PBCAIMay 41 minIs TOURISM NOOSA working in OUR best interests ?The pandemic has changed everything we took for granted just a few months ago. Some of those changes may be for the good, if we manage them properly. For in...
PBCAIMar 251 minANOTHER WIN FOR PBCA AND COUNCILNoosa Council and the Peregian Beach Community Association have had another victory in the marathon battle to retain the Town Plan protections of the old car...
PBCAIMar 211 minPBCA URGES A VOTE FOR EXPERIENCE.Dear members, Many of you have received emailed voting advice from the developer-connected, Peregian Springs based group PFAFA, using an email list taken fro...
PBCAIMar 123 minTHE CANDIDATES’ FORUM THAT BECAME A “PRO-DEVELOPER FARCE”. Only one mayoral candidate, Clare Stewart, attended, and only one sitting Councillor, Jess Glasgow, attended. The Peregian Beach Community Association says i...
PBCAIMar 73 minSO THERE'S A CLIMATE EMERGENCY. WHAT IS NOOSA DOING ABOUT IT?FACT CHECK: NOOSA COUNCIL CLIMATE ACTION Responding to the Climate Emergency isn't just a national and state issue, it is the responsibility of local governm...
PBCAIFeb 202 minCouncillors elected on 28 March need to be committed to ratifying the new Noosa Plan Mayor Wellington has announced the New Noosa Plan is a step closer with Minister’s sign-off The New Noosa Plan is a step closer to implementation after getti...
PBCAIFeb 102 minThe developer’s long game.Some developers, it seems, are prepared to wait for as long as it takes to maximise their profits by trying to slide around the Noosa Town Plan. It’s confirm...
PBCAIFeb 43 minWE MUST DEFEND OUR LINE IN THE SANDThe Noosa Shire we love stands in defiance of the urban sprawl and high rise that many Queenslanders call ‘the coast’. Over the decades, community groups lik...
PBCAIFeb 11 minNOOSA COUNCIL CANDIDATES FORUMPeregian Beach and Marcus Beach residents, please put this one in your diary for March 21st. PBCA is organising a forum of mayoral and councillor candidates,...
PBCAIDec 17, 20191 minDEFUSING THE SHORT STAY EXPLOSIONWhile it makes some investors and real estate agents money, the explosion of Short Stay rentals is 'hollowing out' residential neighbourhoods and turning qui...
PBCAINov 13, 20199 minPBCAI opposes attempt to build dwellings instead of Motel due to lack of finance"Thomco is now not prepared to risk financing the project, but wants the community to take the risk that Thomco will develop the Motel in the future. Thomco’...
PBCAINov 10, 20191 minSUBMISSION ON THE PROPOSED LOCAL LAW FOR SHORT-TERM ACCOMMODATION (STA)PBCA supports the proposed local law for STA and the arrangements proposed: · to ensure that complaints from nearby residents can be promptly dealt with and ...
PBCAINov 10, 20194 minPBCAI SUBMISSION RE SIGNIFICANT CHANGES TO THE DRAFT NOOSA PLANTo Noosa Council nnpsubmissions@noosa.qld.gov.au I am writing on behalf of the Peregian Beach Community Association Inc in response to the release of signi...
PBCAINov 1, 20194 minExclusive: State puts brakes on controversial PFAS releaseBILL HOFFMAN, Sunshine Coast Daily 1st Nov 2019 10:22 AM THE controversial pipeline intended to pump treated PFAS-affected water from the Sunshine Coast Airp...
PBCAIOct 31, 20192 minRight to Know denied on Sunshine Coast Airport Expansion Project Why has the Sunshine Coast Council (SCC) denied the public the right to know what it is doing in up-grading and privatising the airport? “Council has publish...
PBCAIOct 18, 20192 minMEETING POSTPONEDDue to unforeseen circumstances, the public meeting this Sunday is being postponed. FPF will be sure to get back to you with a further update when t...
PBCAIOct 17, 20192 minWhy does SCC now want to shut down the $200 million existing runway?Is is because they stuffed-up the parking with jets extending out over the new runway and now have to use part of the existing runway as a taxi-way to the new...
PBCAIOct 16, 20191 minBlasting at the location is completely incompatible with aviation activities at low altitudesThis is the EVIDENCE given to SCC which they now want the community to ignore because it is inconvenient to the airport expansion. The written advice from St...
PBCAIOct 14, 20191 minWhat a difference a year makesTwelve months ago our PBCA Bushcare group worked with National Parks to revegetate the degraded area next to the IGA . The trees have shot up from tube stock...
PBCAIOct 7, 20192 minSCC refuses to assess safer alternative flight paths. Why?There is no evidence of a comprehensive, comparative safety assessment of alternative flight paths by Sunshine Coast Council (SCC) and consultants; either be...