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Maroochyhorror
I've just gotten back from a trip up north. Just before leaving from Maroochydore Airport I almost drove off the road. Maroochy Shire Council is contender for the Worst Planning in Australia 2005 award having allowed about 6 huge tiltup monsters to be built along the coast here. And there are more to come. They are the tallest things for miles and appear to be closely related to the 7 storey crap apartment buidlings that ring most Spanish cities. These ones appear to have been built for out of towners who can't be bothered to drive more than 2 kms from the airport when they come up looking for sun.
Like many S.E. Queensland resorts, these buildings seem to have been designed by engineers interested in minimising cost but not much else.
Who is fighting the fight up that way, these things shouldn't still be getting built - isn't the Sunshine Coast meant to be reacting against the white shoe brigade's stuff up of Surfers Paradise in the 70s and 80s?
(google earth)
(from an accommodation web site)
(surfair)
The council plan for the area states
Sure.
Like many S.E. Queensland resorts, these buildings seem to have been designed by engineers interested in minimising cost but not much else.
Who is fighting the fight up that way, these things shouldn't still be getting built - isn't the Sunshine Coast meant to be reacting against the white shoe brigade's stuff up of Surfers Paradise in the 70s and 80s?
(google earth)
(from an accommodation web site)
(surfair)
The council plan for the area states
The natural environmental qualities of the North Shore, being the foreshores of the Maroochy River, beachfronts and the wallum heathland plains will be retained to preserve the environmental qualities of the locality and to provide a natural setting for residential and tourist development occurring within the Planning Area...
New development is to occur in recognition of the constraints presented by airport operations and the drainage characteristics of the area. In addition, it is to have a high standard of urban and landscape design which respects or enhances the environmental qualities and the existing attractive character elements of the area.
http://ww.maroochy.qld.gov.au/site/volume_3/3_9.html
Sure.
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