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Local issues to be presented to LGAQ By Margie Maccoll It was a tough call by Noosa Beach Classic Car Show Committee to postpone the annual Car Show last Sunday.
Car show postponed It was a tough call by Noosa Beach Classic Car Show Committee to postpone the annual Car Show last Sunday. Show director Steve McGloin said the impending rain event put the chance of damaging the cricket oval at high risk. “The ground was okay to walk on, but not traverse cars. A mud bath was a certainty,” he said. In collaboration with Council and the Tewantin Cricket Club, they have rescheduled the event to Father’s Day, Sunday 4 September. Car entries have now reopened, so if you missed out first time or want more event information go to noosacarclub. com.au The response from traders and car exhibitors to the rescheduling has been very favourable, a destination for Father’s Day. Hoping favourable weather shines on the Classics the second time round.
Noosa Council will present five submissions to the Local Government Association of Queensland 2022 annual conference, each calling for action by the State Government. Three of them call on the State Government, and in one case, Federal Government, to make changes relating to the energy provisions in homes, one requires State Government to review recycled water reuse statewide and report results to councils, water authorities and retailers and the fifth asks the State Government to review its property assets for their potential use for social, affordable and crisis housing. In its first submission council will be asking “that the LGAQ calls on the State Government to make changes to the relevant legislation being the Local Government Act 2009 and the City of Brisbane Act 2010 that would enable local governments to offer Environmental Upgrade Agreements”. Council’s general meeting heard that the legislation changes would essentially enable council to operate as a bank through which residents could purchase environmental upgrades, being modifications to existing buildings to improve energy and water efficiency, such as the installation of solar panels, and repay the amount through rates. Similar programs were already operating across councils in Victoria, NSW and South Australia. The second motion asked the LGAQ to call on the State Government “to abandon their position that prevents Council’s from codifying requirements for energy efficiency, solar
Noosa Council in session. power and other emissions reduction and adaptation provisions relevant to new development in their Planning Schemes”. At present the state planning department can’t include provisions on matters dealt with in the National Construction Code but this works against communities with ambitious targets on emission reductions, the meeting heard. The third submission asks that the LGAQ call on the State and Federal government to approve the Australian Building Codes Board’s recommended updated energy provisions for new homes, at the next Building Ministers Forum. Council heard the updated energy provisions follow a collaborative 3-year process led by the Australian Building Codes Board (ABCB) and would result in better performing homes resulting in lower energy bills. The remaining two submissions request
LGAQ lobby the State Government on two issues. One is to “undertake a state wide analysis of recycled water reuse that values the protection of local ecosystems and provides suitable data to assist councils and water authorities and retailers in producing business cases for water re-use”. The second is to undertake “a holistic review of all State property assets for their potential for short to medium term housing outcomes, including crisis housing, social housing and affordable housing; and to work with councils to identify new opportunities for State Government of Queensland housing investment across Local Government in Queensland”. Read more on this issue on P19. Councillors unanimously supported the submissions to be put forward to the LGAQ conference to be held in October.
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