(Photo: Michel Rapelli)
June 18, 2012
A long-running dispute over access to the main terminal building at Wondai Airport seems close to resolution after the South Burnett Regional Council voted today to grant licences to three flying groups to share the facility in common.
Following calls in April for expressions of interest for licences to occupy the hangar and terminal space structures at both Wondai and Kingaroy airports, the Council this morning voted to:
- Grant a licence to Burnett Flyers Inc for an area of land at Wondai Airport where the club could erect a hanger and conduct their activities
- Grant a similar licence to the South East Queensland Gyroplane Club Inc, and
- Grant a licence to the Barambah Aero Club to occupy the existing terminal building at Wondai airport, with access allowed to all other authorised aerodrome users.
The Council also voted to grant licences to the owners of other existing building structures at Wondai Airport as soon as ownership could be established.
While expressing pleasure that the dispute now seemed close to a final solution, Mayor Wayne Kratzmann said he was also “very disappointed” that Council officers had needed to get involved in the matter in the first place.
He put this down to “the inability of some people involved in the dispute to get along”.
