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Negligence: Cats claw chokes out Bellbird Park

INVASIVE pest Cat’s Claw Creeper is choking trees at Bellbird Park bushland – on land set aside for wildlife as a condition for allowing the building of homes on core koala habitat.

Rob Mellett
02 Apr 2025
Business

Upgrades roll out at Somerset Dam

SEQWATER has appointed contractors to upgrade the Somerset Dam.

Rob Mellett
26 Mar 2025
Ipswich Tribune

RTI withheld on Jackal fibro stockpile reduction

THE Environment Department has held back on releasing right to information data on an Ipswich waste company that has been ordered to reduce huge stockpiles of fibre cement board.

Rob Mellett
19 Mar 2025
Ipswich Tribune

Parkland option remains at WM Hughes St

THE Council says the door remains open to revisit plans to buy back a development site for use as public recreation space.

Rob Mellett
19 Mar 2025
Ipswich Tribune

How rural anger at solar plan split a community

AFTER decades of hard work on their dairy farm, the Blanch brothers didn’t think twice when they were approached by a “renewables” developer with what appeared to be an offer they couldn’t refuse.

Rob Mellett
19 Mar 2025
Ipswich Tribune

State okays Bellbird Park core koala habitat clearing

STATE Development officials have consented to the building of 73 dwellings at Bellbird Park.

Rob Mellett
12 Mar 2025
Ipswich Tribune

‘Intolerable’ – North Ipswich floodplain DA blocked

COUNCIL planners on Monday knocked back a controversial development application proposing 472 units on a North Ipswich floodplain.

Rob Mellett
05 Mar 2025
Development

Forest decision on March 21

THE judgement on approval for the Stockland Springview Village 3 plan at Woogaroo Forest will be made by council planners on March 21 after being delayed again last month.

Rob Mellett
05 Mar 2025
Ipswich Tribune

No leachate plan in Candy Soil Ebenezer plan

THE council has permitted Tivoli composter Candy Soil three months to fix up issues on its development application for its proposed move to Ebenezer.

Rob Mellett
26 Feb 2025
Ipswich Tribune

Rally against industrial solar on rural land

THE Lower Mount Walker Community Action Group staged a rally attended by around 90 residents who heard from guest speakers on the possible effects of proposed industrial solar projects on their doorsteps.

Rob Mellett
26 Feb 2025
Business

Deadly forever chemical PFAS in ant baits

BAITS used in the fire ant eradication program contain deadly cancer-causing chemical PFAS, The Tribune can reveal.

Rob Mellett
26 Feb 2025
Ipswich

Ipswich biodiversity now at tipping point

RESIDENTS met in North Ipswich on Sunday to discuss solutions to what they say is a looming liveability crisis facing future generations.

Rob Mellett
19 Feb 2025
Ipswich Tribune

Facelifted Booval Fair dining soon to open

NEWLY facelifted Booval Fair will open soon, bringing fresh food and dining options.

Rob Mellett
19 Feb 2025
Ipswich Tribune

Rally against BESS this weekend

A COMMUNITY rally will be held on Saturday to raise awareness about the potential effects local industrial solar facilities will have on locals.

Rob Mellett
19 Feb 2025
Ipswich Tribune

Call for development freeze as wildlife decimated

LONGTIME Thagoona residents say local wildlife is being decimated on the roads as the rollout of local housing developments continues apace, bringing with it an increasing volume of traffic.

Rob Mellett
19 Feb 2025
Development

Townhouses eyed in quiet Bundamba suburb

PLANS have been submitted to subdivide four lots into 41 lots and rezone land for multiple residential use at Bundamba.

Rob Mellett
12 Feb 2025
Ipswich Tribune

Have your say on historic school’s future

RESIDENTS are invited to comment on plans for the Old Tallegalla School in the city’s west.

Rob Mellett
12 Feb 2025
Ipswich

Springfield City Group leaves forest a mess

TWO years after a large section of Woogaroo Forest was cleared as part of a sewer line upgrade, Ipswich residents say they have given up hope the area will be revegetated and have begun planting trees themselves.

Rob Mellett
05 Feb 2025
Ipswich

Show cause notice flouted at W M Hughes Street

AN EARTH moving truck made continuous journeys to fill a North Ipswich property development with dirt several days after the council slapped the property developer with a show cause notice.

Rob Mellett
05 Feb 2025