By MEGAN OGLE
GREENS Party council hopeful Aaron White is seeing red over the destruction of a wildlife corridor on Noosa’s border.
The controversial Peregian Springs site – primarily on Sunshine Coast Council land – was once home to black cockatoos, sugar gliders and Grand Scribbly Gum but is now being cleared to make room for 36 housing lots, as well as further residential or commercial development.
Mr White joined concerned residents at the site for a vigil on Wednesday 6 January to grieve the loss of the wildlife corridor and to express concern at the lack of community involvement in the planning of what was thought to be conservation land.
Mr White said it was issues such as this that made him grateful Noosa Council had de-amalgamated from the Sunshine Coast Council.
“It’s a clear indication of really why we de-amalgamated, because there was only one submission in against this and I think that’s an absolute failure of the (Sunshine Coast) Council processes here that the community wasn’t more aware,” Mr White said.
“If the same sort of thing was going to happen in Noosa, the community would have been aware; there would have been major campaigns by community groups.”
Mr White made history when he announced he would run as a Greens candidate for the Noosa Council elections to be held in March this year – the first from that party to do so.
