Development

Tower block stoush goes to planning boss Bleijie

A LONGTIME Riverview local says Ipswich City Council denied residents a fair go by not allowing them the right to appeal a development that has continued to mushroom in scale.

Rob Mellett

23 Apr 2025

Council

Swifts to get $2.6m for renovations, 30-year lease

RATEPAYERS will foot the bill to renovate the Swifts Leagues Club at Booval if a new lease currently under discussion is agreed upon.

Rob Mellett

11 hours ago

Ipswich Tribune

Shock as Rail Workshops housing plan emerges

QUEENSLAND Rail (QR) admits plans are afoot to redevelop the heritage-listed North Railway Ipswich Workshops.

Rob Mellett

11 hours ago

Development

Former Woogaroo owner loses Pisasale libel case

THE property developer who argued a news article wrongly depicted him as acquiring prostitutes for former mayor Paul Pisasale faces a huge legal bill after losing a long-running court case.

Rob Mellett

23 Apr 2025

Business

Koala William back home – but for how long?

WILLIAM the koala has returned to the forest, but are his days in the wild numbered?

Rob Mellett

23 Apr 2025

Ipswich

$4.5m Ripley sports centre could become Swifts home

ONE of Ipswich’s oldest sporting clubs could have a new home base in one of the city’s booming suburbs. Swifts Rugby League has been touted as a major tenant in plans for a $4.5 million sports facility in Ripley. Federal Member for Blair Shayne...

David Lems

16 Apr 2025

Sport

Ipswich invited to embrace ‘The Q’ as world-class facility

RACING Queensland official Jason Scott is eager to see Ipswich greyhound traditions embraced at ‘The Q’ when the multi-million dollar facility at Purga is open to the public next month. Scott said the Ipswich Greyhound Racing Club had served the...

David Lems

16 Apr 2025

Racing

‘The Q’ to open with world class features

THE multi-million dollar ‘The Q’ greyhound facility at Purga opens to the public next month with some of the world’s safest animal welfare practices. The greyhounds race on one of three specially designed tracks which are wider with cambers designed by the University of Technology in Sydney to suit dogs of all abilities.

David Lems

16 Apr 2025

Development

DAs: retirement home on flood zone; extra Ripley lots

PROPOSALS are before the council for a 44-unit retirement complex at Goodna.

Rob Mellett

16 Apr 2025

Ipswich Tribune

It took FOI to see secretive City Group reveg plan

THE two-and-a-half-year wait for the O’Possum Creek sewer line upgrade revegetation works promised by Springfield City Group have begun, but locals believe it will not be completed before clearing for Springview Village begins.

Rob Mellett

16 Apr 2025

State Politics

Public hearing for containers refund inquiry

A PUBLIC hearing will be held in Brisbane on April 30 as part of the inquiry into Queensland’s container refund scheme.

Rob Mellett

16 Apr 2025

Ipswich Tribune

Bold move to double size of hard rock quarry

BORAL Resources have applied to increase the extraction area of its hard rock quarry outside Peak Crossing by more than 45 percent.

Rob Mellett

16 Apr 2025

Development

Developer smashes koala trees despite DA refusal

A PETITION has been launched to protect endangered koalas from increasing habitat loss.

Rob Mellett

16 Apr 2025

Business

Primary producers want fire ant program reform

PRIMARY producers in Southeast Queensland met on Saturday to discuss solutions to what they say is an unsustainable and bureaucratic approach to fire ant management.

Rob Mellett

16 Apr 2025

Ipswich

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