Thursday March 11, 2010. Noosa Heads Time: 3:13 pm

Join our campaign against Noosa Civic 3

Why you must oppose Civic 3

  • contrary to the Noosa Business Centre plan
  • would create traffic congestion
  • stops new office development, stops a new transit centre and reduces employment opportunities to the detriment of Noosa
  • Has an unsupportable impact on shopping existing centres
  • exceeds the (retail) needs of the community and at a minimum is excessively premature and; Finally
  • it relies on inadequate or irrelevant planning grounds to justify its
    existence

We urge you to help us stop Civic 3

Noosa Junction and the surrounding shopping areas are faced with a retail planning catastrophe.

Stockwell is trying to steamroll the Noosa Business Centre Master Plan to turn Civic is a major shopping centre that will crush the retail network fabric of the entire Noosa area.

The Sunshine Coast Regional Council has commissioned a study of the Noosa Business Plan that rejects Civic 3 but it needs your support.

If you oppose Civic 3 then you please make a submission to the Sunshine Coast Council as soon as possible.

This web site contains letters, reports and all the information for you to make a submission.

Click here to download a letter that you can sign and send in ASAP – please add any comments you think appropriate.

Please email your comments to thenoosaplan@sunshinecoast.qld.gov.au as soon as possible.

Please send a copy of your letter to info@noosajunction.org

For further information go to: http://www.noosa.qld.gov.au
/PlanningDevelopment/PDWhatsNew/PDWhatsNew.shtml

Candidates oppose Civic 3

Noosa region retailers are very concerned that Stockwell proposes to add 36,000 sqm of retail floor space to Noosa Civic in its proposed Stage 3 of the development. This has been opposed by the Sunshine Coast Shire Council officers and experts because it contravenes planning regulations. Even Stockwell agrees with that in his application. Do you oppose or support the Civic 3 development?

When asked this question at a Noosa Chamber of Commerce meeting on Wednesday night (4 March 2009) all four candidates in the State Election opposed Noosa Civic 3 Shopping Centre:

Noosa candidates opposed to Noosa Civic 3 are:

  • Glen Elmes - NLP sitting member
  • Brian Stockwell - ALP candidate
  • Cate Molloy - independent candidate
  • Steven Haines - Green candidate

"Each candidate assured concerned residents they were against the over-development that could occur with the proposed third stage of the Noosa Civic Shopping Centre.

"They also agreed any further retail expansion over open space could impact heavily on Noosa’s smaller retail operators." reported in the Noosa News 06 March 2009.

Contact your councillor with your concerns!

Follow this link to the email address to send your letter to your local councillor.
http://www.sunshinecoast.qld.gov.au/sitePage.cfm?code=councillor-details

Noosa Civic Business Park not Noosa Civic Retail Park

We want real jobs for the children of Noosa

IN 2006 the Noosa Council took a remarkable and forward thinking step when it established the Noosa Business Centre Plan to provide a sustainable and diversified employment base for our community for the next 20 years. The vision was for long term, quality jobs for our children in a business park that linked to a wide range of community and social services in an ecologically sustainable environment and accessed by an efficient public transport interchange.

The Noosa Business Centre was designed to diversify the Noosa economy and add to the quality of life and economy of the region.

The Noosa Business Centre has now become Noosa Civic Business Park and the developer Stockwell is trying to take out the majority of the “business” and replace it with retail!

Since then Stockwell has fought and won to build a shopping centre in the development – Civic 1 – and is now trying to triple its size. He will achieve this by ripping $50 million a year out of Noosa Junction and poaching as many shops as he can into the new centre, ripping the retail and social hearts out of Tewantin, Noosa Junction and Noosaville in the process.

All this at a time when Noosa retailing is just starting to recover from
Civic 1 that opened in 2006.

Council reports point out (attached) that Civic 3 will have a devastating short term effect on retailing in Noosa and will create traffic snarls, strangle public transport and remove any chance for a social and civic hub for Noosa region residents.

Stockwell admits Civic 3 is contrary to the planning scheme and seeks to justify it through a variety of reports that have all been rejected by the Sunshine Coast Regional Council planning officers. In their rejection of the development Council officers described Civic 3 development as:

  1. contrary to the Noosa Business Centre plan
  2. would create traffic congestion
  3. stops new office development, stops a new transit centre and reduces employment opportunities to the detriment of Noosa
  4. Has an unsupportable impact on shopping existing centres
  5. exceeds the (retail) needs of the community and at a minimum is excessively premature and; Finally
  6. it relies on inadequate or irrelevant planning grounds to justify it existence

In addition, Noosa Civic 3 will further dilute the character of the Noosa region by replacing local shops with national chains and destroying the small shopping centres that provide the Noosa region with so much of its character.   This is your last chance to have your voice heard as a resident, employee, business person on shop owner in Greater Noosa.

Please use the material provided to draft your support of the Noosa Business Centre Master Plan and have it lodged as soon as possible.