MCU15/0095 Additional Further Information request JAN 16 · REC15/0022

                                     Officer             :Denis Wallace
                                     Direct Telephone:    07 53296239
                                     Our Reference       :MCU15/0095
                                     Your Reference      :1519315193
13 January 2015


Synergy Property Partners
C/- TFA Group
PO Box 301
ALBION QLD 4010

Attn: Hayley Edmunds

Dear Hayley

  MCU15/0095 Request for Additional Information – Air Quality Assessment

I refer to your development application and our recent telephone discussion. Council
officers have been progressing the assessment of the application and become aware of
new material that requires further information to demonstrate the development can operate
without causing unacceptable impacts on the adjacent existing uses.

As you are aware, there have been a significant number of public submissions objecting to
the proposed service station neighbouring the existing Good Shepherd Lutheran College.
The submissions highlight the nearest receiver point to the petrol station is a 14m toddler
swimming pool within the building immediately to the southeast, estimated to be around
30m from the proposed fuel bowsers. Council officers were previously unaware of this
extremely sensitive adjacent use. In addition, the school’s open air swimming pool and
gymnasium are located approximately 40m from the proposed bowsers.

Review of available guidelines and studies relating to buffer distances to service stations
suggests a minimum buffer requirement of 50m, increasing for more sensitive receivers and
higher fuel throughput. Whilst The Noosa Plan does not prescribe specific buffers to a
service station, it does require new uses protect the amenity, air quality and health of
existing uses.

The Brisbane City Plan 2014 provides the most relevant planning criteria that might
reasonably be applied to the assessment. You are requested to provide a suitably detailed
and robust assessment of the development against the Performance Outcome 7 of the
Brisbane City Plan 2014 Service Station Code, including an air quality impact report
prepared in accordance with the Plan’s Air Quality Planning Scheme Policy. The
assessment must demonstrate the development meets best practice for air quality and
emissions for a site in proximity to an extremely sensitive receiver and that a precautionary
approach to ovoid the service station use should not otherwise prevail. If necessary, the
assessment should identify additional means and measures to achieve best practice.

Council requests this information to allow it to finalise its assessment. Should you not wish
to provide the information please advise as soon as possible.




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