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Notice of Submission
Attached to the e-mail MCU14/0106 Submission PM Object - Paul Fleming.
Notice of Submission under the Sustainable
Planning Act 2009
2015/16
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5. state what aspects of the plan or proposed development your support or oppose and why
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1. Application details
File No MCU 14/0106
Postal address of Land (as advertised) 28 Eenie Creek Rd, Noosaville.
Nature of Proposed Development Noosa Civic Expansion
2. Submitter details
Full name of Submitter Paul Fleming 3 Lanyana Way Noosa Junction.
Email Address [email protected]
Postal address PO Box 887
Suburb Noosa Heads State Qld Postcode 4567
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N.B. This form has been designed for the convenience of the public, and any persons wishing to lodge a submission are not obliged to use this form.
3. Details of Submission
I (We), make the following submission:
Reduce escape expenditure:
The widely published benefit to the Noosa community of expanding Noosa Civic was to reduce the amount of money from
Noosa being spent outside of the shire.
If the proposed major tenants are Coles, Aldi and Target who are already in Noosa, this will obviously do nothing to
reduce expenditure. Expenditure will be diverted to Noosa Civic from within Noosa.
The majority of Noosa residents are more than satisfied with the available goods and services within Noosa for their day
to day needs.
The businesses that people do leave Noosa to patronise are for the less frequent shopping trips such as Myer, and
Brisbane for the DFO centre and general theatre, music, sporting events and other city calibre entertainment that will
rarely be offered in a regional centre such as the Sunshine Coast. Noosa residents will still leave to patronise these
stores and events whether the Noosa Civic expansion happens or not.
I oppose the duplication of Coles, Aldi and Target, (or relocation of Target) as it will not benefit the Noosa Community.
Additional 70 shops.
A very high percentage of an additional 70 shops would be national brands owned by interests outside of Noosa, with
profits leaving Noosa.
The Noosa market is far too small to absorb 70 additional shops without causing major hardship for Noosa’s existing
small business owners.
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An essential part of what is unique about Noosa is the high percentage of interesting, unique, privately owned businesses
in the various villages of Noosa. It is the Noosa Shire villages, and the businesses in them that are one of the unique
features of Noosa. It will be the owners of those shops, their staff and customers, and the villages as a whole that will
suffer if an additional 70 shops suddenly open in this small market.
To give an idea of the scale of the problem, an additional 70 national brand retailers would require sales of approximately
$70million per year to survive. Well over a $1million/week of sales removed from the current economy would have a
devastating effect on the Noosa villages. Noosa Junction, Noosaville, Tewantin, Gympie Terrace, Sunshine Beach,
Peregian would all be permanently effected. Those villages have slowly evolved over decades and it would take decades
again, if ever for people to have the confidence to reopen stores again, as once the stores close, the customers will shop
visiting the villages.
I oppose allowing an additional 70 shops at Noosa Civic as it would have a permanent, devastating effect on the Noosa
economy and permanently change an important part of what is unique about Noosa.
Preferred components of an expansion of Noosa Civic.
An earlier proposed expansion of Noosa Civic included a new Myer store and was based on not opening until Noosa’s
population reached an agreed level that Council thought could justify the additional shops.
This would be far beneficial to the Noosa Community reducing the need to go south to visit Myer, and not being
completed until the population justified the additional shops would lessen the impact on Noosa’s existing retail economy.
I oppose the expansion of Noosa Civic because it doesn’t include Myer and the opening is tied into the population
reaching a level that would justify the additional specialty stores.
State owned corporation jeopardising the local community.
This is probably not relevant as far as the criteria for Council’s decision goes but I find it unfair that Noosa’s economy and
lifestyle is being threatened by a state owned corporation.
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