 
             These provisions cover parking, flora, vehicular access,
             sunlight and private open space, set backs, the list
             goes on. Once a precedent is set, it is very hard to
             deny others the same privileges and so our
             environment is destroyed.
 
P&D 9   Confidential 
 
P&D 9.1 Review of planning scheme policy No. 1 - Open space
             credit provisions.
 
Note      Any law or regulation that can’t or won’t be enforced is
             bad legislation and should be removed from the rule
             book or revised. Our council seem un-inclined to do
             either!
 
John A Neve  

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Dear Bringbackstrewth,
 
  I am an investor in the Fraser Waters Development at Toogoom, as unpopular as it would seem with the locals. This was not the view presented to us when we invested to develop the site as we are not high flyers, but merely a group of mums and dads who thought they were being included in a once in a lifetime opportunity.   Unfortunately this has not been the case as the investors have received little return in relation to the 5 years that this project has been operating.
 
Fred Kleinschmidt,  the chairman of our little consortium has announced that Craig McDermott has been removed as a Director and Chairman of Fraser Waters and Maxen Developments, Craig McDermott`s Property Development company has been terminated from the project.
 
As shareholders, several of us have queried Fred Kleinschmidt about the reasons why McDermott has been removed, so far he has ignored multiple requests for this information, as a matter of course he refuses to answer most questions in relation to the project.   So, if anybody out there does know why McDermott was sacked, please let us know.
 
Pete.