Crescent Rd church with $106k debt put up for sale

A church regularly used by Gympie artists is at risk of being sold out from under its owners due to a six-figure unpaid rates bill.

Gympie Regional Council (acting CEO David Lewis pictured) has notified the owners of an historic church at Crescent Rd it intends to sell the property over an unpaid rates bill worth more than $100k.

A historic church on Crescent Rd is one of two properties Gympie Regional Council has moved closer to selling over unpaid rates bills totalling hundreds of thousands of dollars.

The council has issued intent to sell notices over the church and a vacant block of land at Kristen Rd, Curra.

Notices placed on the popular Buy, Search, Sell website reveal the owners of the church owed the council a total of $106,658 in unpaid rates and charges.

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This included $47,852.98 in unpaid rates as of October 14, 2022.

Another $58,805.48 was accrued in interest on the unpaid rates.

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A notice of intention to sell published online by Gympie Regional Council has revealed the owners of a historic church at Crescent Rd owe $106,658, including $58,805.48 in interest.

Interest on the unpaid rates bill rose at a rate of 11 per cent until 2019, then slowly dropped to a rate of about 8 per cent in the subsequent years.

The owner of the vacant Curra block was $11,150 in debt to the council.

An undeveloped block at Kirsten Dr, Curra, is intended to be sold by Gympie regional Council over an $11k unpaid rates bill.

This included $8821.14 in unpaid rates.

If the owners of these blocks have not paid these outstanding debts by mid January 2023, the properties will be auctioned off.

The properties must be sold within six months of the notices being issued.

The council has previously been called on by the region’s artists to reconsider its plans to sell the Crescent St church, saying it was one of the only remaining spaces left in the city for rehearsals and storage.

The building dates back to the 1870s.