2016-04-19 Planning & Environment Committee Agenda

PLANNING & ENVIRONMENT COMMITTEE MEETING AGENDA                                    19 APRIL 2016


RECOMMENDATION
That Council note the report by the Coordinator Planning to the Planning & Environment
Committee Meeting dated 19 April 2016 and refuse Application No. MCU15/0095 & REC15/0022
for a Development Permit for a Material Change of Use of Premises - Retail Business Type 2
Shop & Type 5 Vehicle Uses and Reconfiguring a Lot – 1 Lot into 2 Lots, situated at 115
Eumundi Noosa Rd, Noosaville for the following reasons:
1.     The service station poses unacceptable risks to human health, safety and wellbeing at
       adjacent existing uses, in particular to children using directly adjacent school facilities.
2.     The development provides insufficient buffers to adjacent extremely sensitive school uses.
3.     The development conflicts with The Noosa Plan’s Noosaville Locality Code and Business
       Uses Code as it is incompatible with, and has the potential to adversely impact on, the
       adjacent school users.
4.     The service station is unable to contain emissions within the site, as sought by The Noosa
       Plan for sites adjoining community uses.
5.     A precautionary approach should be applied pursuant to the Sustainable Planning Act
       2009, given the development’s significant health and safety risks for adjoin the adjoining
       sensitive uses.



REPORT
1.     PROPOSAL
The application seeks approval for a Material Change of Use of premises for a service station
and retail shop and Reconfiguring a Lot to subdivide the existing lot into 2 lots and an access
easement. The service station and shop comprises:
   a 254m2 service station building
   a refuelling canopy over 3 refuelling bowsers with 6 filling positions
   180,000L of underground fuel storage tanks
   10 car parks and 2 motorcycle spaces
   1 Loading service bay and screened bin enclosure
The applicant does not nominate the area of the service station’s retail shop component but it is
approximately 100m2. The business is proposed to operate 24hrs a day, 7 days a week. The
application includes a preliminary landscaping plan indicating landscape areas to most of the
site’s Walter Hay Drive and Eumundi Rd frontages. An extract of the proposed site plan and an
architectural perspective are shown in Figures 1 and 2 below.




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