MCU15/0095 & REC15/0022 PM Submission Object - Peter Livesey

                                                                       practice demands that service station facilities be set
                                                                       back a far greater distance from the School.

  2.   The nearest           structure       on the        school      The relevance of this statement                 is unclear and if
       boundary       is the pump house for the                        anything demonstrates the proximity of the proposed
       school pool                                                     service station to the School pool facilities used by
                                                                       toddlers and young children.

  3. The          proposed         service         station        is   Visual distinction is the least of the concerns that are
       orientated        away from the school and                      associated with          the location       of a service station
       towards        the     Eumundi-          Noosa        Road      adjacent      to,     indeed   adjoining,     a School and its
       frontage,         providing        visual    distinction        associated health and physical education facilities.
       between both sites.

  4. The service            station       refuelling      area    is   The       Applicant     provides    no      justification       for   its
       sufficiently       distanced        from    the school          assertion      that     the    Development         "is      sufficiently
       boundary which is greater than 25m.                             distanced from the school boundary which is greater
                                                                       than 25m."


                                                                       In the contrary we have demonstrated                     elsewhere in
                                                                       this document that international             and Australian best
                                                                       practice demands that service station facilities be set
                                                                       back a far greater distance from the School.

  S. All vehicle access relating to the service                        The relevance of this statement is once again unclear.
       station     and       future       proposed         Lot     2   The access being off Eumundi-Noosa Road, which is
       development           is obtained       via Eumundi-            the same as the access to the School and only a short
       Noosa Road which is more than suitably                          distance away creates the potentiai                   for increased
       distanced      from        the school access              off   traffic     queuing     and obstruction         along       the    short
       Walter Hay Drive.                                               stretch of road between the two entrances.

  6. A dedicated pedestrian                   pathway        from      Again the relevance of this statement is unclear. The
       Walter      Hay Drive          is proposed.            This     pathway provides no additional                protection        for the
       pathway        connects        Walter       Hay Drive           School children. Indeed it provides further unwanted
       directly     to      the    site     and     the      store     opportunity         for children to access the shop, which is
       building,      thus     reducing        any potential           undoubtedly         the main purpose of the development,
       conflict       between             pedestrians            and   that is to encourage the school children to purchase
       vehicles.                                                       from the shop and increase the profits to the owner
                                                                       at the expense of - and threat                 to -       the School
                                                                       children.


The Applicant has also failed to respond seriously and comprehensively to Council's request for further
information   regarding the Airborne Hazards in proximity to the SLhool identified by Council as an area of
criticai importance to the Development application:


  Applicant's Response                        Objectors' Response

   1. Benzene as an active                    The Applicant provides mere idle assertion in the face of the evidence



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