Resonse to Amended Plans - John Cochrane

If one assumes collection 5 days per week, this gives a total uncompacted waste generation
per week of 10,800 litres or 102 litres per room per week.

The amended application includes a waste management plan. Under this plan the
development is described as being composed of

   1. 69 Short Term Accommodation Units
   2. 746 m sq of Restaurant Area
The total uncompacted generation proposed in the plan is 37,228 l per week for general waste
and 7,446 l per week for Comingled recycling. This gives a total of 44,674 litres per week.

Thus, the amended plan includes waste management provision more than 4 times that
contained in the original submission. We should assume that either the revised scheme
produces much more waste or that the original application was not assessed properly and the
resultant planning report could not have properly assessed the impact of waste management
on the site.4

I have benchmarked the proposed waste generation under the amended plans against two
sources – The Calile Hotel (recently approved by Noosa Council) and the City of Sydney
Council Waste Management Guidelines.

The floorspace used is 4460 m.sq. for hotel use and 730 m.sq. for restaurant use. These
figures equate the total floorspace declared by the applicant. The restaurant floorspace
equates to that declared in the waste management report.

Benchmark 1 Sydney City Council – either classified as residential or hotel5

For Residential Units                         18,080 litres uncompacted waste per week
For Hotel Use                                 20,440 litres uncompacted waste per week
For Restaurant Use @ 700 .sq.                 35,840 litres uncompacted waste per week
For Restaurant Use @ 200 .sq.                 11,340 litres uncompacted waste per week

Note – the restaurant use has been modelled at 700 m.sq. as provided by the applicant,
however, 200 m.sq. is a much more realistic figure based on a maximum occupancy of 138
persons and a BCA Vol1 allowance of 1 m.sq. per diner plus bar space.

Therefore, the total uncompacted waste generation per week is between
Minimum                             29,420 litres uncompacted waste per week
Maximum                             56,280 litres uncompacted waste per week
depending on modelling assumptions.

Benchmark 2 Calile Hotel – Note SCC generation rates are used by the consultant6

Based on total @ Rooms 239                 184,389 litres uncompacted waste per week
Pro Rata @ Rooms 69                         53,233 litres uncompacted waste per week

Noosa Springs Hotel
4
  If this is the case, the planning report must be viewed as flawed – see conclusions
5
  See Appendix 2
6
  See Appendix 3