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envisaged Industrial development in the area at one time however Community Use, Openspace and
Residential development that has been approved in the area since 2004 when the Noosa Plan was
prepared makes it an incompatible use of the land due to community amenity, health and safety
concerns.

The subject Property is currently located in an Industry Zone. It contains no infrastructure of an
industrial nature and is not adjoined by other Industry Zoned property. It (Fig. 1) is bounded on two
sides by Eumundi-Noosa Road and Walter Hay Drive.
The land which immediately adjoins the Property is
zoned Community Uses, occupied by the School to
the east and an electrical substation to the north.
Immediately adjoining the school as you progress
along Walter Hay Drive is an oval used for sporting
and recreational purposes (zoned Open Space
Recreational) and a retirement village (zoned
Residential Use).

The Noosa Plan is now almost twelve years old and well past the recognised use-by-date for such an
instrument. A reasonable assessment of the site as it currently stands would indicate that it is
incorrectly zoned based on the way the site, and the surrounding neighbourhood, has evolved over the
years.

As a matter of legacy rather than intent the remainder of the former Noosa Shire Council Depot, being
the subject Lot 30 on SP 170751 (the Property), continued to be zoned “Industry”. The Church
purchased the Property from Noosa Shire Council on 20 December 2007. The Property shares a common
boundary with the School Health and Physical Education Centre and Childrens’ Swimming Pool,

It is a matter of public record8 that in 2007 the Church was concerned about the possible development
of the site. The School stated at the time that a prospective developer “…could establish a service
station on the site.. We are somewhat alarmed by the prospect of fuel storage tanks and fuel vapours
being so close”.9

There is further contention10 that there was a verbal agreement at the time of the purchase in 2007
between the Church and Noosa Shire Council that the Property “…would not be made available to other
commercial enterprises” 11 and that the Property would provide a buffer zone between the School
Community Services Zone and the nearby Industry Zone. The alleged verbal agreement struck between
the Noosa Shire Council and the Church “…never envisaged that [the] land would be made available for
a service station”.12 The veracity of this agreement is consistent with the demonstrated cooperation
between the Church and the Noosa Shire Council in the School’s development over many years13. It


8
  https://www.gslc.qld.edu.au/news.aspx?article=99
9
  ibid
10
   Counsellor Frank Pardon quoted in Gardner P, Noosa News, 9 December 2015
11
   ibid
12
   ibid
13
   ibid


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