Heritage protection, dealing with sea level rise and petitions from residents are on the agenda for Redland City Council’s next general meeting on Wednesday 15 September 2021.
Rally to support community engagement about Toondah proposal
ACF Community Bayside is calling for community support at a rally outside the Council Offices in Bloomfield Street on Wednesday 15 September 2021 from 8:45 to 9:45am.
This community rally will support a petition signed by more than 600 people calling for community engagement about Walker Group’s proposal to construct 3,600 apartments on wetlands next to Toondah Harbour.
The petition, initiated by ACF Community member Ms Vicki Salisbury, will be presented to the Council at this meeting by Cr Wendy Boglary.
Petition about road access to Ormiston subdivision
Cr Boglary will be presenting a petition from Ormiston residents about use of Francis Street to access a new subdivision in Ormiston.
This petition is the subject of a story by the Redland City Bulletin:
Ormiston residents oppose Francis Street as the access road for a 45 unit development
Unfinished business – local heritage protection
At its last meeting on 18 August 2021 councillors decided to postpone making a decision about adding more than 40 properties (mostly privately owned) to Redland City’s local heritage register.
This listing process has been a lengthy process involving expert assessment, public consultation and two cycles of review and approval by the State Government.
Many years of inaction on local heritage protection by Redland City have resulted in many properties with heritage value being lost to the City over the past three decades.
At present, the properties being considered for local heritage protection are protected by a temporary local planning instrument.
Two of the properties proposed for local heritage protection have attracted community interest because developers want to demolish the old homes as discussed by Redlands2030 in these stories:
Demolition of local heritage house in Cleveland
Wellington Point heritage property to be demolished
State heritage protection for Willards Farm?
An application for Willard’s farm to be included in the Queensland Heritage Register was submitted recently by Birkdale Progress Association President Ms Pam Spence.
The State Government has invited submissions regarding this application with a deadline of 1 October 2021.
A discussion about this heritage listing application has been scheduled for discussion at the Council’s September meeting under item 14.1.
Unfortunately, the officer’s report on this item had not been finalised by the time that the meeting agenda was published on the Council’s website.
Hopefully, the council will add this report to the publicly available meeting papers as soon as the report is made available to councillors.
An application for Willard’s farm to be included in the Queensland Heritage Register was made in 2016 but the application was rejected by the Queensland Heritage Council.
At the time when the 2016 application was made, the property was privately owned and not on a local heritage register which were factors that may have led to the rejection decision.
Once the Heritage Council rejects an application, a new application can not be submitted until five years has elapsed. That condition has now been satisfied.
Since the 2016 application for State Heritage listing, Willard’s Farm was acquired by Redland City Council and added to the Redland City Local Heritage Register.
It will be most interesting to see if Redland City Council decides to make a submission enthusiastically supporting Willard’s Farm being added to the Queensland Heritage Register.
Coastal Hazard Adaptation Strategy
On Wednesday, councillors will be asked to adopt a coastal hazard Adaptation Strategy for Redland City. This strategy “identifies how Council can manage the impacts of coastal
erosion, sea-level rise and storm tide inundation”.
A draft version of this strategy was the subject of community consultation in November 2020.
The officers’ report to Council says:
Submissions were reviewed by the protect team and consultant and where appropriate a number of amendments and clarifications were made to the strategy document. No major or substantive changes were required.
Confidential items on the meeting agenda
Three confidential items are listed for discussion at this meeting:
19.1 QUANDAMOOKA COAST NATIVE TITLE FEDERAL COURT CLAIM UPDATE
To update Council on the Quandamooka Coast Native Title Federal Court Claim.
19.2 EARTHTECK PTY LTD -V- REDLAND CITY COUNCIL APPEAL NO. 1915 OF 2021
To seek Council position on the development for the application in the Planning & Environment
Court.
19.3 PRELIMINARY AND DETAILED DESIGN FOR REDLANDS COAST SPORT AND RECREATION
PRECINCT
To outline the components of the Preliminary & Detailed Design phase of the Redlands Coast
Regional Sport and Recreation Precinct project.
Geotechnical and soil testing Cordia Close in Redland Bay
A proposal that Redland City Council authorise further geotechnical engineering assessment and soil testing into ground movement around sewer and water pipes in the area of Cordia Close, Redland Bay in Redland Bay is the subject of a motion to be moved by Cr Julie Talty (Item 17.1).
Council to continue with one meeting per month in 2022
In 2021 Redland City Council reduced the frequency of general meetings to one per month.
A report to Council (Item 13.3) proposes a meeting schedule for 2022 which will continue the practice of having just one general meeting per month.
Prior to 2021 Redland City Council scheduled two meetings in most months except for the months when there are school holidays.
About this Council meeting
This meeting is closed to the public.
The ‘public’ version of the 15 September 2021 meeting agenda (including officers’ reports for non-confidential items) can be accessed on the Council website.
The meeting will be video recorded (except for confidential discussions) and this video recording will be posted to the meeting video recordings webpage on the Council website. Videos usually appear within 48 hours of the meeting.
The Council usually publishes the meeting minutes about one week after the meeting. Meeting minutes include the wording of all resolutions adopted and details of which councillors voted for or against every resolution – including the confidential items. When published, the minutes will appear on this Council webpage.
Here are the contents of the agenda for Redland City Council’s meeting on 15 September 2021:
Redlands2021 – 13 September 2021
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