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Preece | MAX WATTERSON+ASSOCIATES

24" September, 2013
Ref: 06-2184
Your Ref: JLO13:JL:MCU12/0184
The Chief Executive Officer
Sunshine Coast Regional Council
Locked Bag 72
SUNSHINE COAST MAIL CENTRE Q 4560

Attention: Jack Lewis
Dear Sir,

Re: Development Application for Material Change of Use (MCU12/0184)
(Animal Husbandry Type 2) — Poultry Farm
Environmentally Relevant Activity (ERA12/0087)
Lot 21 on SP226606 — 136 Top Forestry Road, Ridgewood
Applicant: W Donald Milligan Pty Ltd.

| refer to the above-mentioned matter and the additional issues raised by late
submissions lodged at Council; in particular:

Night Time Operations

The operation of the poultry farm is generally carried out during the daylight hours;
with some catching of the birds carried out at night time. Please note that it is not
mandatory that the catching is carried out at night.

When night time operations are undertaken it is generally carried out in low light so
as not to distress or alarm the birds.

When the birds are being caught and transported they are placed in cages while in
the sheds and the cages delivered to the truck parked at the door of the shed. A
single down-facing light is positioned at the door of the shed when the birds are being
loaded into trucks. A photo of the lighting of an existing shed in operation at a
Redlands Bay poultry farm is shown below.

 

PRINCIPAL 12 Maple Street (PO Box 639) Cooroy Q 4563 ABN 59 847 644 252
Max L. Watterson PH 07 5442 6121
Cadastral Surveyor (QId) FAX 07 5442 5125

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