On 28 July 2018 Sunshine Coast Regional Council commenced public consultation of several proposed major amendments to the Sunshine Coast Planning Scheme. Some of those amendments include restricting Dual occupancy development in the Medium density residential zone to lots with a minimum frontage of 15m. The purpose of this change is to prevent reconfiguration of…

Sunshine Coast Regional Council is changing their planning scheme. One of the changes includes strengthening the performance outcomes for Secondary dwellings (granny flats) to make it more difficult to obtain dispensations to things like maximum gross floor area (GFA) and minimum lot size. For some areas like Moffat Beach, Shelley Beach and Dicky Beach there…

Sunshine Coast Regional Council is changing their planning scheme. Changes include: Amending the zoning, overlays, precincts and/or planning provisions relating to a number of specific sites in Buderim, Chevallum, Dicky Beach, Eerwah Vale, Golden Beach, Kenilworth, Kunda Park, Landsborough, Little Mountain, Maleny, Mount Coolum, Pelican Waters, Witta and Woombye; Amending the zoning and the ‘Height…

In early 2018 one of our favourite Town planning Sunshine Coast clients – Vizion Group QLD qualified to ride in the annual ‘Hands across the water’ bike ride in Thailand. Never ones to do things in halves, two of the Directors, Dennis and Paula, rode 500km over five days in 40+ temps to raise $10,000…

The Palaszczuk government this week passed new tree-clearing laws in Queensland banning broadscale clearing of remnant vegetation by expanding the definition of high-value regrowth vegetation under the Vegetation Management Act 1999. The laws also now require approval to thin vegetation. The new laws are an attempt to curb deforestation by reinstating restrictions previously eased by…