In the 2016-17 financial year, Brisbane residents made over 10 000 complaints about noise to the council. This number has increased from the previous 2015-16 year. This means Brisbane City Council is receiving an average of 30 noise complaints every day. With these many noise complaints every day in one council area, it's clear there is a problem with the way noise complaints are currently being managed. It's not new for people to complain about noisy neighbours, but with com

The HQ apartments by JadeCorp - installed with free water features on external wall (when it rains) On 12 May this year the Queensland Civil and Administrative Tribunal backed the decision of the Queensland Building and Construction Commission siding with developers Jadecorp in relation to their development of the HQ apartments in Chermside. Essentially, this has confirmed the approach of 'Buyer Beware' in Queensland. In this case, the developer, their builder and suppliers/