GSLC development application objection (2) (1)

                                                  practice demands that service station facilities be set
                                                  back a far greater distance from the School.

  2. The nearest structure on the school          The relevance of this statement is unclear and if
     boundary is the pump house for the           anything demonstrates the proximity of the proposed
     school pool                                  service station to the School pool facilities used by
                                                  toddlers and young children.

  3. The proposed service station is              Visual distinction is the least of the concerns that are
     orientated away from the school and          associated with the location of a service station
     towards the Eumundi- Noosa Road              adjacent to, indeed adjoining, a School and its
     frontage, providing visual distinction       associated health and physical education facilities.
     between both sites.

  4. The service station refuelling area is       The Applicant provides no justification for its
     sufficiently distanced from the school       assertion that the Development “is sufficiently
     boundary which is greater than 25m.          distanced from the school boundary which is greater
                                                  than 25m.”

                                                  In the contrary we have demonstrated elsewhere in
                                                  this document that international and Australian best
                                                  practice demands that service station facilities be set
                                                  back a far greater distance from the School.

  5. All vehicle access relating to the service   The relevance of this statement is once again unclear.
     station and future proposed Lot 2            The access being off Eumundi-Noosa Road, which is
     development is obtained via Eumundi-         the same as the access to the School and only a short
     Noosa Road which is more than suitably       distance away creates the potential for increased
     distanced from the school access off         traffic queuing and obstruction along the short
     Walter Hay Drive.                            stretch of road between the two entrances.

  6. A dedicated pedestrian pathway from          Again the relevance of this statement is unclear. The
     Walter Hay Drive is proposed. This           pathway provides no additional protection for the
     pathway connects Walter Hay Drive            School children. Indeed it provides further unwanted
     directly to the site and the store           opportunity for children to access the shop, which is
     building, thus reducing any potential        undoubtedly the main purpose of the development,
     conflict between pedestrians and             that is to encourage the school children to purchase
     vehicles.                                    from the shop and increase the profits to the owner
                                                  at the expense of - and threat to - the School
                                                  children.


The Applicant has also failed to respond seriously and comprehensively to Council’s request for further
information regarding the Airborne Hazards in proximity to the School identified by Council as an area of
critical importance to the Development application:


  Applicant’s Response           Objectors’ Response
  1. Benzene as an active        The Applicant provides mere idle assertion in the face of the evidence


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