Organisation Sunshine Coast Association of Residents
The highest-ranked areas in an Australia-wide assessment of smart city performance are all in metropolitan regions with higher population densities. “Australia’s 60 top-performing local government areas house more than quarter of the nation’s population,” we note in the newly released Smart Cities Down Under report. As well as highlighting major […]
[OSCAR viewed the SCRC mayoral forum held by the Glasshouse Country Chamber of Commerce on 29 January; at the event there was a question on waste management that makes the following article particularly apt.] Total global waste is expected to double from nearly 2 billion tonnes in 2016 to an […]
[Source: Scott Sawyer, Sunshine Coast Daily, 24 January 2020] “URBAN transformation” in the right area is a key part of Sunshine Coast Regional Council’s long-term planning strategy, despite the current scheme not allowing townhouses on any size lot in low-density residential zones. A council spokeswoman said the planning scheme did […]
[Source: Westside News, 9 January 2020] Retired rural planner Howard Briggs, who helped draft the first regional plan for southeast Queensland, outlines where he believes it has gone wrong. Any development should be based on facts and be in the public interest. Development needs to be suitable for a site. […]
[Authors: Crystal Legacy, University of Melbourne; Brendan Gleeson, University of Melbourne; Jago Dodson, RMIT University, and John Stone, University of Melbourne] The privatisation of services in Australian cities has weakened public control of key infrastructure. This is likely to accelerate as governments look to market-led proposals to provide infrastructure. For […]