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\"The<\/a>
The Stone Store at Boondooma Homestead was built to store and dispense supplies to Station workers; it’s one of several historic buildings on the site<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Kathy<\/a>
SBRC Cr Kathy Duff<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

August 22, 2013<\/strong><\/p>\n

Boondooma Homestead will become home to the South Burnett’s western-most caravan park.<\/p>\n

Yesterday at its monthly meeting, the South Burnett Regional Council agreed to waive a planning application fee for a Material Change of Use to a Caravan Park.<\/p>\n

The decision will allow the Boondooma Homestead Management Advisory Committee to proceed with plans to establish 20 powered and unpowered caravan sites in the grounds.<\/p>\n

The caravan park sites will complement existing bush camping sites.<\/p>\n

Cr Kathy Duff, a member of the Advisory Committee, said she was keen to support the application.<\/p>\n

“The association has been trying for years to get a caravan park. Council have worked closely with the committee to get this application on the table,” Cr Duff said.<\/p>\n

“I cannot speak highly enough about this project.”<\/p>\n

The Association\u2019s vision statement is to preserve the history of Boondooma Homestead and Boondooma Station, which was settled in 1842 by three young Scotsmen.<\/p>\n

The Station was originally bounded by the hill east of Proston, Brovinia Creek to the north, Darr Creek to the south, and the Great Dividing Range to the west – a total of nearly 2,500 square kilometres.<\/p>\n

The homestead is one of the few remaining Queensland examples of an elegant wooden home built in 1854-55.<\/p>\n

Visitors can walk through several buildings constructed in the 1850s and spend time in the gardens, enjoying trees and vines which also date from the 1850s.<\/p>\n

The Association hope the new caravan park will allow more people to experience the Homestead and its unique offerings year-round, and it hopes to open the new facility in 2014.<\/p>\n

Boondooma Homestead Management Advisory Committee chairman Cr Keith Campbell told councillors that three cabins have also recently arrived on the site.<\/p>\n

While they’ll require additional work to be usable, once this is completed they’ll be added to the facilities too.<\/p>\n

The Association holds two major events each year – the Spirit of the Bush Balladeers and Heritage Muster, which is held annually around Anzac Day; and the Scots in the Bush Festival, which was held last weekend.<\/p>\n

Cr Kathy Duff said that this year Scots in the Bush had attracted about 200 caravans – double the number it drew last year.<\/p>\n

“It was a sensational weekend and full credit to the Association for putting it on. This is a huge injection into South Burnett\u2019s economy.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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