PATRICIA (PAT) SPICER · Report

ORDINARY MEETING                                                                      20 MARCH 2025


8.2   PATRICIA (PAT) SPICER




QUESTION 1
In the council development application for expansion of the cemetery in 2008, a vegetated buffer
zone was included on all perimeter boundaries of the plan for the cemetery. This included Lake
Macdonald Drive boundary. The Cooroy Cemetery Management Plan repeatedly refers to the highly
attractive and strong sense of enclosure and privacy that is generated by the surrounding perimeter
of mature vegetation, especially the mature camphor laurels, pines and eucalypts to the southern,
western and northern boundaries and the mature pine plantation to the eastern boundary. These
statements are made in 8.2, policy 33, 9.2, 9.4, policy 38 to list a few. Council’s revised subdivision
plan appears to be an artist’s impression as the plan shows the open space between Lot 2 and 3
joins the full angled section of my fenceline which is inaccurate as the open space is 20m wide and
this fenceline is 29.5m. Open space is not a substitute for a buffer. As council is going to remove
most of the vegetation to the east of the existing cemetery as well as to the south and north, how
does council intend to address this improvident planning of no buffer zone on the plans of the
proposed subdivision and the boundary of the land being set aside for cemetery use (Lot 100 and
proposed Lot 1 and 2), on Lake Macdonald Drive for Lot 100 and the perimeter of Lot 3 on the
southern side and western side as well as privacy fencing on the western side where this land shares
a boundary with Lot 1 SP 118458 (my boundary) to ensure amenity for all residents as a matter of
urgency

QUESTION 2
In the Contamination report, a second round of land fill gas monitoring is to be carried out. At the site
meeting on 2 December, 2024 with the Environmental Consultant, a point was made by a resident
that in the report it suggests a second round of land fill gas monitoring would occur in Spring. The
Environmental consultant, Andrew Winters, said that the monitoring will happen and that he was
obliged to satisfy the government guidelines to do a second round of land fill gas monitoring when it
is a bit drier and warmer in case the gas is generated and picked up. As Spring has passed, when
will council engage the consultant to carry out this work prior to the remediation of the site
commencing?