PM Submission Object - Raymond Kirby - MCU18/0019

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                              Details of submission



The following submission is made in objection to proposed development

                             File No.MCU18/0019.

                    Postal address 52-62 Goodchap Street




                          3-11 Val Crescent, Noosaville.




                      •    Non-adherence to the Noosa Plan
                •    Unreasonable over- development of site.
•   Loss of personal privacy and forced changes to current lifestyle.



              Refer attached 3-page document for details.

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ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGES:

Building a gO-bed aged care facility across the road from a g2-bed Private Hospital will
increase the pressure on all levels of local infrastructure.

Parking: An additional 53 car parks will not cater for the patients, staff, friends, relatives,
visiting doctors, and health care providers, trades people, commercial Reps, and all
attending this proposed new centre on a daily basis. An added burden will be placed on the
inadequate street parking, already under stress trying to cope with the overflow from
limited hospital parking.

Waste: The large volume of sewerage and grey water output will place an additional strain
on the current decades old system channelled under the footpaths of Southern Val Crescent
residents.

The daily rubbish generated will be far greater than the 11 current and separate allotments
and will have to be collected on a more regular basis adding to the noise and stress levels
experienced by neighbours.

Outlook: The removal of all existing trees will be an aesthetic and environmental      loss in no
way compensated by the token planting of a few boutique replacements.

               This Pine tree breeds generation after generation of magpie chics.




The evergreen canopy is home and playground to a variety of birds, including noisy miners,
 blue faced honey eaters, crested pigeons, butcher birds, currawongs and others along with
 the ubiquitous possums, and even scrub turkeys. We find our current, leafy Northern
 outlook quite pleasant and would miss the relaxing bird songs and arboreal activity should
 the stands of trees on these blocks be cleared.

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THE CONSTRUCTIONSITE:

The stress of living right beside a major construction     site for more than a year will be quite
detrimental   to the health and wellbeing of residents who have been enjoying the relative
peace and quiet of residential, detached houses only, zoned urban living for years. We feel
secure in the belief that a project of this scale will never happen because it is in direct
conflict with the Noosa Plan.

Should it proceed, the noise, dirt and dust will affect not only residents of Gooschap Street
and Val Crescent but those living in nearby streets, hospital patients, staff and visitors as
well as all travelling through the area.

The non-stop cacophony of chainsaws and tree shredding grinders will be the first onslaught
as the greenery is cleared. Then the bulldozers will move in to demolish the existing houses
and buildings before the high decibel gravel trucks plant and machinery take over to
excavate 5-6,OOOsq.m x 15m. (Approximately).      At that depth the resultant water will have to
be drained by pumps running all day and probably all night, over-taxing our storm water
drainage system and possibly adding to the sediment levels in Lake Doonella.

Week in week out, for 14-16 months, from 7am Monday mornings to Middays on Saturday,
this is the scenario local ratepayers will be experiencing.

The magnitude and depth of this dig also raises concerns over land movement on adjacent
properties. There has already been slippage and water pipe ruptures in this area.

With the complete clearance of all greenery, gardens and buildings leading to the overall
excavation of this site for the foundations   and the proposed underground car park the
direct exposure of surrounding properties to Goodchap Street (and Val Crescent) foot and
vehicular traffic will also be a major security concern.




 The current view of Northern Val Cres, looking along the proposed development           fence line,
                          which is all to be demolished and "re-built".

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LIFESTYLECHANGESAND PRIVACYCONCERNS:

The strain of living alongside a huge, site-covering, long, continuous 2 storey building will
force changes to the lifestyle and add major privacy concerns to those currently residing in
Val Crescent.

The general noise generated by 90 patients and up to 35 staff. Lift motors, air-conditioning
and the daily general hubbub will be confronting.

Neighbours on the Southern Border of this centre will have first and 2nd floor bedrooms
overlooking their backyards. There will be a sensitive-care, ground floor courtyard next to
their side fence. A sensitive-care terrace is proposed right beside our front fence as well as
2nd floor balconies overlooking the front yards of neighbouring established homes.

The increased pedestrian traffic on Val Cres. (A quiet, narrow back street with no footpaths)
will include visitors and staff walking inmates, as well as the current numbers of commuters
accessing the hospital. The increased vehicular traffic will see cars, vans, and even trucks
going back and forth looking for parking places and greatly increasing the accident risk and
mayhem in this "no- thoroughfare"    cul-de-sac.




There are no positives in placing one single aged-care facility on these 11 separate
allotments. It would be significant over population and will gift a rather bleak future to
those who currently Iivec here.

Resident since 2001.

Raymond KIRBY.




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