PM Submission Object - Sallie Strang - MCU18/0084

 

The development which will enable up to 24 persons to park their vehicles and be accommodated in 6 cabins
within say 26 to 50 metres from my fence line. One of the main reasons that these people will be
accommodated in these cabins will be to experience the rural lifestyle and its setting. The rural setting
includes my property which is just across the fence. The proposed accommodation of these people and their
sampling of the rural setting will erode my privacy regardless of whether | am attending to the nearby equine
activities or other activities in or near my rural outbuilding or just traveling down my access driveway. The
resulting loss of privacy is a serious concern to myself.

6. Loss of Privacy and Loss of Amenity

Leading on from above, in performing my rural activities, | believe there is a significant concern that the
people staying immediately next door would watch our activities and we would have no privacy. Movements
and unexpected behaviours so close to our pursuits is disruptive to the horses’ focus and a danger to
ourselves. The area adjacent to the proposed cabins is where we enjoy our time, have a camp fire and boil
the billy. All of this would be curtailed by having this development.

In regards to unexpected behavior so close to us, an example follows. In May, the neighbours set fire to a pile
of cut bamboo along with bamboo that was still standing which was near the fence line near the outbuilding.
It burnt 16m of the fence down, melting the wires, along with some of my trees. At the time, we had three
horses out in this vicinity around the outbuilding. My farrier was trimming one of the horse’s feet. The fire
caused the horse to rear, almost bowling him over. All three horses went crazy and there was a fear they
would run into the fences if not into my daughter or the farrier. My daughter managed to get one horse into
the round yard thinking it was safer and he even kept trying to jump the 6ft round yard fence. It was a very
dangerous situation.

ae The large dam and water ways so close to the cabins is dangerous for small children

The development application states that the market for this development is families. This would include
families with small children. The unprotected large dam and waterways, situated on the proposed
development site, as close as 25m from the cabins. Therefore, the site is unsuitable as there is a potential
drowning hazard with small children wandering and falling into the dam and waterways. It would only take a
minute or two of not supervising a child, for that child to have time to wander to these hazards.

8. The existing vehicular access into the site is not considered suitable for the proposed development.

The existing vehicular access into the proposed development site is considered to be dangerous for those
motorists that are unfamiliar with this particular access and/or who do not regularly use country roads. The
speed limit at the entrance is 90km/h. The visibility to the north from the proposed access can be restricted
at times due the shadows of surrounding trees and vegetation often growing along the cutting against the
roadway. The visibility from this access to the south can actually pass through the development site (i.e. not
along the public road) and can also be through fencing (depending on height of eye) which can at times
restrict visibility to the south.

9. The development application provides limited information on the two proposed land application
areas which are sited against my boundary fence and uphill from the cabins, that they service and
within landscaped buffers.

It is understood that the two land application areas for the onsite sewerage facilities are proposed to receive

in pressurized spraying of aerosols containing advanced secondary treated effluent over land immediately
adjacent to my land and where my horses graze. These land application areas appear to be within that strip

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