MCU15/0095 & REC15/0022 PM Submission Object - Ian Suter

The Noosa Plan and associated                   planning scheme is due for review and does not reflect the current
circumstances          in neighbourhood            of the    proposed       Development.     The planning    scheme       may have
envisaged       Industrial       development       in the area at one time however           Community      Use, Openspace and
Residential         development       that has been approved            in the area since 2004 when the Noosa Plan was
prepared       makes it an incompatible             use of the land
due       to   community           amenity,     health      and   safety
concerns.


The       subject     Property      is currently     located      in an
Industry       Zone. It contains         no infrastructure        of an
industrial      nature       and     is not     adjoined     by other
Industry Zoned property.             It (Fig. 1) is bounded on two
sides by Eumundi-Noosa               Road and Walter Hay Drive.
The land which immediately                adjoins the Property         is
zoned Community              Uses, occupied by the School to the east and an electrical                substation   to the north.
Immediately          adjoining     the school as you progress along Walter Hay Drive is an oval used for sporting
and recreational         purposes (zoned Open Space Recreational)                  and a retirement   village (zoned Residential
Use).


The Noosa Plan is now almost twelve years old and well past the recognised use-by-date                                   for such an
instrument.         A reasonable        assessment       of the site as it currently         stands would     indicate    that   it is
incorrectly     zoned based on the way the site, and the surrounding                     neighbourhood,     has evolved over the
years.


As a matter of legacy rather than intent the remainder of the former Noosa Shire Council Depot, being
the subject          Lot 30 on SP 170751            (the Property),         continued   to be zoned "Industry".       The Church
purchased the Property from Noosa Shire Council on 20 December 2007. The Property shares a common
boundary with the School Health and Physical Education Centre and Childrens' Swimming Pool,


It is a matter of public records that in 2007 the Church was concerned about the possible development
of the site. The School stated at the time that a prospective                           developer   "... could establish a service
station on the site.. We are somewhat alarmed by the prospect of fuel storage tanks and fuel vapours
being so close".9

There is further        contention'O      that there' was a verbal agreement             at the time of the purchase in 2007
between the Church and Noosa Shire Council that the Property " ... would not be mode available to ather
commercial enterprises"u and that the Property would provide a buffer zone between the School
Community           Services Zone and the nearby Industry Zone. The alleged verbal agreement                     struck between
the Noosa Shire Council and the Church "... never envisaged that [the) land would be made available for
a service station"." The veracity of this agreement is consistent with the demonstrated                              cooperation



8 https:! /www.gslc.qld.edu.au/news.aspx            ?article=99
9 ibid

10 Counsellor Frank Pardon quoted             in Gardner P, Noosa News, 9 December 2015
11 ibid

12 ibid




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