No Helicopters Here GoFundMe fundraiser

C4 has withdrawn from the court case they initiated, with the support of the Mission Beach Community, against the council’s 2021 approval of a helicopter aerodrome at 2224 Tully Mission Beach Road. There will be no court hearing. A voluntary mediation session with the developer resulted in a compromise agreement comprising a set of conditions that was then ratified by the court. 

​Details of the conditions negotiated by C4 during this mediation can be found   here.

Mission Beach community members who campaigned against the development are grappling with what this outcome will mean for their future at Mission Beach.

 Instead of the developer being stopped from building a helicopter aerodrome in the wrong place, the developer has been granted the movement of 120 helicopters every day.  Instead of town planning principles and legislation protecting residents and their surroundings, there will be never-ending impacts on the local cassowaries and community.
 
The court approval of the new agreed conditions replaces the original approval.  Should these conditions be breached, there is no way of enforcing them without going to court.  
 
We have yet to learn what was negotiated for C4 during the mediation.
 
Before anyone decided to go to court, Mission Beach Cassowaries obtained preliminary legal advice that outlined just how inadequate is the local planning scheme to protect the village characteristics and natural environment so highly valued by the present community. Development by Material Change of Use (MCU) – ie by overriding what we used to call “zoning” – is now the path to anti-community development under a complicit local council.
 
Mission Beach Cassowaries set up the  Go Fund Me fundraiser  to help the appeal with an expectation it would proceed to a court hearing.   We thank you for your generous support.   The No Helicopters Here supporters did not receive any correspondence from C4 during the proceedings. Nor were they consulted about the possibility of negotiations with the developer; nor about what, if any, conditions would be acceptable during such negotiations.  Supporters of NO HELICOPTERS HERE meant just that – NO HELICOPTERS HERE. 
 
   As the appeal did not proceed to a hearing we have received some requests for donations to be refunded. The refunds have incurred a GoFundMe fee of 2.2%.   

Please let us know if you would like to:

• Receive a refund (less GoFundMe fee ) 
• Send your donation to C4, or
• Donate to Mission Beach Cassowaries to engage professional advice on how to strengthen the Cassowary Coast Regional Council Planning Scheme and be kept informed of other ways you can have meaningful input to better planning outcomes.  

MBC will now focus our efforts on how the community can have meaningful input into the CCRC Planning Scheme currently under review.
 
If you would like to to receive updates and ways you can help please let us know by emailing us at  [email protected]

LG
​Mission Beach Cassowaries