Helitak MCU App - Planning Report

The Planning and Environment Court issued its judgment and Development Approval on 18
November 2016 which triggered the assessment and issue of Infrastructure Charges Notice N1163 on
5 December 2016 in accordance with:

   • Sustainable Planning Act 2009;

   • State Planning Regulatory Provision (adopted charges) July 2012 as amended by Adopted
       Charges Schedule 2016 (SPRP); and

   • Council’s Charges Resolution (No.2) 2014 (Amendment 1) effective date 28 October 2016. The
       Infrastructure Charges Notice required the applicant to pay the amount of $250,096 at the
       current Adopted Infrastructure Charges Schedule 2016 index date (29 July 2016).

An appeal was lodged with the Planning and Environment Court on the 11 January 2017 seeking the
court to set aside the infrastructure charge.

As a result of the appeal an amended infrastructure charge notice was issued on 14 February 2018

A change to the development approval MCU14/0039 was approved on the 5 December 2018 to
amend the bunds in relation to firefighting access to the greenhouse.

The site has a history as a turf farm and an abandoned intense cropping use within the existing
greenhouse. Both uses have been abandoned as insufficient water supply hampered the ability of
the businesses to be viable.



4.3 Surrounding Land Uses

As illustrated in Figure 3, the subject site is surrounded by rural low lying land to the west. Noting
some of these lots are cleared and some fully vegetated. Tewantin National Park is located further
to the west.

   • To the east - a few rural residential sized lots and Lake Macdonald.

   • To the south - Wimmers, formerly PGH Brickworks

   • North – small Rural zoned lots.



4.4      Current Registered Landowner

The Current Registered Landowner of the subject site is Jasemri Pty Ltd as Trustee for the Jasemri
Property Trust and trades as Helitak Fire Fighting Equipment Pty Ltd. The above details are
confirmed by the Certificate of Title enclosed within this application.




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