2014-10-14 Planning & Organisation Committee Agenda - Pages 51 - 117

PLANNING & ORGANISATION COMMITTEE MEETING AGENDA   14 OCTOBER 2014




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PLANNING & ORGANISATION COMMITTEE MEETING AGENDA                                                 14 OCTOBER 2014

           Eye                        PROPOSAL FOR A BOUNDARY CHANGE

               HISTORY OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT BOUNDARIES IN THE SUNSHINE
               COAST AND COOLOOLA REGIONS

               In the 19" Century all Queensland local government boundaries were drawn up
               based on water catchments and rivers as these often formed useful natural
               boundaries to define communities at a time of few roads and bridges.
                a                           "           .           In the last 125 years there have
                                       -       =   4                been     a    number      of   significant
                                     55                             boundary changes in the Sunshine
                        LL                      —             5     Coast Region, mainly in response to
                                                                4) increased population and changed
                           4              '                     &   settlement patterns.        In all there
                       2    ="     pa oa   :                     _  have    been     nine   major    changes
                   "                       a)                  I    usually encompassing splitting new
                             =            ,       Ih            ,   local government areas into smaller
                5          =                                   Ps   units,     but     also _  incorporating
                      te                                            boundary realignments such as the
                    ,                                               incorporation      of    Buderim       and
                a           i               '                    ~  Kenilworth     into   Maroochy      Shire?
                “       .                        ;             _    and the southern end of Peregian
                                                               ~*   Beach into Noosa Shire in 2003.?

               When the Local Government Reform Commission was established to investigate
               Council amalgamations in 2007 our community argued strongly for Noosa Shire
               not to be amalgamated with Maroochy and Caloundra Shires but instead to make
               a   boundary change to         incorporate the      EDV   areas    into  Noosa.      This  was
               supported by the Coolum and Peregian Springs communities who argued that

               2 In 1879, part of the area north of Brisbane was called the Caboolture Division and encompassed some of the
               current Moreton and all of the Sunshine Coast local authority areas. North of Caboolture Division, Widgee
               Division included the area north of Caboolture as far as Gympie. Maroochy shire (then Division) split away
               from Caboolture in 1890 and much later on Buderim in the south and Kenilworth in the north east became part
               of that Shire. The Noosa Shire was formed by being excised from Widgee Shire together with a small strip
               along the northern border of Maroochy in 1909 and was formally established in 1910. The Shire of
               Landsborough was split away from Caboolture in 1912 and in 1987 was renamed the City of Caloundra.
               3 In the early 1990s, the State Government undertook a major review of local government boundaries across
               Queensland inviting submissions from local government. At the time, the Noosa Council made a submission
               based on the following areas being included in Noosa Shire in order of priority:
                   =   First, the whole of the Lake Macdonald catchment (at the time Noosa’s only source of raw water) with
                       some of the catchment outside of the Shire);
                   =   Second, the whole of the Lake Weyba catchment;
                   .   Third, the whole of the urban area of Peregian Beach.
               No changes were made to the Noosa boundaries at that time; however pressure for change continued with
               momentum gathering for the southern area of Peregian Beach to be shifted into Noosa Shire which occurred in
               2003.

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               Submission from the EDV Group

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