MCU15/0095 & REC15/0022 PM Submission Object - Petition

envisaged Industrial development        in the area at one time however Community          Use, Opens pace 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 record" that in 2007 the Church was concerned about the possible development
of the site. The Schooi 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 vapaurs
being so close#.9

There is further contention!O 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"u and that the Property would provide a buffer zone between the Schooi
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 mode available for
a service station"." 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 years".      It



" https:/ /www.gslc.qld.edu.au/news.aspx 7article=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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