The Southern Downs Regional Council will hold a ‘Love Leyburn’ community workshop at the QCWA Hall on MacIntyre Street next Thursday 7 March from 4pm to 7pm.
The workshop is part of the council’s development of an ‘Urban Design Framework’ for Leyburn. The project will look at how design, land use, and community activities come together to shape Leyburn as a town. The project will outline future improvements and initiatives to be undertaken by the council and others.
The event next Thursday will be a ‘community drop-in session’ to capture residents’ ideas, issues, and aspirations for Leyburn.
For more details contact the council’s Planning Department on 1300 697 372 or via email to mail@sdrc.qld.gov.au
• History on the market
Leyburn’s historic Royal Hotel is on the market for $1,250,000.
The Royal Hotel is the oldest continually licensed premises in Queensland. The building as it stands today incorporates the original premises, built 150 years ago.
James Murray was the first licensee, owner and builder of the Royal, and he constructed this building in 1863. Unfortunately he only held the licence for six months and died from the effects of drinking to excess.
Leyburn was originally a gold mining town and one of the first settlements on the Darling Downs. After the gold mines closed the area reverted to a rural farming community.
Marketing agents CRE Brokers say the Royal Hotel “would have to be one of the finest examples of time and money being well spent to modernise the premises but still maintaining a link with the past”.
The Royal features a large undercover beer garden and six cabins.
