The council has voted and the decisions have been made. This post shows the final results, and what the new rules are.

 The council meeting where the decision will be made on the future of off-leash dog walking at Point Cartwright will be held at 9:30 am, 26th October 2011.

Members of the public are free to council sessions, including this one.

 The council submission period has closed, and our campaign to get people to put in their submissions has been a great success, with hundreds of submissions being given to council in support of keeping the existing off-leash laws.   But more can still be done.  Read on to find out what you can do.

 This post contains the press release provided to Sunshine Coast Media for the weekend of 3rd/4th September.

 An article in the Sunshine Coast Daily about the current proposal to reduce the off-leash dog exercise area by 70% in Point Cartwright, and to ban off-leash walking at any time in La Balsa park.

www.sunshinecoastdaily.com.au/story/2011/09/04/thompsons-dogged-push-for-leash-ruling/

 This post contains the proposed submission to council by Pups in Paradise.  Please feel free to add comment either throught the comments feature or through the contact form on the 'About Us' page.

This Park is used by hundreds of dog walkers from all over the Shire, many on a daily basis. It works brilliantly – it is as though the whole park has been sprayed with happy gas and is the perfect snapshot of the happy Australian family out with their children and dogs HAVING FUN!!

 

 

Cr Chris Thomson is behind the push to severely reduce and restrict the walking of dogs in the Pt Cartwright area.  This post takes a look at the voters and voting in the Division 4 area in the 2008 elections to see how much support Cr Thomson has.

Not many people know, but the draft changes for many Sunshine Coast council laws are approaching the end of their 'proposed' status, and will to become law.  The period allowable for submissions ends on the 11th September, and realistically, submissions need to be put in by the 9th September.

This post contains the details and information for the changes with regards to Dogs in the La Balsa/Pt Cartwright reserve area.  Read on to see what is proposed to be changed, and how you can put your submission to council in response.

The Sunshine Coast council is running a series of community consultation meetings.   One was held today in the Kawana Library, with Councillor Chris Thompson and several council staff in attendance.  The consultation meetings are in response to the law changes brought in under the guise of consolidation of laws between the former Noosa, Caloundra and Maroochy councils.

Cr Thompson looked a little surprised to find many passionate people attending the consultation meeting, who all were very concerned about the proposed law changes which would reduce the amount of area to exercise a dog off leash to completely exclude La Balsa park and most of Point Cartwright reserve.

There was one lone dissenter who wanted greater control over dogs on the basis that they are a danger to children.

Cr Thompson said that he had come up with the draft changes to restrict exercising dogs off-leash to the very end of the breakwater and surrounding beach and forest area.   While he admitted he was the one proposing...

We now have a Parliamentary Petition to go to state parliament in our attempt to change the QLD state law to allow leashed companion dogs into alfresco cafes at the cafe owners discretion. Unfortunately it has to be a Parliamentary petition sponsored by an MP - Steve Dickson from Buderim has sponsored it for us and we are good to go.

http://www.parliament.qld.gov.au/view/EPetitions_QLD/CurrentEPetition.aspx?PetNum=1483&lIndex=-1

If you want a paper petition please email pupsinparadise@gmail.com and I will send it to you. We will need thousands of signatures and we need them by 18th Oct . Thank you for your support
 

Sunshine Coast Daily Article, published Saturday 17th April 2010

http://www.sunshinecoastdaily.com.au/story/2010/04/17/dog-ban-puts-sunrise-work-in-the-dark/

Article published in the Sunshine Coast Daily, 28th February 2010

http://www.sunshinecoastdaily.com.au/story/2010/02/28/dogs-gone-not-yet/