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

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     monitor.     Students enjoy some freedom of movement                         in their designated recess areas. School staff
     already has a high level of responsibility overseeing students during these times.


     The school swimming pools have changing areas that are exposed and easily accessed by unwanted
     members of the public, posing a threat to the safety of children who have, to date enjoyed a peaceful,
     safe space to shower, change and relax before or after swimming classes. The changing areas serving
     the school swimming pools and Health and Physical Education Centre remain open from S am to 7 pm
     open so that children can make use of these facilities. They are within very close proximity to the pools
     and sports complex. These are extremely                    high-risk areas in terms of vulnerability                     and exposure as
     children are showering, changing and naturally focused on their sports activities.


     It is unthinkable to put children at risk of being interfered with, abused or abducted because of the close
     proximity of the service station and the threats posed to their privacy and entitlement                                     to safe, secure
     facilities. The changing facilities and showers are currently unsupervised as well as unlocked. The safety
     issue would warrant these spaces to be policed at all times throughout                             the day - from 5 am to 5.30 pm
     daily. The toilet facilities for students and staff of GSlC remain open during the day for use as required.
     Unwanted trespassers from the proposed service station could easily access these essential facilities,
     which makes our children and school staff easy targets and unnecessarily vulnerable to aberrant abuses,
     attacks and criminal activity.


     Temptation       for children to duck out of school and purchase food and drink, to play truant and to
     innocently     and unwittingly      expose themselves to the raft of dangers as mentioned                                above, posed by
     accessibility to a retail outlet and random members of the public frequenting the service station.


     Queensland is far from immune to the Australia wide drug supply and trafficking                                     problem. Such close
     proximity of a service station, with open public access could make our children an easy target for drug
     supply and trafficking.


     The service station is not wanted near our students who would be made vulnerable by easy access. This
     issue can be avoided by rejecting the proposal for the service station in such close proximity                                       to the
     school.


     Children and GSlC teachers will be exposed to the increased risk of fire, which can be triggered as easily
     as by dropping a mobile phone. Shell Australia Health and Safety documentation                                          says: "Dropping   a
     mobile phone or switching it on or off can cause sparks, which may ignite petrol va pours" .


     Unlawful behaviour is all too frequent around service stations. November 2014 just down the road in
     Eumundi,' Noosa gunman stole a Channel 7 television news car at gunpoint and crashed it into a large
     gas tank at Eumundi Petrol Station.


     Clearly a site within such close proximity to the Good Shepherd lutheran                                 College is unsuitable for the
     proposed development where children may be exposed to violence, terror and recalcitrant choices from



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