Closed-door decisions beg question: what’s in it for ratepayers, existing businesses? TWO YEARS AFTER QPRC interim Administrator Tim Overall approved an exclusive in-principle agreement to sell multiple council sites to a single consortium without a public tender, details are finally starting to emerge about the arrangements, raising questions about who the
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Finding: Administrator overstepped in land sales approval
QUEANBEYAN-PALERANG MAYOR Tim Overall breached the Local Government Code of Conduct when he considered an in-principle agreement to sell multiple blocks of council land to a consortium of developers in 2016, according to a finding of the NSW Office of Local Government (OLG). The OLG made the finding in response to
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QPRC okays $100,000 special interest consultancy
First CBD redevelopment project bypasses ratepayer scrutiny
THE FIRST SALE and redevelopment of QPRC land in the Queanbeyan CBD under a confidential agreement will bypass council’s inhouse approval process. The project is for a serviced apartment hotel, restaurant/café and residential townhouses. It will be undertaken over three stages. Details, including size and scale, are limited. Councillors approved the sale
QPRC ratepayer: downtown bids, plans, and value for money?
Transparency, please. WITH THE AMALGAMATION of Queanbeyan and Palerang councils into the QPRC, our new regional council inherited numerous Queanbeyan valuable CBD council-owned buildings. In the QPRC administrative phase, the administrator and general manager, (now Mayor and CEO) accepted for consideration an unsolicited proposal from one consortium, to help council develop these
QPRC balks at fees to local government peak body
IN A PERPLEXING move, Queanbeyan-Palerang Regional Council (QPRC) has recently voted to withhold its membership fees for the state’s peak local government body and a major advocate for councils – Local Government (LG) NSW. The decision was made at the July ordinary meeting of council. It appears to have been prompted
Queanbeyan construction impacts rattling neighbours, council: ‘not our problem’
Calling ‘time’ on democracy at QPRC?
Queanbeyan Jumping Creek Estate: bushfire risk sinks in, conservation block proposed
A PORTION OF the land on the Queanbeyan Eastern Escarpment earmarked for housing development will likely be protected for its environmental values instead. The move is significant because the area is a wildlife corridor connecting eastern and western ranges. The land has significant environmental values and includes one km of river