Jen Drysdale submission 17 Dec 15

The Noosa Plan and associated planning scheme is due for review and does not reflect the current
circumstances in neighbourhood of the proposed Development. The planning scheme may have
envisaged Industrial development in the area at one time however Community Use, Openspace and
Residential development that has been approved in the area since 2004 when the Noosa Plan was
prepared makes it an incompatible use of the land
due to community amenity, health and safety

concerns.

The subject Property is currently located in an
Industry Zone. It contains no infrastructure of an
industrial nature and is not adjoined by other
Industry Zoned property. It (Fig. 1) is bounded on two
sides by Eumundi-Noosa Road and Walter Hay Drive.

 

The land which immediately adjoins the Property is

zoned Community Uses, occupied by the School to the east and an electrical substation to the north.
Immediately adjoining the school as you progress along Walter Hay Drive is an oval used for sporting
and recreational purposes (zoned Open Space Recreational) and a retirement village (zoned Residential
Use).

The Noosa Plan is now almost twelve years old and well past the recognised use-by-date for such an
instrument. A reasonable assessment of the site as it currently stands would indicate that it is
incorrectly zoned based on the way the site, and the surrounding neighbourhood, has evolved over the
years.

As a matter of legacy rather than intent the remainder of the former Noosa Shire Council Depot, being
the subject Lot 30 on SP 170751 (the Property), continued to be zoned “Industry”. The Church
purchased the Property from Noosa Shire Council on 20 December 2007. The Property shares a common
boundary with the School Health and Physical Education Centre and Childrens’ Swimming Pool,

It is a matter of public record® that in 2007 the Church was concerned about the possible development

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of the site. The School stated at the time that a prospective developer “...could establish a service

station on the site.. We are somewhat alarmed by the prospect of fuel storage tanks and fuel vapours

being so close”.°

There is further contention’ that there was a verbal agreement at the time of the purchase in 2007

between the Church and Noosa Shire Council that the Property “...would not be made available to other

wil

commercial enterprises” and that the Property would provide a buffer zone between the School

Community Services Zone and the nearby Industry Zone. The alleged verbal agreement struck between

the Noosa Shire Council and the Church “...never envisaged that [the] land would be made available for

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a service station”. “ The veracity of this agreement is consistent with the demonstrated cooperation

® https://www.gslc.qid.edu.au/news.aspx?article=99

* ibid

*° Counsellor Frank Pardon quoted in Gardner P, Noosa News, 9 December 2015
* ibid

* ibid

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