A peak at How the Game is Played

It wasn’t as big as the Walloon turnout but the turnout was stacked with well educated talent locally and city wide punters all turned out to consume and challenge the Boyd Sargent Developer’s polished presentation assisted by the council employees including the Mayor.

Firstly Nicole Whysall must take the bow on getting this show up and running and driving it on behalf of all the Thagoona residents and Brett from council to actually host the event and did the refereeing of concerns the residents on the lower Thagoona floodplain.

Yes it was recognised as a floodplain last night and the developers terms of full or part time flood plane just didn’t cut it.

The terms of Jig Saw Development certainly did not install confidence of any of the punters and the fact that the two developers were not in sequence and did not take part fully in full project coordination and adopt the “First in you follow me to linkup “ principal civil engineering cast a more questions about not only the approval process but entire council and the confidence and cost to ratepayers in the long term. A fact I brought to the Mayor’s attention post meeting drawing comparisons of other councils whom adopted Pre Provisioning Principals before any approval process went forward. Straight through to the keeper

Open transparent was the spin, but when the history of the Girral Road Development actual communication when the said developer refused to answer calls brought that credibility to a halt forthwith by the totally disrespected resident.

The flood mitigation “ASSUMPTIONS “note “ASSUMPTIONS”that was conceded are based on the “assuming” the data from the hydrologists is a good guess and as we are playing the Ipswich Jig Saw planning game again confidence especially when we were informed the strategy was based on detention dam principals ABOVE the populated areas and other developers had to engineer their projects to suit the “first in’ process”. The Punters Apprehension hung heavy on this explanation I assure you.

To the Wildlife question we were treated with some extremely experienced and educated people who were well schooled and any effort to snow ball responsibility to the punters with compliance issues was met with the legislative laws and requests to have drone surveys of not only Koala ’s but the audit of existing wildlife impacted by all development projects in Thagoona.
Challenges of construction principals and in regard to erosion and water management through to the Bremer River were brought to the attention of both council and developers with has expanded interest in that is now a part that will be on our punters check list.

Again we were reminded of how fluctuating is this industry is we were informed that the Girral Road project is now under new ownership and even when we could not contact the developer for questioning, now we have a new developer even the council could not identify and even if he was checked out for past infringements…
We are conducting our own investigations into who we may have dialog with so be aware we what is said today may not be relevant tomorrow and council acknowledge that but they claim they have the right to intervene after the event is happened. Yep..

Im sure Thagoona people who attended will have their personal concerns and differing outcomes from this meeting and will still have more questions than answers but it was a informative on how developers conduct their business and my humble read was we at Thagoona have attracted more interest from outside and our interested actions is being noticed outside our Community with the same concerns about developers and the development processes and that culture within, highlighted the 5 story high rise hit at Thagoona station hit the ground like a lead balloon and attempts to soften the fall failed the pub test.

Overall a insight into the way the game is played and a learning curve but the apprehension remains, and when the Mayors data does not line up with residents information on project commencements and tenders that apprehension is justified..

The Girral Grump.