IN OCTOBER the QPRC council majority, team Overall plus Councillors Hicks and Schweikert, appointed a consultancy to again look at the E4 zone approved by Palerang and the NSW state. Singled out for review are two rural residential localities that have long been the lobbying focus of a group of
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Local politics in the Capital region and surrounds.
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
Crony politics at QPRC
Sacrificing Wamboin/Bywong & rail trail for majority vote? COMMENT by Maria Taylor. AT THE 13 December council meeting a mutually agreeable voting alliance between Team Overall (with four votes) and two councillors who gained seats from Palerang became about as transparent as suspected backroom deals will allow. As Councillor Peter Marshall said after
Police to stay put: QPRC back to drawing board
By District Bulletin Council Watch. IT LOOKS LIKE it’s back to the drawing board for Queanbeyan-Palerang Regional Council (QPRC) on a new administration building. But that’s not all bad news. QPRC’s efforts to entice the NSW Police to move from their current Queanbeyan station into the proposed six-storey, $57 million council headquarters
QPRC HQ still uncertain, but demolition works flagged
Question raised re caretaker timing of EDE contract. By District Bulletin Council Watch. THE FATE OF the proposed new council administration building, public space and underground parking in Queanbeyan remain uncertain, with no word on whether the NSW Police will occupy two of six proposed levels. More than a month since the new