2015-06-29 Attachment 1 to Item 4 General Committee Agenda - Noosa Design Principles

                                                                  6000 BC    Evidence of indigenous habitation
                                                                     1770    Captain Cook sailed past

                                                                     1820    ‘Ticket of leave’ and escaped convicts arrived in Noosa

                                                                     1842    Andrew Petrie explored Noosa on his voyage to retrieve escaped convicts
                                                                     1859    Queensland became an independent state




  Image courtesy of Noosa Library Services/Picture Noosa
                                                                     1860    Bunya Proclamation repealed opening up formally protected forest areas




Fenwick Bros & Morrish Sawmill employees, Cooroy (c.1909)
                                                                     1860    Indigenous people massacred at what is now known as Murdering Creek
                                                                   1863-65   Noosa hinterland explored for timber resources and first timber cutters arrived

                                                                     1869    Tewantin established as the main river port for Noosa
                                                                             Walter Hay blazed a more direct route from Tewantin to Gympie
                                                                     1870
                                                                             to take advantage of the Gympie gold rush

                                                                     1871    Tewantin town surveyed
                                                                             Aboriginal reserve area allocated over Noosa Heads, Noosaville,
                                                                     1872
                                                                             Sunshine Beach and Peregian and west to Doonan




 View from the Hay family property, Noosa Drive, Noosa Heads
(c.1917) Image courtesy of Noosa Library Services/Picture Noosa
                                                                     1878    Aboriginal reserve cancelled
                                                                             The sand spit fronting Laguna Bay was surveyed for the Village of Noosa
                                                                     1879
                                                                             and allotments along Hastings Street offered for sale

                                                                             Remaining indigenous inhabitants within the Noosa district removed
                                                                     1887
                                                                             to settlements such as Cherbourg and Barambah

                                                                             Railway line opened between Cooran and Cooroy and three months later
                                                                     1891
                                                                             the missing link, Yandina to Cooroy, constructed

                                                                     1904    Kin Kin systematically cleared of scrub for dairying




 Image courtesy of Noosa Library Services/Picture Noosa
                                                                             Shire of Noosa constituted (severed from Widgee Shire),




Lenske bullock team at the Hotel Premier, Cooran (c.1920)
                                                                     1910
                                                                             Pomona became the administrative centre

                                                                             Council sold 447 acres to T.M Burke in exchange for constructing bridges
                                                                     1927
                                                                             over Lake Doonella outlet and Weyba Creek

                                                                             Noosa Village became the first town in Queensland to be planned
                                                                     1929
                                                                             and zoned before settlement
                                                                     1939    Noosa National Park gazetted (excludes Alexandria Bay)
                                Noosa Beach 1960’s




                                                                             Public lobbying resulted in the refusal of sand mining of
                                                                    1950’s
                                                                             Noosa Beach and Cooloola estate

                                                                             Emergence of a broadly based environmental group that became
                                                                   1960’s
                                                                             the Noosa Parks Association
                                                                    1960’s   Noosa featured in surf documentary “Surf Scene” and movie “The Hot Generation.”

                                                                     1965    Six Mile Creek Dam opened providing reticulated water to the towns of Noosa Shire

                                                                     1966    Noosa Heads sewage system completed

                                                                             Noosa Council first resolved to prepare a planning
                                                                     1968    scheme for part of the Shire
                                Noosa Junction 1980




                                                                     1969    Rock wall constructed on Noosa Main Beach

                                                                     1971    State Government development lease granted over what is now Noosa Sound area