January 2025

We received a letter from the Tribunal with its decision. It said, “The Development Tribunal, in accordance with section 252 PA, decides that the Tribunal has no jurisdiction to hear or decide the appeal.” Apparently under “Section 229 and Schedule 1 section 1(1) and Table 1 item 6 PA do allow the decision to give an EN to be appealed to the Planning and Environment Court or the Tribunal, but Schedule 1 section 1(2)(h) limits the the types of EN decisions that can be appealed to the Tribunal.”

With the Tribunal shutting down our appeal, our only option was to appeal to the Planning and Environment Court. This would require substantial money to hire a barrister to represent us and a considerable amount of time, as this could take a couple of years to come to a decision, and there was a risk that we would not win. So the decision was made not to pursue an appeal through the Planning & Environment Court. We now had to follow through on the actions Sunshine Coast Council required on the Enforcement Notice (EN).

Unhappy with the decision, we contacted the media to share our story.

February 2025

To take our story to a wider audience, we created the Tiny Community Living website and started a new petition to Sunshine Coast Council and the Queensland State Government. To date we have raised over 1000 signatures. In time we deliver the signed petitions to Sunshine Coast Council and the Queensland State Government.

To reach a wider audience to share our story and collect signatures for our petition, we started attending local markets. We attended Witta Markets, Eumundi Markets, Yandina Country Markets, Mapleton Country Markets, Kenliworth Markets, and the Terella Twilight Markets each week.