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Noosa Council - Notice of Submission to accompany council form - 8.1.19

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1. General

| am the owner of Unit 8303 within the Viridian Noosa development and | visit the resort
now known as ‘Peppers Noosa Resort’ on a regular basis. | have inspected the site of the
proposed development in Attunga Heights and in particular, the siting of the proposed Lot 3
and its access off the internal road belonging to our development, Morwood drive.

2. Application Overall

| have studied the drawings produced by the applicant's architects, Tim Ditchfield
Architects and have no significant concerns about the proposal other than the placement of
Lot 3 off our access road. The unit design is in my informed opinion, in keeping with the
tenets of the Noosa Plan and I have no objection to the building forms and style proposed
for the bulk of the development, in short, they conform with what Council seeks to promote
as ‘Maintaining the Noosa Style’ - Part 1 of the Plan, Introduction, Community Vision,
Clause 1.4.1 (h).

. Lot 3 Environmental Issues

The decision of the developer to seek a separate lot for a detached house on Lot 3 is not in
keeping with the bulk of the development off Attunga Heights as it will be totally isolated
from the rest of the development with no formal access to either the rest of the buildings
nor the street address of 27 Attunga Heights. This lot is North East of the established
waterway which our development has assiduously protected during construction and
maintained and enhanced ever since, it remains a buffer to the road access off Viewland
drive and is a haven for birdlife and other native fauna for the whole precinct.

Lot 3 is proposed to be on a sliver of gently sloping land off Morwood drive which is
currently covered with substantial trees of the same varieties which populate the creek or
waterway for the full extent of the development. This application seeks to totally destroy a
substantial part of that vegetation and will be a major visual and environmental interruption
to the creek landscape continuum which currently exists.

As recently as the 28" of December last, | noticed the presence of a koala in one of the
major trees beside the road only 50M from the site of the proposed access point for this Lot
3 and it was attracting the quiet admiration of all who saw it, this situation will not last if a
house lot and permanent human habitation is allowed in that area.

The Noosa Plan presciently makes the case in ‘Community Vision’, Clause 1.4.1 (d)
Environmental excellence, sustainability and this proposal makes a comprehensive
mockery of that clear intention. Also, in Clause 1.4.4, council states unequivocally that it
has ‘commitment to environmental excellence’. Again, it is difficult to agree that this siting