Properly Made Submission (Object- No. 6) Nick & Jeanne Read - MCU12/0216

Subject: deb BCs 1309 DEVELOPMENT APPLICATION MCU12/0216 - ATTENTION ASSESSMENT MANAGER
From: Nick&Jeanne Read
Date: 2013-05-02T21:20:04+00:00
To: Internet Mailbox Sunshine Coast Regional Council

Dear Sir/Madam,

 

Whilst I am not a resident of Lake McDonald, I have for over 20 years owned a property there, which I visit whenever possible.

 

I have read with some alarm the proposal to remove 900,000 tonnes of clay from the former brickworks site and use it for fill elsewhere.

 

What I have been able to garner from the Council site is not very detailed so if there is a way for me to get more detail, such as planned site rectification after removal of the clay, I would appreciate being directed to it.

 

Environmental damage and future use of the site aside for the moment, the sheer volume of traffic each day during the proposed two years of this ‘development’ appears to pose significant danger on what is a very narrow road, with no safe way for overtaking and increasing use by residents and visitors using both motor vehicles and bicycles.  If the information I have received is accurate, traffic could be 100 trucks per day (or 200 trips, 100 in each direction) six days per week, that is one truck in one direction or the other, past any given point every 2.4 minutes in an eight hour working day.

 

Whilst I do not know the destination of the clay, I consider that the dangers and potential road damage imposed by this traffic is not justifiable.  I am not aware who is responsible for the roads but if DTMR has any responsibility, I would wonder at their approval not being required.

 

I would also question what arrangements are in place to ensure that the developers make good the inevitable significant road damage which will result from the heavy vehicular traffic over this period, particularly during wet weather.  Council and its ratepayers cannot be financially responsible for rectification.

 

Back to the matter of site remediation.  I have no real idea what cubic quantity equates to a tonne of clay but assuming that it were one cubic metre, 900,000 tonnes of clay would equate to a hole 1,000 metres by 100 metres by 9 metres deep.  The remediation proposal for that hole interests me greatly and I look forward to reading the details.

 

Regards,

 

Nick Read

7 Querrin St

Yeronga