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5:08AM Tuesday 02 December, 2008

Residents say 'I don't' to wedding centre

7 October 2008

| By Grant Reynolds

Revised plans for a wedding retreat in Tinbeerwah have done little to placate residents, who are worried it will destroy the peace and quiet of the hinterland area.

The man behind the Noosa Wedding Retreat last month extended an invitation for residents to look over plans for the proposed development, and at the time he said their input would help shape the design for Noosa’s first boutique wedding venue.

However, when Will Neil invited residents to view the plans, he said just one person took up the offer.

“We have done everything council has asked us to do, we’ve stuck to the Noosa Plan and addressed every issue raised in the 62 letters of objection,” he said.

Residents say a reduction in parking will inevitably mean cars have to park on the street and concerns have been raised about the redesign of the entrance. Concrete barriers meant to prevent headlights shining into neighbours’ houses have been described as an eyesore.

But the main bone of contention is the zoning – entertainment and dining or home-based business.

“The applicant is trying to distance themselves from an entertainment and dining business by not applying for a liquor license,” resident Paul Middleton said.

“What this means is that we have up to 100 guests being served alcohol in this quiet residential area and we don’t get any protection from liquor licensing regulations.”

Mr Neil said ABS figures showed the entire Coast region played host to about 9000 weddings a year.

“I plan to do 40 a year,” he said.

Council’s planning report is expected to be presented to the strategy and planning committee in November.

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Posted by Arjay from Maroochydore
on 7 October, 2008 at 1:49 p.m. ( Suggest removal )
Typical stuck-up Noosa,taking the tourist dollars happily, promoting the area as a fantastic destination to holiday, but veto every form of development that will contribute to well-being of the area for the coming years..newsflash Noosa, its not 1983 anymore, your little piece of untouched paradise HAS developed (just ask residents of Byron Bay what I mean) and the irony is most current residents that kick & whine probably holidayed themselves at some point before moving north permanently......things change,you can't avoid it.If 100 drinking guests at a wedding is a problem,what is the attitude to Hastings St on a weekend evening???? HAAA, it's probably some of your own children running amok. Get over yourselves,because for a town that thrives on hospitality,Noosa has without doubt the most UNhospitable people in Queensland.....seriously
Posted by Wellos from Tinbeerwah
on 7 October, 2008 at 2:58 p.m. ( Suggest removal )
Oh Arjay, one could well return the phrase "get over it". This is an issue about the local amenity of Tinbeerwah residents, not snobbery in Noosa. Try not to filter every issue in the Noosa region through your prism of prejudice. By the way, Hastings Street is a retail precinct and Tinbeerwah is rural residential. Got the difference?
Posted by Cooroy_Kid from Cooroy
on 7 October, 2008 at 4:27 p.m. ( Suggest removal )
NIMBY
Posted by Chichi from Tinbeerwah
on 7 October, 2008 at 6:51 p.m. ( Suggest removal )
OK seriously i live only a few houses down fro the proposed sight and honestly do not have a problem with this idea.

What is teh difference between a 100 people drinking in a orderly fashion compared to the parties that are being thrown at the holiday homes on the same street...i beleive many of you may remeber the good shepherds after party not to long back...music till 3 am, near or more a hundred underage kids setting off alarms and drinking? well you may not relise this but this happens on regular basis...we have learned to deal with it as there is NOTHING we can do. As for the wedding venue its a lovely idea in a perfect location and hope everyone should see the bigger picture.
Posted by Arjay from Maroochydore
on 8 October, 2008 at 4:13 a.m. ( Suggest removal )
Of course I see the difference between retail and rural "wello",my parents ran successful clothing stores in Hastings Street for over 20 years, and live in Maleny!! It doesn't mean it's immune from the after-effect of "one too many" just up the road.But I dont see this happening in Tinbeerwah because as invited guests at a wedding,people will generally behave a little better. The point you missed is that the north-south development capabilities are already stretched on the Coast and the Pacific Ocean kinda limits opportunity to the east... So,that only really leaves one option doesn't it,west,hence the reason residents in towns such as Maleny,Mooloolah and yes Tinbeerwah have concerns over these issues.But as we already know you can resist change but not always beat it,so you either learn to live with it or you change yourself not the progress around you.As for my "prism of prejudice", HA, its led me to travel here in Chile,where peolple have REAL cause to worry about REAL issues such as coming out of military dictatorships... I'm wondering if you were the 1(one!) person that actually viewed the revised plan. Thank you Chichi for calling the way it is...
Posted by Wojteck from Eumundi
on 8 October, 2008 at 3:33 p.m. ( Suggest removal )
One of the problems that the whole of the sunshine coast has is how to increase economic diversity while maintaining the character and amenity and lifestyle without significant change.
This tiny project with negligible impacts provides a different type and scale of wedding venue that doesn't yet exist in Noosa which is good for that industry and it has benefits for the wider community. And it is in the owners interests to preserve and enhance the rural character and biodiversity of the site.

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