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   Councils cant guarantee stability of steeply
   sloping land
    3rd Aug 2005 8:00 AM




MAROOCHY Shire Council cannot guarantee the stability of steeply sloping
blocks approved by private certifiers between 1998 and 2000.
And Noosa council officers have grave concerns about the recent approval of a
major development on Noosa Hill, which they said was too steep to build on.
The admissions come in the wake of the massive slip which has left at least
eight homes at Currumbin on the Gold Coast uninhabitable and in danger of
collapse.
Maroochy Shire has identified large portions of the Blackall Range and parts of
Buderim and Coolum as high risk for slippage.
Planning and Environment manager Julie Edwards said there was a two-year
gap in which council wasnt overseeing all the building approvals of homes on
those steep slopes.
In 1998 the law was changed which allowed private certifiers to approve
buildings without council approval.