MUC12/0184 - Objection - Ken and Lyn Nowland

Subject: Cooroy broiler farm submission
From: Kevin Nowland
Date: 2014-08-24T02:31:00+00:00
To: Mailbox Council Mail

Dear council planning staff,
                                                We have lived on Top Forestry Rd for about 30 years, having moved to the countryside for the quality of life.

Our gravel road is winding, dusty, and substandard, but we have put up with this because of the other benefits – quietness and clean air and water.

We were therefore dismayed to hear that an application had been made to run chicken meat barns in our neighbourhood. As we have had the opportunity to look into the the size of this proposal and look at the affects of similar operations else ware, we are horrified about the effect it will have on ours and our neighbours quality of life and the environment.

The land is steep and inappropriate for buildings of this size. The Milligans have had a mango and avocado farm for many years, but this is not sustainable farming in the normal sense. These are huge sheds, require massive earthworks and will lead to even more soil erosion and pollution of the water ways in these valleys.

From talking to other people where similar chicken barns operate, it will cause airborne pollution of our drinking water, offensive odour and attract wild dogs and vermin to the area.

 Our biggest concern of all however is the road. Accidents are a regular event, with three outside our gate over the past year. Because the road is winding and narrow, meeting a truck while driving is real event and our daughter had to go off the road into a ditch recently to avoid a collision with the school bus.

Mr Milligan has now suggested in a revised submission that sections of road could be designated as one way. That would be a step backwards for traffic movement on our road, not progress. We believe the road conditions make it totally unsuitable for large trucks, plus we would be subjected to the dust and noise that they will produce.

The majority of local residents are against this proposal for similar reasons
i.e  the pollution, noise, road danger and land degradation.

For the above reasons, we ask the Council planning staff to reject the application.

Yours faithfully
Kevin and Lyn Nowland