my VI L LAGE news INNER NORTH • FEBRUARY ’21 RALLY TOGETHER Celebrate the Australian Open AT NORTHSHORE Page 23 THE PUB WITH NO CREEK BREAKFAST CREEK WIPED OFF THE MAP Page 5 ASCOT | HAMILTON | HENDRA | WOOLOOWIN | CLAYFIELD | KALINGA | NORTHSHORE | ALBION Pictured: Melissa Xu Oliver Van Tonder. Photo by Shona Bryan. LIKE NOWHERE ELSE IN BRISBANE QUEENSLAND’S WIDE VARIETY 70 RACEDAYS EXCLUSIVE MEMBER PREMIER OF HOSPITALITY A YEAR ACCESS, PROMOTIONS RACING CLUB OPTIONS & DISCOUNTS REMARKABLECreate EXPERIENCES More Than RACING CORPORATE EVENTS | SCHOOL FORMALS | MEETINGS & CONFERENCING | SPECIAL EVENTS Exclusive access to discounts & MEMBERSHIP Members areas Plus Get all of the benefits of a BRC Membership 100+ from NOW until July 2022. days of live racing FROM $330 JOIN TODAY BRC.COM.AU/MEMBERSHIP EAGLE FARM RACECOURSE BRC.COM.AU DOOMBEN RACECOURSE 230 Lancaster Rd, Ascot QLD 4007 75 Hampden St, Ascot QLD 4007 news V comment She said she and her colleagues had run a petition calling on Major charity excited the government to take action to mitigate noise and respond to community suggestions that to be part of high street could assist in that regard but had received no substantive response. “resurgence” It would seem that the strategy MIKE O’CONNOR By Ellen-Maree Elliot [email protected] of the government and its agencies, Airservices Australia and the Civil Aviation Safety Authority, is to do Aircraft noise and the new flight A boutique style op shop will nothing in the hope that eventually paths introduced following the open at the top of Racecourse opening of Brisbane Airport’s second people will tire of complaining and Rd in mid-March as the charity runway are looming as a hot local the issue will fade away. behind it predicts a revitalisation topic in the next federal election. Given the depth of feeling among of the landmark high street. Labor MP for Griffith Terri Butler residents on both sides of the river, RSPCA commercial enterprises general manager George Costi said The RSPCA Op Shop will open mid-March has raised the issue in federal this would seem unlikely. The Liberal while the precinct had experienced parliament, saying that ultimately it is member for Brisbane Trevor Evans some decline, it was “excellent “Our brand is pretty powerful.” the responsibility of the government has written to the agencies voicing timing” to join the street. As well as being part of one of and not unelected agencies to call the concerns of his constituents but, like Ms Butler, has effectively “We believe there’s going to be a Brisbane’s most well-known shopping the shots. resurgence in businesses there. It’s strips, Mr Costi said the charity chose “It is up to them to make sure that been stonewalled by the agencies while the Minister for Transport an attractive precinct, it’s nice to go Ascot because the area had many aircraft noise is managed well while for a coffee and wander the shops, I pet owners and RSPCA supporters. and Deputy Prime Minister Michael also making sure that Australia’s think we timed it quite well,” he said. He said the shop, at the corner McCormack has dodged the issue. domestic and international travel and He added that RSPCA Op of Lancaster Rd and Racecourse The assurances given by Brisbane freight needs are served,” she said. Shops had a proven record in Rd, would be a small, boutique “When the second runway Airport Corporation that there attracting new people to retail style store, offering high quality commenced operations in July an would be minimal impact on destinations, a result he hoped second-hand clothing, knick additional cohort of my constituents, lifestyles once the runway opened to recreate at Racecourse Rd. knacks and some furniture, as residents under the new flight path, have proved to be patently false. “When we moved into Toowoomba well as RSPCA merchandise and began raising concerns about noise The second runway was not and Bundall (at the Gold Coast), pet food and accessories. in addition to those who were already operational during the 2019 election. we increased visitation to those If there is enough demand, the shop under the existing flight path.” This time it will be different. sites by 30 per cent,” he said. may also offer cat adoptions in future. We are a Clayfield business hosting cooking and table setting classes for young people; along with one-off creative workshops for adults and children. www.atjanestable.com ♦ [email protected] ♦ +61 410 261 013 @janestable february ’21 | MY VI L LAGE NEWS 3 V news 4 MY VI L LAGE NEWS | february ’21 news V Curious case of missing landmark creek By Ellen-Maree Elliot Clearly in the past it’s been an annoyance for people to have Breakfast Creek shown Breakfast Creek has disappeared on Google Maps going all the – leaving Brisbane’s most famous way up to the ranges, but the pub and a luxury lifestyle precinct solution isn’t to rename it without their namesake. the Enoggera Creek all the Global tech giant Google has way down and adjacent to the mislabelled the stretch of water that Breakfast Creek Hotel. winds its way from the D'Aguilar Range to the Brisbane River on Google Maps, so that the Breakfast Creek Hotel and Breakfast Creek Lifestyle more than one name, like Skyring Precinct currently straddle the Tce, which becomes Vernon Enoggera Creek, not Breakfast Creek. Tce and then Macquarie St in Teneriffe, then Google could treat The Enoggera Creek and Breakfast the waterway in the same way. Creek are the same waterway and, “It can’t be all that hard if they can while confusion about where the change the road names,” he said. creek’s name officially changes The question remains – where along has long reigned in Brisbane, it Shannon and Clare Kellam support Cr David McLachlan’s campaign to make sure the Breakfast Creek the creek should the name change? is undebatable that by the time is labelled correctly on Google Maps. Picture by Shona Bryan. According to the Queensland it reaches the Brisbane River it Government, research in 1992 should be called Breakfast Creek. mislabelled as the Brisbane River. an annoyance for people to confirmed the name changed Correctly labelling the The mistake has rankled Hamilton have Breakfast Creek shown on where the North Coast Railway Line creek has been a long-running Ward Councillor David McLachlan, who Google Maps going all the way up crossed the creek, south of Albion issue for Google Maps. has contacted Google Maps to get the to the ranges, but the solution Station and west of Burrows St The mapping service had it name right, and he has the support of isn’t to rename it the Enoggera and Hudson Rd, despite arguments wrong in 2017, too, just the other the MICA Café owners Shannon and Creek all the way down and that the name should change at way round – dubbing the waterway Clare Kellam, who are based in the adjacent to the Breakfast Creek other points, like where the creek Breakfast Creek for its entire Breakfast Creek Lifestyle Precinct. Hotel,” Cr McLachlan said. intersects with Ithaca Creek, at Kelvin length, while Ithaca Creek was “Clearly in the past it’s been He said if a road could have Grove Rd, or at Bowen Bridge Rd. COMET AUTOMOTIVE Your Dealership Alternative EST. 1993 Exceptional luxury car service for European vehicles from the best technicians using the latest technology. Personalised service from an experienced team who have worked exclusively with European vehicles for almost 3 decades. Built by word of mouth and praised from more than 4000 faithful customers. Book your service today. 3262 2422 36 Collingwood St, Albion | cometautomotive.com.au february ’21 | MY VI L LAGE NEWS 5 V news Green bridge College resubmits development application works start after lapse Brisbane City Council says every By Ellen-Maree Elliot effort will be made to minimise disruption around Newstead Park when civil engineering works begin on Clayfield College has resubmitted the Breakfast Creek Green Bridge and a development application for Lores Bonney Riverwalk extension. school upgrades after changes in Cr David McLachlan said “I’m its management team meant the looking forward to the start of school was not aware the previously construction of an important link granted approval had expired. from the fantastic Lores Bonney The application is for a Riverwalk to Newstead.” multi-purpose building with Geotechnical studies started early six classrooms, an office and February, and will run from 7am-5pm administration building with meeting Monday-Friday. rooms, office space and staff The works include drilling test room and associated upgrades to Proposed classroom building and central walkway boreholes in the park to determine existing staircases and walkways. ground conditions for the bridge It was approved via a negotiated “An extension to that original Usually there are a range of landing, foundations and connecting decision notice on April 29, 2016. approval was not requested prior charges associated with submitting pathways. Sampling of material in the In a letter to Brisbane City to the application lapsing due and assessing development park will determine the geotechnical Council, Principal Andrew Cousins to changes in the management applications with religious, conditions likely to be expected wrote that the approval lapsed team at the school, meaning we charitable and non-profits entitled during construction. in April 2020 and the school was were not aware that the approval to a 50 per cent discount. Construction vehicle movements relodging the application “seeking had lapsed until after it had However, the school is seeking with reversing alarms, building- that it be reapproved with the same occurred,” Mr Cousins wrote.