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Kiama council just gave the green light for two large parcels of land (side by side) with 2 titles to be developed as one. The council has also indicated they would like to see these lots subdivided into 28+ building blocks.

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Home tipped to smash records – Kiama Real Estate

Courtesy of the Illawarra Mercury;

 

“This waterfront mansion with its own putting green is expected to shatter Kiama’s residential price record after it goes on the market today.

The land alone in Pheasant Point Dr is worth $4million – more than double the price paid for the top-selling house ($1.21million) in the area in the past year.

‘‘Records are calculated annually and I’ve got no doubt this will beat all previous years because it is one of the most outstanding houses I’ve seen in terms of location, design and quality finish,’’ Trever Molenaar from McGrath Real Estate said.

As well as the manicured putting green, the four-bedroom, five-bathroom house has a lift, a butler’s kitchen off the main kitchen, and a turbo gas and electric pool heater to warm the water to 30degrees in minutes.

There are remote controlled blinds, televisions that retract into the ceiling and floor and French kitchen appliances.

Designed by Shoalhaven architects Myson and Berkery, the house makes the most of its headland position overlooking Bombo Beach with every room featuring either an ocean or rural view.

The master bedroom with his and hers ensuites has uninterrupted sea views through wall-to-ceiling glass panels.

The owners, who Mr Molenaar described as ‘‘very private people’’ share their time between Kiama and Port Douglas.

They built the home on two lots each worth $2million a year ago and have not disclosed their reason for selling.

Mr Molenaar said fixing a price guide was almost impossible at this early stage.

‘‘There is nothing really in this region to compare it with so we will leave the market to assess the value,’’ he said.

He said the residential record for the past year went to 39 Tingiri Cr, which sold for $1.21million.

This property was expected to well exceed that, he said.

‘‘It’s in the elite end of the market which means it won’t go overnight but we know there are a number of people who have money and who are watching and waiting for the right home.

‘‘I can’t see it going to a local buyer … we plan to contact overseas clients in Japan and an expat in Switzerland who may be interested in a property of this type,’’ he said.

Inspection is by appointment.”

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About Kiama

Kiama is a township 120 kilometres south of Sydney in the Illawarra, New South Wales, Australia in the Municipality of Kiama. At the 2006 census, Kiama had a population of 12,286 people. One of the main tourist attractions is the Kiama Blowhole. The seaside town features several popular surfing beaches, caravan parks and numerous alfresco cafes and restaurants. It is the first country town south of Sydney, and attracts a large number of day trippers.

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NBN taken up quickly in Kiama

Courtesy of the Illawarra Mercury;

 

“Kiama has recorded one of the fastest National Broadband Network take-up rates in the country since commercial services launched late last year.

Of the 2500 Kiama Downs and Minnamurra homes and businesses with access to the network, more than 600 have made the switch, according to government-owned builder NBN Co.

‘‘When we benchmark the take-up rate here compared to what telcos have seen in other parts of the world, it normally takes two or three years to get to 25 per cent take-up that we’ve got in Kiama after a relatively short time,’’ chief executive officer Mike Quigley said.

A similar figure had been achieved at the Willunga trial site in South Australia, he said.

Mr Quigley and a team of NBN Co officials visited the region yesterday on a fact-finding mission and to meet Kiama Mayor Sandra McCarthy.

He linked the high number of early users at the Kiama first release site to the council’s

efforts to work with the community and develop applications for the NBN.

Kiama Downs and Minnamurra residents were among the first in mainland Australia to join the fibre network, which will pass another 5200 sites in Kiama and Jamberoo by the end of the year.

Kiama council recently became the first local government on the mainland to connect, while data is also flowing across the network to a new digital hub at the town’s library.

Mr Quigley said other early release sites could learn from Kiama’s initiatives.

NBN Co announced this week an extra 16,000 homes in Wollongong, Dapto and a new release site at Corrimal would have access to the network by 2014.

However, Mr Quigley was unable to provide information about when the network would reach parts of the region that have so far missed out, including Gerringong and Gerroa.

‘‘We are being lobbied, as you would expect, very strongly from councils all around the country, so we’ll move just as fast as we can and we are keen to get on obviously and do Gerroa and Gerringong just as soon as possible,’’ he said.

He also recognised Shellharbour City Council was keen to join the network, but could not say if it would be included in NBN Co’s three-year plan, to be announced by the end of March.”

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Negotiations stall on Kiama CBD deal

Courtesy of the Kiama Independent;

PLANNING for a redevelopment in Kiama’s CBD has stalled after negotiations between one of the landowners and the developer reached a crossroads.

Negotiations between Kiama Council, Weston and Co Publishing and developer Winston Langley Burlington started in November to build a new shopping complex at the corner of Shoalhaven and Akuna Sts on the council’s carpark and some of the Weston family’s land.

The proposal was to include a supermarket with a minimum floor space of 2000 square metres.

Kiama Council general manager Michael Forsyth said council was satisfied with its negotiations to date, however Weston and Co Marketing’s negotiations had stalled.

Mr Forsyth said the council met with the 149-year-old company last Friday to discuss the future of the site and Weston and Co wanted to seek expressions of interest from more developers.

“We will have to wait until the next council meeting to ask councillors if they think that’s appropriate,” he said.

“We’re always happy to talk to the developer but it depends on negotiations with the Westons.”

Mr Forysth was disappointed negotiations had not progressed further.

“The development has important public benefits in improving access to Terralong St from the public carpark and attracting another food retailer into town,” he said.

Winston Langley Burlington director Daniel Saab said the company was keen to proceed.

“We’re still actively interested and we’ll be seeking a meeting with the council to try and establish some common ground to remedy the situation,” he said.”The missing piece is the Westons coming on board – they’re the key to the whole redevelopment.”

Weston and Co Publishing director John Weston declined to comment.

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Faster service lined up for Kiama NBN users

Courtesy of the Illawarra Mercury;

Faster service lined up for Kiama NBN users

BY GREG ELLIS
29 Feb, 2012 04:00 AM
NBN users in Kiama now have access to new Telstra plans offering bigger data allowances for internet bundles.Telstra area general manager Michael Marom said the bundles, specifically for NBN users, were in line with those available for ADSL users.But Mr Marom said they were generally about twice as fast for those paying $80 or $90 a month with a 5GB or 200GB data allowance.He said NBN speeds on those new bundles on a single bill including home phone and broadband access with a Wi-Fi modem would be around 25 megabytes per second compared to around 12Mbps on ADSL.But customers paying $100 or more a month for a 200GB or 500GB data allowance would be able to access speeds of up to 100Mbps.ADSL users on similar bundle plans could generally access a maximum of about 12Mbps, Mr Marom said.

The new bundle plans are for all consumers in NBN enabled areas.

Mr Marom said that would include Wollongong and Corrimal when they came on line.

He said Telstra recognised many homes now had a range of new internet-enabled devices such as the T-Box, T-Hub, smartphones and tablets which provided access to movie downloads, on-demand content and sophisticated websites that performed best with greater speed and data allowances.

The bundles also include unlimited national voice calls between the home phone and up to four mobile services on the single bill, as well as unlimited local calls in most bundles.

Mr Marom said more than 180 people in Kiama helped Telstra trial NBN services in the past six months and provided valuable feedback.

Fixed broadband plans are also available on the NBN for customers who have a full service Telstra home phone plan.

 

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Kiama’s Heather’s aiming high

Courtesy of the Kiama Independent;

RIDING 650km on a bicycle from Sydney to Mt Kosciuszko might seem like a tough challenge, but Kiama’s Heather McAlpine says that’s nothing compared to fighting cancer.

For Mrs McAlpine, who started the Ride to the Top on Saturday, it is her first full-length endurance ride since she was diagnosed with breast cancer in October 2009.

She is raising money for the Breast Cancer Support Network.

“The network supports you in the cancer journey, particularly in the first month – when you’re diagnosed, your mind goes into a spasm and it’s a time of shock and intense decision-making,” she said.

She started riding 10 years ago when she and her husband, John, moved to Kiama.

“It was a weird time to start because Kiama has so many hills, but it helps you to get fit fast because you’ve got to do the hills – you’ve got no choice,” she said.

“I lead a busy life and I found that if I caught up with friends while riding, I could do two things in the same amount of time.”

After she joined the Kiama Bicycle Users Group (BUG), she took part in her first endurance ride from Sydney to Kosciuszko in 2003.

She hoped to ride last year, but the discovery and removal of a non-cancerous tumour on her ovary meant she could only ride from Bowral to Goulburn.

“It’s very meaningful being able to do the whole distance this year,” she said.

She said the chemotherapy had had lasting effects on her lungs.

“I’ve been told I’ve got 180 per cent higher fitness for my age, height and weight, but the dodgiest set of lungs,” she said.

“But my respiratory physician said cycling is the best thing for me.”

Mrs McAlpine will finish the Ride to the Top this Saturday and is hoping to raise $6500 – she has raised $3300 so far.

To donate, visit http://personalchallenge.gofundra ise.com.au/page/heathermcalpine

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Kiama jazz festival strikes a chord

Courtesy of the Illawarra Mercury;

 

Blue skies and a stellar line-up drew thousands of festival goers for Kiama’s three-day Jazz and Blues Festival at the weekend.

A crowd of 5000 filled parks, clubs and restaurants to hear boundary-blurring jazz and blues including burlesque, barrelhouse, swing, soul, fusion, funk and even a bit of Britney Spears.

Publicity co-ordinator Eevi Stein said the 25th anniversary festival was the most successful yet and attributed the huge crowd to the fantastic line-up and ‘‘the goddess of jazz and blues’’ for the beautiful weather.

One of the biggest musical drawcards was Christa Hughes and the Honky Tonk Shonks, who wowed the crowd at Kiama Leagues Club with a cheeky burlesque show.

The chanteuse sang traditional bluesy tunes but also managed to fit in songs by her former band, Machine Gun Fellatio, and her own version of Toxic by Britney Spears.

‘‘Christa was amazing – she is a little bit irreverent and pays out on everyone, she has a great sense of humour and just an amazing voice,’’ Ms Stein said.

She said other highlights included the Buddy Knox Blues Band and a gutsy performance by vocal powerhouse Fiona Boyes.

The festival finished yesterday with an all-day concert in Hindmarsh Park and sunset blues played by local outfit the Stringers at Kiama’s Grand Hotel.

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Kiama Downs residents happy with NBN

Courtesy of ABC;


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MARK COLVIN: Sometime in the next two weeks the company that runs the NBN will release the details of which houses will be connected to the National Broadband Network over the next three years.

By that time NBN Co expects to connect millions of subscribers to the high speed network.

As it stands, the fibre cables can only reach 18,000 or so homes around Australia at the moment. And only just over 2,700 households have actually opted in so far.

But as David Mark discovered, when he visited one of the test communities on the New South Wales south coast, those who have connected to the NBN are generally very happy with it.

(sound of plastic chips being scooped up)

SENIOR WOMAN: So we’re pretty good at this game; this is Rumican (phonetic).

DAVID MARK: It’s game time for the seniors at the North Kiama Neighbourhood centre in Kiama Downs, about 100 kilometres south of Sydney.

(sound of plastic chips)

SENIOR WOMAN 2: Right I’ve got three pods here.

DAVID MARK: It’s hard to imagine anywhere further removed from the cutting edge of the information super-highway.

And yet….

SHARON PARKER: so as you can see we’ve got four computers, and we’ve got a laptop. We’re also going to be able to do teleconferencing, which is going to be really exciting.

DAVID MARK: That’s Sharon Parker the Neighbourhood Centre’s community development manager.

She’s particularly excited because the centre is about to get hooked up to the NBN.

SHARON PARKER: Absolutely. Yes this week we’ll be all connected up and we’re going to start running courses.

DAVID MARK: What does that mean; what does having a high speed internet connection at a community centre mean?

SHARON PARKER: It’s fantastic. It’ll be terrific for the community to come down and actually get onto it and U3A’s going to find it really fantastic because they’ll be able to actually link up with the Northern Territory U3A.

DAVID MARK: That’s the University of the Third Age, a virtual university for over 55s.

SHARON PARKER: So, they’ll be doing photography at the moment. So they might want to link up with Armidale and have a look at see what their photography group’s doing.

DAVID MARK: People in Kiama Downs have been living with frustratingly slow ADSL1 internet connections for years.

But as one of the test sites for the NBN, they’ve been amongst the first to try out high-speed internet.

Sharon Parker’s had the NBN at her home for six months.

SHARON PARKER: Downloading, uploading, fast, brilliant. Sending emails, instant. Downloading really big documents, we get it straight away.

DAVID MARK: And you’ve got a couple of members of your family who are perhaps using the internet at the same time, is that the case?

SHARON PARKER: We sometimes have six laptops going at the same time, plus the TV.

DAVID MARK: And does that all work?

SHARON PARKER: Brilliant. We don’t have any dramas, none whatsoever.

DAVID MARK: How much do you pay for this?

SHARON PARKER: I actually pay $109 a bundle.

DAVID MARK: That’s $109 a month?

SHARON PARKER: Yep.

DAVID MARK: Is it worth it?

SHARON PARKER: Yes. Absolutely, I wouldn’t go back.

(sound of meeting and introductions)

DAVID MARK: Paul, g’day, I’m David how you going?

PAUL GOSNEY: I’m Paul, come on in.

DAVID MARK: Paul Gosney’s not going back.

PAUL GOSNEY: We’ve made a choice, a decisions to move to Kiama, just a sea change basically, or get out of Sydney – we’re raising two small children. And as a consequence of coming down here we found out we’d be eligible for the NBN. And that sort of tipped us over about coming down. It made me feel more comfortable bringing my business down here.

DAVID MARK: He’s a photographer and still does most of his shooting in Sydney, but the NBN’s uploading speed means he can do the rest of his work from home.

PAUL GOSNEY: What happens in the post production, so I travel back down from Sydney to Kiama, I’ve begun to now utilise offshore processing for some of my images. So I send them to companies outside of Australia typically and they’ll do some of my post-production, they’ll do deep etching and then send it back to me and I send it on to my clients.

DAVID MARK: Ok but this is obviously all happening on the net?

PAUL GOSNEY: This is all via the net. And so the fact is now I can deliver my jobs quickly.

DAVID MARK: So the long and the short of it is that the NBN has allowed you to live the lifestyle you want to live; is that correct?

PAUL GOSNEY: Yeah. And that’s the whole idea of coming down here is to have a better family and social life and you know it’s beginning to sort of bear fruit.

(sound of card being swiped)

WOMAN: There’s your card Catherine.

CATHERINE: Thank you.

MICHELLE HUDSON: My name is Michelle Hudson and I’m the manager of library services here at Kiama Council.

DAVID MARK: Over at the library they’re hoping that the fast speeds of the NBN will allow local residents to electronically access the regions historical documents, which when digitised become very large files.

MICHELLE HUDSON: So there’s things like old rates books, there’s old photos that people have. We’ve got some lovely film footage that people have taken on their holidays in the 1940s and at the moment that information is kept behind locked doors. And what we see with the NBN, in the potential that it will be able to realise for us, is to make all that content available.

DAVID MARK: In the centre of the library some people are using the NBN via the library’s WiFi.

MALE LIBRARY USER: It’s quicker. Yep.

FEMALE LIBRARY USER: It is very quick. It’s very good

DAVID MARK: So, the consensus is, the product is good; but not necessarily the service.

Paul Gosney recently moved and had to wait for weeks to get the NBN connected even when the fibre was already there at his house.

PAUL GOSNEY: There has been some frustrations that I’ve experienced with getting this thing operating. A lot of it I can put down to early days and so on, but now it’s a commercial product I would hope it would be working better than it actually is.

DAVID MARK: And that’s important when you consider the NBN plans to have the network available, or building availability, to more than 750,000 households by the end of the year.

Ninety-three per cent of Australia will be connected by 2021.

And even when the NBN is available, a quick doorknock around Kiama Downs shows not everyone is taking it up.

MALE RESIDENT 1: Not at the moment, no. But I believe a plan is to eventually get it connected.

MALE RESIDENT 2: No we don’t, no

DAVID MARK: Why not?

MALE RESIDENT 2: Because we’ve just moved down and we haven’t got round to getting everything sorted out yet.

DAVID MARK: Have you got the National Broadband network?

FEMALE RESIDENT 1: Yes we do.

DAVID MARK: How long have you had it?

FEMALE RESIDENT 1: Say a month

DAVID MARK: What do you make of it?

FEMALE RESIDENT 1: It’s been pretty good.

FEMALE RESIDENT 2: No I don’t

DAVID MARK: Why not?

RESIDENT FOUR: Because we’re on a contract with someone else, we’re waiting for that to expire and then we will.

DAVID MARK: Do you have the NBN?

FEMALE RESIDENT 3: Yes.

DAVID MARK: When did you get it?

FEMALE RESIDENT 3: Two months ago.

DAVID MARK: And what are you using it for?

FEMALE RESIDENT 3: Mainly emails and Skype.

DAVID MARK: And what do you think of it?

FEMALE RESIDENT 3: I think it’s wonderful because I was on dial up before.

DAVID MARK: So it’s a dramatic difference?

FEMALE RESIDENT 3: Oh dramatic difference, yes.

MARK COLVIN: A resident of Kiama Downs, south of Sydney, ending David Mark’s report.

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The beat goes on in Kiama

Courtesy of the Kiama Independent;

The beat goes on

07 Mar, 2012 01:00 AM
AT A time when other music festivals are struggling or dying, the organisers of the Kiama Jazz and Blues Festival are far from taking the event’s success lightly.In the lead-up to this year’s 25th birthday event, Festival co-ordinator Ross Eggleton paid tribute to the area’s businesses and audiences for supporting what has grown into a major tourism and economic drawcard for the region.Mr Eggleton said in planning this year’s event they didn’t stray too far from the winning formula of top acts but stressed keeping performances free was a priority.”We concentrated on making it free,” he said,. “The first free one we did was last year and that was highly successful so we wanted to repeat that success and make it even bigger.”

More than 20 venues will host more than 50 gigs, more than 35 bands, more than 100 performers over the festival weekend March 9, 10 and 11.

Most of the gigs take place in the Kiama CBD, at the Kiama Leagues Club and the Sebel Kiama, plus a variety of clubs, pubs, restaurants and cafes over the weekend from Gerroa to Jamberoo to Minnamurra.

Highlights include the All Day Jazz & Blues concert on the Sunday in Hindmarsh Park with six bands playing throughout the day, Eat to the Beat, Young Bands Come out to Play, Jazz Gospel Service, Jazz Breakfasts and roaming bands.

Mr Eggleton said formulating the performer’s list was a year-long process of listening, taking note and making a “wish list”.

“You look at who you want, who is available and who you can afford!” Mr Eggleton said.

While the spilt between jazz and blues acts is roughly 50-50, Mr Eggleton said the blues line-up was particularly strong this year.

In the event of wet weather, Mr Eggleton said the festival performances slated for Hindmarsh Park would move to the Kiama Leagues Club.

Festival programs are available from Kiama Tourism and cafes, restaurants, pubs and clubs throughout town or visit

www.kiamajazzfestival.com

Tu rn to pages 19, 20 and 21 for more festival news.

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