MCU15/0095 & REC15/0022 PM Submission Object - Petition - D Strong (Principal Submitter)

                                                  practice demands that service station facilities be set
                                                  back a far greater distance from the School.

   2. The nearest structure on the school         The relevance of this statement is unclear and if
      boundary is the pump house for the          anything demonstrates the proximity of the proposed
       school pool                                service station to the School pool facilities used by
                                                  toddlers and young children.

   3. The     proposed service station  is        Visual distinction is the least of the concerns that are
      orientated away from the school and         associated    with the location of a service     station
       towards the Eumundi- Noosa Road            adjacent     to, indeed   adjoining,
                                                                                     a School and its
       frontage, providing visual distinction     associated health and physical education facilities.
       between both sites.

  4. The service station refuelling area is The Applicant provides no justification for its
     sufficiently distanced from the school assertion that the Development lIis sufficiently
     boundary which is greater than 25m.    distanced from the school boundary which is greater
                                                  than 25m."

                                                  In the contrary we have demonstrated      elsewhere in
                                                  this document that international and Australian best
                                                  practice demands that service station facilities be set
                                                  back a far greater distance from the School.

  S. All vehicle access relating to the service   The relevance of this statement is once again unclear.
     station and future proposed Lot 2            The access being off Eumundi-Noosa Road, which is
     development is obtained via Eumundi-         the same as the access to the School and only a short
       Noosa Road which is more than suitably     distance away creates the potential      for increased
       distanced from the school access off       traffic queuing   and obstruction along the       short
      Walter Hay Drive.                           stretch of road between the two entrances.

   6. A dedicated pedestrian pathway from Again the relevance of this statement is unclear. The
      Walter Hay Drive is proposed. This pathway provides no additional protection for the
      pathway connects Walter Hay Drive School children. Indeed it provides further unwanted
      directly to the site and the store opportunity for children to access the shop, which is
      building, thus reducing any potential undoubtedly the main purpose of the development,
      conflict    between    pedestrians    and   that is to encourage the school children to purchase
      vehicles.                                   from the shop and increase the profits to the owner
                                                  at the expense of - and threat to -         the School
                                                  children.


The Applicant has also failed to respond seriously and comprehensively to Council's request for further
information regarding the Airborne Hazards in proximity to the School identified by Council as an area of
critical importance to the Deveiopment application:


  Applicant's Response           Objectors' Response

   1. Benzene as an active      The Applicant provides mere idle assertion in the face of the evidence



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