Submission · MCU13/0092

36 LORILET STREET
PEREGIAN BEACH
QLD 4573
PHONE 07 5448 2179
PHIL ROBERTSON   L.L.B
           14 August, 2013
            The Chief Executive Officer
            Sunshine Coast Council
             [email protected]

             Dear Sir
Re: Application No. MCU13/0092 Development Permit for Material Change of use     of premises (Entertainment and dining type 1 Food & beverages, Commercial Type 1 office and Retail business Type 2 Shop & Salon) situated at 5-7 Rufous Street Peregian Beach
As an 18-year resident of Peregian Beach I wish to lodge a submission opposing the above development.
The land in question is currently zoned Open Space Recreation under Division 13 - General provisions for the Eastern Beaches Locality Code and Division 14 – Overall outcomes for the Eastern Beaches Locality, section 7.8.2 p) For Peregian Beach x) For the Open Space recreation Zone of the Noosa Plan – which states the following:

areas of open space contribute to the desired lifestyle of residents by offering a variety of passive and active recreational experiences that are conducive to community interaction and wellbeing
The proposed development is inconsistent with the intent of the zoning.
      Division 23, Section 7.40 Inconsistent Uses lists Commercial business and Retail business as inconsistent uses within the Open Space Recreation Zone with no probable solutions provided.
      Division 24, Specific Outcomes and Probable Solutions for the Open Space Conservation Zone, Section 7.44 – Inconsistent Uses lists All Business Uses as inconsistent, with no probable solutions provided.

     The surrounding area in this part of Peregian Beach includes a tennis club, child care centre and sports oval.  The proposed development will increase traffic through Rufous Street which will have a negative visual, acoustic and safety impact on those existing uses.
      Further, the proposed access and egress from Woodland Drive into Rufous Street will be detrimental upon surrounding residential properties as Woodland Drive is a residential collector street feeding onto David Low Way, and traffic generated by the proposed development will have a substantial adverse impact on the amenity of this residential area. The intersection with David Low Way would be chaotic.
The proposed service vehicle access and manoeuvring arrangements also appear to be insufficient.

Peregian Beach currently has a grocery store located in the village square at 6 Heron Street and an approval for commercial use (mini market) at 215-219 David Low Way.
In addition, there are already five full-sized supermarkets within a 10 minute drive of the proposed site - an IGA and a Coles at Noosa Junction, a Coles and a Woolworths at Coolum and another Coles at Peregian Springs.  This is already a ridiculous over-supply of supermarkets serving a place like Peregian Beach which has a very small population and cannot grow due to being bound on all sides by National Parks and ocean.
      For these reasons there is clearly no need for a development of this type to be approved for Peregian Beach on this property. It is hard to imagine that such a small population could ever support its own supermarket and if it fails, what then?
      The village-like atmosphere of Peregian Beach, which has attracted a wide range of successful tourist destination businesses, would be under severe threat by such a large commercial development and livelihoods of locals potentially badly compromised.
Finally, I believe that it is highly inequitable that the current Brisbane-based owner of the land, which paid virtually nothing for the land when the old bowling club reached out to it for a helping hand, should be allowed to unjustly enrich itself and the developer when neither has any interest in our area. It is patently wrong.
      In summary, I believe that the proposed development cannot be supported under the current Town Plans and will have a negative impact on the immediate area, the current uses and local residents and does not contribute any positive service of value on land zoned for Open Space Recreation.

Yours faithfully,

Philip John Robertson
36 Lorilet Street,
Peregian Beach, 4573
Phone 5448 2179

August 14, 2013
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