Submission letter of OBJECTION for the Use of Open Space Recreational Land for a Shopping Comple-Peregian Beach Sports & Recreation Club Inc. · MCU13/0092

PLANNING – OPEN SPACE NETWORK

   1. The applicant has not provided sufficient evidence & justification
       that the Open Space Recreation zoned land is not required for
       current & future open space recreation/community uses.

   •   If the Bowls Club site is lost to a supermarket, there is no
       alternative public or private land available to replace it for
       recreation.

The applicant has made no formal contact with the Peregian Beach
community nor Peregian Beach Sports & Recreation Club since
acquiring the property under contract to find & understand the local
community & business support and needs for recreational use on this
land.
It should be noted that letters from many of the community stakeholder
groups were sent to the proposed developer & the Sunshine Coast
Council Planning department about NOT supporting commercial
development on this land in July 2012 prior to them entering a contract
with the landholder.
We had hoped the applicant would understand there is a greater future
need for recreational facilities in our community than the convenience of
yet another shopping center and develop their proposal to suit.

Peregian Beach Sports & Recreation Club records show in 2012 it had
received approximately twenty-five letters of support from
Peregian/Coolum community groups and stakeholders, held meetings
with the community to provide regular feedback, secured commitments
from four different potential shared lessees of the site (without
compromising the community house), ensured the site was identified in
the SCRC Regional Sport & Recreation Strategy and kept the hopes
of bowlers alive that maybe from this process of protecting the site they
may have a chance to play their game locally again (albeit in a different
framework).
Jeff Bampton of The Sandpit Beach Volleyball, was and is still
interested to work with the Sports Club as a co-tenant of the facility.



   •   The Sunshine Coast Council Open Space Strategy 2011
       identifies that “Peregian Beach locality area is generally under
       provided for with recreational parks”(2011:35) and we object to
       loss of this recreational land for the current and future residents of
       Peregian Beach and wider catchment.