Units vs houses: What’s being approved in the Garden City
While latest statistics show “business as usual” for Darling Downs building approvals, only a few approvals for one type of housing could spell complications in the future. Have your say:
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Council to release costs of legal battles in push for ‘transparency’
Exclusive: Kerry Shine wants the Toowoomba council to have to report the full cost to ratepayers of its legal stoushes with developers on controversial projects, a push for greater ‘transparency and accountability.
‘Stupidity writ large’: $1.7m traffic lights slammed amid bizarre trial
YOUR SAY: Toowoomba residents have weighed into an unusual plan to turn off the city’s newest set of traffic lights 20 hours out of a day, with many slamming the $1.7m project’s existence in the first place.
‘Great outcome’: Council to scrap after-hours animal drop boxes
The Toowoomba Regional Council will scrap its after-hours stray dog and cat drop boxes off the back of community concerns about animal welfare.
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Deputy mayor weighs into nuclear debate as water security ‘risks’ raised
One of Toowoomba’s most powerful elected officials has weighed on in a proposal for a nuclear reactor within a few kilometres of the region’s boundary.
Revealed: 136-place childcare centre coming to growth suburb
A massive new childcare centre could be coming to a fast-growing suburb of Toowoomba if it’s approved by the council.
How every Toowoomba household could get a tree
A leading regional environmental group has called for more trees to be planted in the less leafy suburbs of Toowoomba. Here’s how every household could get a tree.
‘Wake up’: Council workers strike over gender pay gap, low wages
Nearly 100 council workers have taken strike action outside City Hall to protest low wages and what some employees have called a “clear” gender pay gap within the organisation.
‘Phenomenal’: How philanthropists helped deliver $1.3m RSPCA clinic
Thousands of lost, surrendered and injured pets and wildlife will be treated on the Darling Downs, after mega-donors funded the RSPCA’s newest vet clinic.
‘Knife in my back’: Residents vow to fight approved city subdivision
Residents in Toowoomba’s western suburbs say they feel betrayed by the council after it backflipped on rejecting a Gold Coast developer’s plans for a 171-lot subdivision.
‘Euphoric’: Plan for new Toowoomba art museum hits key stage
Some of Toowoomba’s most influential people have laid out their vision for a massive new art museum that has reached a key stage with the council. Here’s what it could look like and where it could go:
City leaders discuss key priorities in ‘frank, open’ landmark meeting
Toowoomba’s political leaders have laid out their priorities for the coming years in a landmark meeting between three levels of government, which involved ‘open and frank’ discussions.
‘It’s bull—’: Gardner slams Wagner over $1.5m airport ‘free ride’
A war of words has erupted between two of Toowoomba’s most powerful businessmen over the aerodrome and its supposed cost to ratepayers. Read the comments here:
‘Slap in the face’: Airport users still in limbo despite council vote
While its future has been secured, tenants at the Toowoomba Aerodrome say their questions and requests to council over their leases have remained unanswered.
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