2022-12-12 General Committee Meeting Agenda

GENERAL COMMITTEE MEETING AGENDA                                                      12 DECEMBER 2022



The noise and lights from the applicant’s vehicle       Council’s Development Compliance Officer and
continues to wake us up weekly, followed by             Environmental Health Coordinator have investigated
continual banging, scrapping and items being shifted    all complaints received and concluded that the
in the middle of the night.                             business is operating in compliance with all
                                                        development    approval    conditions   and     no
                                                        environmental nuisance was occurring under the
                                                        Environmental Protection Act 1994.

The applicant is not only selling venison but skin,     The approval does not limit the parts of the deer that
horns, and heads which was not approved by              may be sold.
Council.

The business is more appropriately placed in the        The approval of small scale businesses to operate
Noosaville industrial/commercial estate and not from    from home support the establishment of start of
a home address.                                         businesses to operate and as they grow and expand
                                                        will be required to move to industrial/commercial
                                                        estate to operate.

An abattoir should not be located near residents.       The deer are not slaughtered on site, as would occur
                                                        with an abattoir, instead being harvested in the field.
                                                        The carcasses are then processed within an existing
                                                        hermetically sealed shed at the resident’s premises.

The operator has expanded the operations rather         The residents have not advised in their submission
than limiting them as per the conditional approval.     how the operations have expanded and no
                                                        extensions to the existing facility have occurred.

At times a persistent whining like noise can be heard   Inspection by Council officers and Councillors at the
like an annoying mosquito during the day when he is     time of the approval of the application clearly
processing.                                             demonstrated that noise from the equipment could
                                                        not be heard immediately outside the shed.
                                                        An inspection of the premises in December 2022
                                                        with the bandsaw operating internally with the doors
                                                        closed, did not reveal any noise external of the
                                                        hermetically sealed facility. It is noted the bandsaw
                                                        is only used when cutting bones, which is minor
                                                        component of the processing.




                   Figure 3 – Properties objecting – yellow dots (subject property in red)


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