You’re the mayor, and only ten percent of voters think your
council is heading in the right direction while seventy-one percent think it
isn’t. That would normally mean a career change, but maybe not on the Gold
Coast, with 54% of our sample supporting Clarke and only 16% Molhoek and 24%
Tate, his major challengers.
All candidates
in the Gold Coast City Council elections now have the opportunity to show where
they stand on planning and other issues through a "Residents' Questionnaire"
launched at Currumbin today.
The Currumbin
Residents' Action Group joined with the Broadbeach Action Group and other
community groups across the Coast to release the questionnaire "in
response to growing frustration and residents' concerns about a current
imbalance in the existing Council planning regime".
Spokesperson for
the Currumbin group, Jack McGregor, said residents were "sick and tired of
having to run large-scale campaigns to oppose deficient development
applications that should not have come close to being considered for approval
in the first place."
Currumbin residents campaigning against a proposed development by Resort Corp on Pacific Parade at Currumbin have festooned the houses on the street with unauthorised banners urging residents to vote for candidates who "support the townplan".
The development, opposite the exit from the Currumbin Surf Lifesaving Club carpark, is at the end of an easement between two older blocks of units. The proposal seeks approval for a 4 storey block of 15 units on a site that is currently zoned for 6 units and three stories. The development application only provides for 12 carparks.
All candidates
in the Gold Coast City Council elections now have the opportunity to show where
they stand on planning and other issues through a "Residents' Questionnaire"
launched at Currumbin today.
Currumbin residents campaigning against a proposed development by 