PM Submission Object - Sallie Strang - MCU18/0084

Grounds of Objection

My grounds for objecting to the above proposed development and the facts relied on in identifying these
grounds include the following: -

aS The development application incorrectly identifies my adjoining land as being a residential use and
fails to acknowledge its equine uses.

My adjoining land is not a residential property as suggested in the development application. The
development application fails to acknowledge that my property is actively being used for rural uses. My
property divided into paddocks for my equine and farm management purposes. (look at Photographs 1 and 2)
| use virtually the whole of my property for the keeping, rearing, training, handling and grooming of horses.
This includes the access strip containing my driveway and my rural outbuilding that immediately abuts the site
of the proposed motel villas.

Ironically the planning report claims that the proposal will not compromise the ongoing agricultural value of
the development property but fails to consider how the proposal could compromise my ongoing rural use of
its adjoining land which is within 26 metres of the closest proposed cabin. One of the specific outcomes in the
Noosa planning scheme is to protect agricultural pursuits from incompatible uses. The development
application fails to protect my lawful rural use of the adjoining property.

2 The proposal is more akin to detached motel villas (70m2 each) in a themed rural setting than a farm
stay in eco cabins which are ancillary to the continued operation of a farm as being claimed in the
development application.

The development property is not currently used for commercial farming or as a farm as stated in the
development application.

The development property was purchased by the current landowner several months ago and is not currently
used for rural purposes which the development application is claiming as one of the central reasons that
visitors will be staying in the proposed cabins. The limited animals, (4 horses), currently on the site belong to
other people. They are just agisted. The development application states that, ‘the site will continue to be
used for rural production and the proposed accommodation will be an ancillary operation that will help to
underpin this primary use of the land’. The applicant is confirming that the property will continue to be
agisted for a few horses and that the 12 proposed bedrooms which could possibly accommodate up to 24
people is ancillary to the continued agistment of several horses.

It would appear that the introduction of animals as suggested in the development application is being
proposed to create the illusion of farm life with the proposed two (2) guinea fowl, two (2) pygmy goats, two
(2) dexter cattle, two (2) sheep and six (6) chickens. The development application suggests that the proposed
development will allow visitors to appreciate basic farming practices. It is suggested that the proposal is in
effect offering large motel styled villas with token animals in a rural themed setting. In reality it would be my
property that is providing the authentic rural experience.

The proposed claimed eco cabins with their basic design, glaring stark white-painted roofs and no eaves will

present more as detached motel villas or even dongas than as residential accommodation as expected in a
legitimate farm setting.

3[Page Council Reference: MCU18/0084