MCU15/0095 & REC15/0022 PM Submission Object - Nadine Love

the Noosa Plan was prepared makes it an incompatible use of the land due to community
amenity, health and safety concerns.

The subject Property is currently located in an Industry Zone. It contains no infrastructure of an
industrial nature and is not adjoined by other Industry Zoned property. It (Fig. 1) is bounded on
two sides by Eumundi-Noosa Road and Walter
Hay Drive. The land which immediately adjoins
the Property is zoned Community Uses,
occupied by the School to the east and an
electrical substation to the north. Immediately
adjoining the school as you progress along
Walter Hay Drive is an oval used for sporting and
recreational purposes (zoned Open Space
Recreational) and a retirement village (zoned
Residential Use).

The Noosa Plan is now almost twelve years old and well past the recognised use-by-date for
such an instrument. A reasonable assessment of the site as it currently stands would indicate
that it is incorrectly zoned based on the way the site, and the surrounding neighbourhood, has
evolved over the years.

As a matter of legacy rather than intent the remainder of the former Noosa Shire Council Depot,
being the subject Lot 30 on SP 170751 (the Property), continued to be zoned .Industry •. The
Church purchased the Property from Noosa Shire Council on 20 December 2007. The Property
shares a common boundary with the School Health and Physical Education Centre and
Childrens' Swimming Pool,

It is a matter of public record" that in 2007 the Church was concerned about the possible
development of the site. The School stated at the time that a prospective developer "... could
establish a service station on the site.. We are somewhat       alarmed   by the prospect   of fuel
storage tanks and fuel vapours being so close"."


There is further contention 10 that there was a verbal agreement at the time of the purchase in
2007 between the Church and Noosa Shire Council that the Property •... would not be made
available to other commercial enterprises"" and that the Property would provide a buffer zone
between the School Community Services Zone and the nearby Industry Zone. The alleged
verbal agreement struck between the Noosa Shire Council and the Church •... never envisaged
that [the] land would be made available for a service station".'2 The veracity of this agreement is
consistent with the demonstrated cooperation between the Church and the Noosa Shire Council
in the School's development over many years 13. It would seem evident that the School and the
Church had intended the area to be protected for the benefit and protection of the children at
the School. This arrangement would appear consistent with the Church's publicised desire, and


" https:/Iwww.gslc.qld.edu.au/news.aspx?arlicle=99
" ibid
10 CounsellorFrank Pardonquotedin GardnerP, NoosaNews,9 December2015
" ibid
'2 ibid
13 ibid




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