Work on track as projects progress

Noosa Council’s $35.6 million capital works programme is on track, with more than half of the year’s projects either under way or complete.

Infrastructure and Planning Director Martin Drydale said stage 2 of Cooroy-Noosa Road improvements, between Fairway Drive and Golf Course Drive, were on schedule.

The work will deliver safer cycle lanes and pedestrian pathways, new asphalt overlay, new guard rails and new culverts.

A Ben Lexcen Drive school crossing improvement project is also nearing completion, and Council’s bus stop upgrade program is on track.

Mr Drydale said Council was 64.9% of the way through the year’s works budget, with actual and committed expenditure totalling $23.1 million.

“Our aim is to have the majority of projects well under way with construction nearing completion in the third quarter of the financial year to ensure resources are ready for the next year’s works schedule,” Mr Drydale said.

“At the end of 2015 there were 121 projects in Council’s capital works programme with a value of $35.6 million.”

Mr Drydale said the Dr Pages Road upgrade at Cootharaba was progressing well, as was the Munna Point bridge rehabilitation work.

Pomona’s Rifle Street flood mitigation works, a whole-of-shire gravel re-sheeting program, Main Beach sand pump pipe replacement, Cooroy Belli Creek Road timber bridge deck resurfacing and Castaways Beach Access 42 renewal are among the projects Council has recently completed.

12 February 2016