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

monitor.     Students enjoy some freedom           of movement           in their designated recess areas. School staff
already has a high level of responsibility overseeing students during these times.


The school swimming pools have changing areas that are exposed and easily accessed by unwanted
members of the public, posing a threat to the safety of children who have, to date enjoyed a peaceful,
safe space to shower, change and relax before or after swimming classes. The changing areas serving
the school swimming pools and Health and Physical Education Centre remain open from 5 am to 7 pm
open so that children can make use of these facilities. They are within very close proximity to the pools
and sports compiex. These are extremely                high-risk areas in terms of vulnerability                  and exposure as
children are showering, changing and naturally focused on their sports activities.


It is unthinkable to put children at risk of being interfered with, abused or abducted because of the close
proximity of the service station and the threats posed to their privacy and entitlement                              to safe, secure
facilities. The changing facilities and showers are currently unsupervised as well as unlocked. The safety
issue would warrant these spaces to be policed at all times throughout                        the day - from S am to 5.30 pm
daily. The toilet facilities for students and staff of GSLCremain open during the day for use as required.
Unwanted trespassers from the proposed service station could easily access these essential facilities,
which makes our children and school staff easy targets and unnecessarily vulnerable to aberrant abuses,
attacks and criminal activity.


Temptation       for children to duck out of school and purchase food and drink, to play truant                              and to
innocently     and unwittingly        expose themselves to the raft of dangers as mentioned                       above, posed by
accessibility to a retail outlet and random members of the public frequenting                         the service station.


Queensland is far from immune to the Australia wide drug supply and trafficking                               problem. Such close
proximity of a service station, with open public access could make our children an easy target for drug
supply and trafficking.


The service station is not wanted near our students who would be made vulnerable by easy access. This
issue can be avoided by rejecting the proposal for the service station In such close proximity                               to the
school.


Children and GSLCteachers will be exposed to the increased risk of fire, which can be triggered as easily
as by dropping a mobile phone. Shell Australia Health and Safety documentation                                   says: "Dropping   a
mobile phone or switching it on or off can cause sparks, which may ignite petrol vapours".


Unlawful behaviour is all too frequent around service stations. November 2014 just down the road in
Eumundi.' Noosa gunman stole a Channel 7 television news car at gunpoint and crashed it into a large
gas tank at Eumundi Petrol Station.


Clearly a site within such close proximity to the Good Shepherd Lutheran Coilege is unsuitable for the
proposed deveiopment where children may be exposed to violence, terror and recalcitrant choices from



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