2021-12-07 Planning & Environment Committee Meeting Agenda - Updated

PLANNING & ENVIRONMENT COMMITTEE MEETING AGENDA                                        7 DECEMBER 2021


 AO11.4
 The use:                                       The site has access to Patterson Drive which    Yes
 a) is directly accessible from a sealed        is a sealed residential road. Patterson Drive
    road or a good standard gravelled           is not a 90+ KPH road.
    road; and
 b) does not gain direct access from a road
    with a legal speed limit of 90 kilometres
    per hour or above.


Performance Outcome PO9 – Safety and Environmental Nuisance
The Performance Outcome (PO9) requires that “…the nature and operation of the home-based
business does not result in noise, vibration, odour, dust, other air pollutants, light, glare or radio or
electrical emissions that can be experienced outside the subject property. The provision seeks to
ensure that home-based business remains domestic in scale, appropriate for a rural residential
site (do not constitute a medium or low impact industry) and that the activity would not generate
off site impacts or environmental nuisance. These elements are further assessed below.
Scale and Intensity
The home-based business comprises a small-scale meat processing facility that would operate
wholly within an existing 51.7m2 shed located in the north-western corner of the subject site. The
shed was established as part of the residential use occurring on the site and has now been
retrofitted to facilitate meat processing. Viewed externally, the shed has a typical rural residential
appearance (i.e. does not appear to resemble a meat processing facility) and is fully screened from
Patterson Road and generally well buffered from the adjoining landowners (90 & 76 Patterson
Drive).
In terms of scale and built form, the existing shed is subordinate and ancillary to the existing
dwelling which has an approximate gross floor area of 360m2. This does not include other outdoor
and recreational areas (pool, entertainments areas, gardens and landscaping etc.) attributed to the
residential activity, being the primary use occurring on the site.
The home-based business does not require any external staff and is operated wholly within an
existing building. Vehicle movements are limited to the operator and no delivery vehicles are
required to attend the site. The actual meat processing activity associated with the use would not
exceed regular hours of operation and Saturday and Sunday activity is limited to the loading and
unloading of the owner’s delivery vehicle (for sale of product offsite).
It is considered that in terms of scale and the intensity of the activity, the home-based business
maintains a domestic scale and operates in a manner that is subordinate to the residential use on
the premises.
Noise
The activity does require the use of mechanical equipment including internal and external
compressors, a band saw and a meat grinder which is audible within an immediate radius of the
facility.
The operation of the band saw, and meat grinder is not continuous and is limited to short intervals
during regular business hours. The use of the internal/external compressors are more frequent
(i.e., 15-minute intervals) for the purposes of internal climate regulation.
Although the facility requires the use of mechanical equipment, the shed has been constructed
with 150mm insulated panels to create a climate-controlled environment which double as acoustic
barriers. The external compressors have also been acoustically treated to suppress sound (sound
boxes).
Officers attended the site on 17 November 2021 and observed that the extent of noise generated
by the facility was only audible within the immediate proximity (i.e., 15 metres). It is not considered
likely that the facility would emit noise that is audible from any adjoining sensitive receptor.
Notwithstanding this, Council’s Environment and Health Officer has recommended environmental

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