Not properly made submission (late) Michela D'Addario & Andrej Kadacik MCU12/0184

Please treat residents doing good with due respect, and consider our needs too.


SUMMARY OF OUR CONCERNS:


  1.    The Proposal to change of material use on farm from low impact rural use to
        intensive broiler chicken farming.
 2.     The request to level ridge tops to construct 8 x 100 metre x 16 metre sheds
        housing 35,000 broiler chickens for a 6 week growing cycle, rearing 1.5 million
        birds annually.
 3.     The establishment of 40 x 50,000 litre water tanks
 4.     Approximately 4-5 semi trailers (including 19 mtre B doubles) per day and other
        associated vehicles travelling on small sealed and unsealed country roads posing
        significant dangers and destruction.
  5.    Birds being secured in the sheds with no access to the outdoors to the end of their
        life.
 6.     BlackFellows creek and its fragile environment and wildlife, such as the endangered
        platypus, bearing the brunt of polluted poisonous runoff that will be created
        particularly during peak rainfall times.
 7.     The proposal being completely out of scale with the area and the associated
        burdens it will create for Ridgewood.
 8.     The associated Noise, Odour, Visual and environmental-water pollution that will be
        generated by this proposal.
 9.     The venture is likely to involve fertiliser production and sale yet this is not
        acknowledged in the proposal. Fertiliser Production is not aligned with existing land
        use in the area.
  10. The Proposal is in conflict with existing plans, including the SEQ Regional Plan
        2009-2031
  11.   Poultry operations are typically 24-hour operations light pollution and ventilation
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      noise from the sheds will disturb residents for many kilometres.
  12. Increased virulence in pathogens, especially in high-intensity poultry farming,
      causes health issues that can have impacts on a global scale. (HSN1,Bird flu). This

      development does not address in any way the impact on the local community of an
      outbreak of such diseases and no disaster management plan is in place.
  13. This proposal is clearly not a win-win. It is a win-lose.
  14. Threat to businesses in the area that support and rely on principles of sustainability
      environmental care and environmental beauty.
  15. Threat to value of properties whose appeal is reliant on the natural beauty and
      sustainability of Ridgewood.
  16. The needs of the majority of residents in Ridgewood who are committed to the
      initiatives of Council environmental care are being overlooked and disregarded.
  17. The very quality of lifestyle is at risk for surrounding Ridgewood residents.


In Conclusion
We do not consider the proposal of the applicant to be in keeping with the spirit and
practice of the majority of Ridgewood residents, or with council planning and so we urge
council to uphold the existing low impact status of the applicant’s property, in line with
surrounding properties in Ridgewood, rejecting the proposal in it’s entirety.
/JP.~/;J
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~~Andrej~aCik
Michela D’Addario and
Residents of Ridgewood
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