Notice of Submission Form Lot 30sm

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1. Application details
File No MCU15/0095 & REC15/0022
Postal address of Land (as advertised) 115 Eumundi Road, Noosaville QLD 4566, Lot 30 on SP170751
Nature of Proposed Development From Vacant Land to Retail Business Type 2 (Shop), type 5 (Service Station) & Reconfigure a Lot (1 Lot into 2 Lots).

2. Submitter details
Full name of Submitter Stephen Miller
Email Address [email protected]
Postal address 2 Defender Court
Suburb Sunrise Beach	State QLD	Postcode 4567
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N.B.	This form has been designed for the convenience of the public, and any persons wishing to lodge a submission are not obliged to use this form.

3. Details of Submission
I Stephen Miller, make the following submission:
That I oppose the development of a Petrol Station on Lot 30 on the grounds that it is not safe for students to build a Petrol Station so close to a school and that the proposed Petrol Station will be in very near proximity to both the School Pool and Gymnasium.
Petrol stations and schools are not a good mix.  For example in "Dangerous Ground" a Monash University paper published in 2012 - http://artsonline.monash.edu.au/dangerousground/something-in-the-air-benzene/
It is stated –
.... the US Journal of Environmental Management in December 2010 suggested that emissions from evaporated petrol or fuel, contaminates the surrounding area with volatile materials, including the carcinogen benzene. This means that the atmosphere in the immediate vicinity of service stations can be contaminated up to 50 metres away. The study recommended that their findings be used to establish exclusion zones around current and future petrol stations, for the health and safety of residents and the community.
Clearly the proposed petrol station will be situated closer than 50 metre to both the College’s Gymnasium and Swimming Pool, thereby posing a contamination and health and safety risk to students.
Another study in the US Journal of Toxicology and Environmental Health in 2009 http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/15287390802477338?url_ver=Z39.88-2003&rfr_id=ori%3Arid%3Acrossref.org&rfr_dat=cr_pub%3Dpubmed&
investigated the relationship between childhood leukaemia..., including exposure to benzene and other hydrocarbons. The study examined childhood deaths in Taiwan from 1996 to 2006, and petrol station density in the child’s residential municipality. It concluded that there was a positive exposure-response relationship between the two.
As the proposed Petrol Station is adjacent to a P-12 College, it is submitted that it is too great a risk to expose the College students to an increased threat of contracting leukaemia or other benzene related illnesses.  Surely in the light of such studies the Council should not wait for students to contract such illnesses and it would therefore prudent not to allow the proposed development to proceed.
In the Journal of Environmental Management, it states that the scientists said a 'minimum' distance of 50 metres should therefore be maintained between petrol stations and housing, and 100 metres for 'especially vulnerable' facilities such as hospitals, health centres, schools and old people's homes.  The study, published in the Journal of Environmental Management, shows the air at petrol stations and in their immediate surroundings is especially affected by emissions stemming from evaporated vehicle fuels. This includes unburnt fuel from fuel loading and unloading operations, refuelling and liquid spillages.
Clearly there is sufficient literature about the dangers of petrol stations and their toxic fumes to draw a conclusion that it is ‘reasonably forseeable’ that students and staff would be put at risk as a result of the development of a Petrol Station on Lot 30 due to its immediate proximity to the College.  Whilst ‘safe guards’ and the latest technology to protect student will no doubt be promised and government  guidelines followed, surely students at the College cannot be guaranteed by the Noosa Council or the Developer that they will not be at risk if a Petrol Station is built on Lot 30.  Therefore I oppose the application to develop Lot 30 into a Petrol Station.

The Second ground upon which I object to the development of a petrol station on Lot 30 is that therefore there is no need for another petrol station in the vicinity.
The Third ground is based on traffic – the location of the proposed development doen’t allow for the safe access of vehicles to and from the proposed location, particularly during before and after school hours.

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	Notice of Submission under the Sustainable Planning Act 2009
2015/16

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