Developer Mirvac says it has reached a major demolition milestone at the ravaged Toombul Shopping Centre site. But it blames the need for complex flood modelling for long delays, which last month saw the local federal MP blast the company.
Lord Mayor Adrian Schrinner has announced that short stay property owners will face tough new laws. Here’s what will change and what owners will have to do.
The owners of more than 400 homes in low-density Brisbane suburbs face being told to remove their properties from the short-term rental market as part of a major council crackdown.
Lord Mayor Adrian Schrinner has asked the State Government to hand over some of the $800 million in fare revenue the Brisbane Metro is expected to generate in its first decade. It comes as a final $248 million is poured into the project by Council.
Brisbane’s rates are going up again with Adrian Schrinner blaming the State Government for starving councils while it wallows in coal royalties. SEARCH YOUR SUBURB
Upgrades for a busy northside road, completion of a green bridge and westside intersection, reforms to short stay accommodation and masterplans for bayside and northside beauty spots are some of the highlights of this year’s Brisbane City Council Budget.
A state government official has apologised to more than 100 residents of a semirural suburb near Brisbane after they were hit with a four-day aerial bombardment without warning.
A community in Greater Brisbane which has been hit by plane noise should enjoy much-needed relief if proposed new flight paths come into effect. But a residents’ group says federal authorities are just “playing at the fringes’’.
A senior Brisbane federal politician has slammed developer Mirvac over delays and a lack of information about its plans to revamp the flood-wrecked Toombul Shopping Centre.
Commonwealth Bank will shut yet another suburban branch, this time in an inner-west suburb which has seen a wave of closures despite its elderly population.
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