2022-09-06 Planning & Environment Meeting Agenda

PLANNING & ENVIRONMENT COMMITTEE MEETING AGENDA                               6 SEPTEMBER 2022


3      RAL21/0035 – APPLICATION TO RECONFIGURE A LOT (1 LOT INTO 2 LOTS) AT 21
       JIRIMMA CRESCENT, COOROIBAH

Author                Coordinator Planning, Patrick Murphy
                      Environment and Sustainable Development Department

Index                 ECM/ Application/ RAL21/0035

Attachments           1.   Proposal Plans


    APPLICATION DETAILS
    Applicant                     Ian W Rowe
                                  Janis Rae Rowe
    Proposal                      Reconfiguring a Lot – 1 into 2 lots
    Properly Made Date            24 December 2021
    Information Request Date      24 January 2022
    Information Response Date     29 April 2022
    Decision Due Date             16 September 2022
    Number of Submissions         Not applicable
    PROPERTY DETAILS
    Property Address              21 Jirrima Crescent Cooroibah
    RP Description                Lot 46 RP 136461
    Land Area                     43,910m²
    Existing Use of Land          Dwelling House
    STATUTORY DETAILS
    SEQRP Designation             Rural Living Area
    Zone                          Rural Residential
    Precinct                      Not applicable
    Local Plan Area               Not applicable
    Overlays                      Acid Sulfate Soils
                                  Biodiversity, Waterways and Wetlands
                                  Bushfire Hazard
                                  Flood Hazard
    Assessment Type               Code

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
This application seeks to reconfigure an existing lot at Cooroibah into 2 rural residential lots. The
lot is constrained by flooding, bushfire, riparian buffer and vegetation protection under the
Biodiversity Code. Whilst the applicant has provided a potentially suitable dwelling house site
outside the Probable Maximum Flood (PMF), they have failed to demonstrate that the lot has
suitable access across the site’s waterway and a sufficient fire buffer is maintained to the building
envelope in response to the required revegetation of the riparian buffer area.
Despite requests for further information and meetings with the applicant, Council has not been
supplied with sufficient detail to address concerns in regard to the impact of flooding on the access
to the rear house site (depth, velocity and duration). Therefore, Council does not have an
appropriate level of information that demonstrates that flooding would not comprise the safety of
future residents who require safe access/egress during rain events.


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