Supermarket giant joins growth area’s ‘much-needed’ $65m town centre
A developer’s plan for a huge $65m town centre slated for a fast-growing part of Toowoomba includes a new full-sized supermarket, with the new tenant revealed.
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How this former golf course could become an eco-escape
A golf course at the foot of the Toowoomba Range could be transformed into a nature-based escape, plans lodged to a regional Qld council reveal.
Federal MP takes aim at council over lack of splash park movement
As the summer mercury moves past 30C and Queensland faces heatwave warnings, it is time the Garden City revisit the question over why it has nothing more than a couple of ageing public swimming pools. HAVE YOUR SAY:
Bypass repairs to continue into 2025
Motorists are being warned repairs have been delayed on the Toowoomba Bypass.
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New $1.3bn hospital on track to meet planned opening date
The head of Darling Downs Health has provided an update on when the new Toowoomba Hospital will be open and what services it will house.
Why ratepayers could be hit twice for multi-billion dollar dam upgrades
A Toowoomba councillor has outlined why ratepayers across the region would be slugged twice for essential dam upgrades, which set to rack up a multi-billion dollar bill across Queensland.
Massive subdivision flagged as farmland in growth area hits market
Developers are circling after a prominent farming family placed a huge parcel of land in a key growth area outside Toowoomba on the market.
Supermarket, cafe planned for growing small town in two-year first
A large vacant parcel in a fast-growing Toowoomba region town could become the community’s most significant new development in years.
CFMEU officials promise to ‘bury’ Labor at upcoming state election
CFMEU officials in regional Queensland have promised to campaign aggressively against Labor at the upcoming state election after the militant union was forced in administration.
Moves made to reform council’s development ‘call in’ process
The Toowoomba council will explore changes to how elected officials can “call in” developments for special meetings, in a move that has been endorsed by a major player.
‘Here to help’: Developers join forces on massive housing estate
A new Toowoomba subdivision now under construction could eventually provide homes for more than 1600 people, as the city continues to battle a housing shortage.
‘Sad new low’: LNP’s youth crime pledge over grave desecration
The LNP has vowed to beef-up youth crime laws after teens that desecrated headstones at a historic Queensland cemetery were let off with a warning.
‘Verging on scandal’: Developers explode over project’s eight-month delay
The hold-up of a housing project for eight months by councillors has been met with outrage from Toowoomba’s development sector, which is calling for reforms.
‘Believe it when I see it’: Readers react to town’s housing project
Residents have been broadly positive in their reactions to a new community housing project slated for a small town north of Toowoomba.
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