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By Sonia Isaacs
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THE president of Beerwah’s 90-year-old cooperative says the board had “the rug pulled out from under it’s feet” after discovering it’s long-held lease over the Simpson Street co-op and service station would not be renewed by the Department
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of Transport and Main Roads (TMR). Ahead of construction of the $5.5 billion Wave rail line from Beerwah to Caloundra, including a major upgrade of the local train station, the co-op has been told it will have to move out of its longterm premises. Beerwah Co-op board president, Ken Bullen,
said the board had “every reason” to believe the lease over the State-owned rail corridor land was a longterm rolling arrangement, only discovering otherwise after it sought reassurance ahead of planned upgrades. “The previous boards had negotiated what they understood to be a permanent arrangement.
Otherwise you wouldn’t put fuel tanks in the ground,” Mr Bullen said. He said successive co-op directors had invested significantly in the site installing underground fuel tanks, constructing the shed and establishing the Shellbranded service station on the understanding it was a secure, long-term home.
The historical view, he said, was that the lease operated on a five-by-five basis renewed every five years, with an expectation it would continue indefinitely. “There was no indication to the current board that there was any chance of that lease not being renewed,” he said. Story p6-7
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