2014-03-25 Planning & Organisation Committee Agenda Pages 15-38

PLANNING & ORGANISATION COMMITTEE MEETING AGENDA                                 25 MARCH 2014


Planning & Development

2.   KIN KIN QUARRY BACKGROUND

Author           Coordinator, Development Assessment, Kerri Coyle
                 Community and Development

Index            ECM/ Application / 51987.2970 (TPC 1899)

Attachments      1.    Locality Plan
                 2.    Town Planning Consent
                 3.    Local Government Court Order 1988
                 4.    Extension to Term of Approval 2003
                 5.    Approved Site Layout – Management Plan 2013



EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

The Kin Kin Quarry has a lengthy history and this report is intended to provide a brief summary to
Council of this history and the issues surrounding the quarry. The quarry’s history includes an old
planning approval issued in 1988, a change in lessee, an extension to the term of approval in
2003, the challenge made by the Kin Kin Community Group to the Planning and Environment
Court in 2010, and the less than satisfactory management of stormwater on site that gave rise to
the Department of Environment and Resource Management issuing an Environmental Protection
Order early 2011. The Management Plan for the quarry was also amended by Neilsens and
approved in part by Sunshine Coast Council for the initial development quarry phase in 2013.

The potential impacts of the quarry operations continue to raise numerous concerns from the Kin
Kin community, most notably over the scale of the quarry, the uncontrolled stormwater releases
and the impacts along the haul route.

It is the Kin Kin community’s minimum expectation that the quarry’s operations will be properly
monitored and the current approvals enforced. In this regard, officers from the Department of
Environment & Heritage Protection have agreed that they are the administering authority for the
quarry in respect to potential environmental impacts. However, Council also has an ongoing role
in monitoring the quarry operation’s compliance with the Management Plan, particularly the
impact of trucks travelling to and from the quarry on Sheppersons Lane. The Department of
Transport and Main Roads also has an interest in the quarry, given the haul route extends along
Kin Kin Pomona Road, which is a state controlled road.

RECOMMENDATION

That Council note the report by Coordinator, Development Assessment to the Planning &
Organisation Committee dated 25 March 2014 on the Kin Kin Quarry background and:
A.   Note that Council officers will actively monitor the quarry operations to ensure the
     conditions of the development approval are met, noting that the Department of
     Environment and Heritage Protection are the administering authority for environmental
     matters;
B.   Write to the Department of Environment and Heritage Protection and seek their
     confirmation that the Department’s officers will actively monitor the quarry’s operations for
     compliance with the conditions of the Environmentally Relevant Activity Permit;




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