PM Submission - Chris Calogeras - MCU25/0118

                                                 Noosa Council – Notice of Submission


                Attention:        Assessment Manager— Noosa Shire Council                  Date:22/11/2025
                                  [email protected]
                                  PO Box 141 Tewantin Qld 4565

                Re:       Submission on Proposed Development
                Details
                Application Number: MCU25/0118
                Postal Address of Site: 64 Lake Macdonald Drive, Lake Macdonald QId 4563
                Proposed Development: Development Permit for Material Change of Use by Coast2Bay for Multiple
                Dwellings — Affordable Rental Premises 25 X small dwellings plus one community room dwelling.
                Submitter
                Christopher Calogeras
                38 Lake Ridge Crt, Lake Macdonald, Qld, 4563
                Detail of Submission
                I support social housing on the basis it is undertaken with those that will use the housing and
                the community both benefiting from its building – this site fails in a number of areas. I
                therefore note the following in respect to the above development on the following grounds:
                Location:
                The proposed site is not consistent with best practice social housing due to its distance
                from amenities and the lack of any form of public or other types of transport, such as
                taxi and uber in this location. The fallacy that this site is close to town and access to
                amenities is simple is false. If these forms of traffic are not available each resident will
                need at least one form of their own transport – most likely a car leading to increased
                issues within the Cooroy area.
                The steep nature of the site is not conducive to people with mobility issues and being
                able to easily move across the site and/or easily walk to and from town with groceries
                etc.
                During construction, so far ,the excessive run off has been easily visible across the road
                and when further hard surfaces are established, run off will increase causing negative
                impacts across the broader ecosystem
                Cost benefits from rehabilitation activities does not provide a positive return when
                housing costs are also included – these resources would be better utilised in other
                areas.
                It is unclear how the determination that this land, or at least a larger portion, is not
                needed for cemetery uses into the future and further pigeon holing a cemetery into a
                residential development appear at very least odd.



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