MCU15/0095 & REC15/0022 PM Submission Object - N Asher

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 record" 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 estoblish a service
station on the site.. We are somewhat alarmed by the prospect of fuel staroge tanks and fuel vapaurs
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 made available to ather
commercial enterprises"" 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
, ibid
10 Counsellor Frank Pardon quoted in Gardner P, Noosa News, 9 December 2015
11 ibid

" ibid



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