Properly Made submission (object) Greg Barber - MCU13/0092

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        Scale. The proposed development by Multi span Australia Ltd of a supermarket and eight specialty

        shops is of a scale that is incompatible with the Peregian Village precinct. Our town is well served by
        the existing supermarket and specialty shops. I am able to cycle to the village square and procure

        any item I might require. I do notwish the commercial precinct to spill over to the area currently      \



        zoned for community recreational use. The proposed development is bigger than the village requires,

        and surplus to our needs.


        Zoning. The proposed development does not comply with the Noosa Plan 2006 and the Sunshine
        Coast Planning Scheme 2012. The land is currently zoned pubiic recreation use, and I am a resident

        who wishes to use the site for recreation. Until the Pine Rivers Bowls club bought the site, I taught
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        Rhee Taekwondo with Philip Hayse, in the bowls club half way house. Now, Peregian residents,

        myself included, must travel to the Cooroy Badminton club for classes. We wish to return our classes
        to a suitable venue on the site, and believe that there are interested parties wishing to purchase the

        land to develop recreation related activities. My children used to play beach volleyball on the site

        and would no doubt return to doing so, if the site was once again made available. There is a demand

        for recreational use of the site, there is no demand for another supermarket and more shops. There

        is no other land in Peregian that could be used for recreational purposes, so it is imperative that the

        site retain its current zoning.


        Economy. There is a surfeit of supermarkets in proximity to Peregian Beach. Residents are well
        served by the existing supermarket in Peregian, which would struggle to compete with the proposed

        IGA store. There are Woolworths and Coles supermarkets nearby at Coolum, and Peregian Springs.

        Residents of Peregian Beach make use of the Coles and IGA supermarkets at Noosa Junction,

        Noosaville, Tewantin and the Noosa Civic site. There is no evidence that the proposed shopping
        centre would create   jobs for Peregian residents, and the dollars spent would flow out of town to the
        owners ofthe IGA    (who own other IGA supermarkets) and to IGA headquarters interstate. Eight new
        specialty shops are not required and would place economic stress on some of Peregian’s already
        struggling businesses. There is a point where convenience crosses a line to become laziness. Another
        supermarket in our town would cross that line. It is unwarranted.

        Traffic. I cycle regularly to Peregian Springs, passing through the Woodland drive intersection with
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        the David Low Way, and the Rufous street intersection. The proposed development would attract

        increased traffic to both intersections and make them unsafe for pedestrians and cyclists. My wife is

        a staff member at   Peregian Beach College. She, other staff members and some students cycle or
        walk along Woodland drive and through the national park to Murdering Creek road during their daily

        commute. Peregian     Springs residents also use the same route to cycle and walk to the -beach, or for
        exercise. Increased traffic flow in Woodland drive represents a hazard to commuting schoolchildren,

        walkers, cyclists and recreational runners, walkers and cyclists. Further, on fortnightly Peregian
        Market days and Peregian Originals concert days, traffic is gridlocked. The proposed development

        would attract increased traffic that would exacerbate the problem.


        Amenity. Most business and commercial activity in Peregian Beach is contained within the village
        square precinct, east of the David Low Way. I am one of the residents who has been disappointed
        that the Peregian Beach Hotel and an office building have been developed on the western side. I do

        not think commercial development should sprawl any further, certainly not into the recreation and

        community zoned land. A supermarket and specialty shops are not in keeping with the neighbouring

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    tennis courts, Di Hurst oval, kindergarten and veggie village. The proposal would destroy the unique

    character of our town, and make it indistinguishable from other uninspired suburban shopping

    centres. It would certainly diminish the liveability of the neighbourhood. The night
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    trucks delivering goods to the supermarket, and shift working night fillers and security-guards
                                                                                      of residents in
    coming and going, together with waste removal trucks would destroy the peace
    Woodland drive, Cormorant street and adjoining st~,eets. Noise and headlights sweeping across

    homes would be an annoyance and diminish the amenity of the existing residential, non-

    commercial neighbour hood. The proposed development has potential to attract anti-social activity

    into a residential precinct late at night. Presently, nuisance behaviour, graffiti and vandalism are
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    confined to the commercial precinct east of the David Low Way, where few residents are disturbed.

                                                                                                    Council
    For the reasons outlined above, I urge the professional staff of the Sunshine coast Regional
                                                                                material change of use
    planning department to reject the application on behalf of Multi Span for a
    from public recreation to commercial, and disallow the application to develop a supermarket and

    specialty shops.