Florence St closure vital for safety, claim residents

CLOSE Florence St and make the potentially dangerous intersection with Vernon Tce safer for pedestrians and motorists, while adding benefit to businesses and residences in the area, urged Teneriffe Progress Association president Ben Pritchard. Mr Pritchard said: “We’ve got very good grounds that say that’s the right thing to do. Two reasons: one is pedestrian [...]

Street improvement plan rejected by residents

RESIDENTS have resoundingly voted no to the Brunswick and Barker streets Suburban Centre Improvement Plan (SCIP). Cr Vicki Howard (Central Ward) who was a keen advocate of the SCIP was disappointed with the result. “It would have been a great opportunity to get additional special features to that area that council can’t do,” she said. [...]

New Farm residents asked to fund improvement plan

A PLAN to improve the streetscape on Brunswick St at the Barker St intersection in New Farm, funded partially by residents, has been pitched by council in a series of information sessions to locals. The New Farm Suburban Centre Improvement Plan will cost $3.5 million and, if adopted, residents will fund 30% or about $1 [...]

Squabble over historic fence more about future plans

NEIGHBOURS squabbling over fences is nothing new. It has gone on almost since time began. Hours and hours of reality television and current affairs shows have been devoted to such battles. Generally such tiffs would barely raise an eyebrow but not when it involves the fence at one of Brisbane’s oldest homes. The unofficial combatants [...]

Residents want council support with parking concerns

A proposal to expand Sargent Street private hospital New Farm Clinic is close to Brisbane City Council approval, despite numerous objections from residents in the last six months. The clinic, owned by Ramsay Health Group, proposed to build an additional floor to one of two existing buildings at the complex over 18 months, increasing inpatient [...]

Gloria has landed

Gloria is Teneriffe’s newest tourist attraction and even while she was being installed by the Council workers, under the supervision of artist Mark Andrews, she was being snapped by most who walked by. The installation of Gloria, pictured above with Isaiah & Shruti Hutchison, and named in honour after the late Gloria Grant, a local [...]

Mayor determined to make controversial wharf plan ‘fly’

THERE is going to be a boutique hotel under the Story Bridge at the Howard Smith Wharves come Hell or high water – with the high water mark being a controversial point. The Brisbane Lord Mayor has announced that, despite strong opposition and not knowing whether there would be interest in rekindling the project, the [...]

Festival to flow onto river next year

NEXT year’s Teneriffe Festival is to focus more on the Brisbane River as an attraction as the event grows in size and popularity, according to festival management committee chairman Richard Bodley. Mr Bodley said having the river flowing by the festival site was an extra attraction for people and the committee planned to utilise that [...]

Frail living in fear as abusive neighbour threatens violence

THINGS that go more than bump in the night have the elderly residents of Henderson Lodge, in Kent Street, New Farm, living in fear. It is not only the bumps. It is shouting, the loud music, drunken rowdiness and hurling of abuse – all from one person in particular – who residents are reluctant  to [...]

GET A HEAD START. ACHIEVE YOUR NEW FINANCIAL YEAR RESOLUTIONS WITH GROW.

The start of the New Financial Year brings with it the perfect conditions to invest in property due to improved market conditions, falling interest rates, and competitive vendor conditions offering great incentives on properties within the city and city-fringe growth areas right now. Recent statistics from the REIQ show evidence of tightening vacancy rates and [...]