Draft Submission to Sunshine Coast Council further ideas · MCU13/0092

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       will adversely affect the safety of this car park for the elderly, parents with young children
       and users as a whole. Therefore the PBCH Management Committee is not in favour of
       this car park being turned into an access road for the development.

3. PBCH Management Committee believes the development will result in loss of accessible
   car parking for users of PBCH. PBCH Management Committee believes shortage of
   accessible car parking will decrease the number of groups willing to hire space thereby
   reducing revenue. We believe that 100% of our users will be adversely affected by this
   situation. If PBCH users are forced to park further away from the facility PBCH will forfeit
   potential revenue.

        Accessible car parking for the elderly, mothers with young children and people with a
         disability ensures PBCH is a venue that all members of the community can easily utilise.
         Some examples of users affected by this are; i) A charity knitting group as many of
         these member are elderly, ii) Kindermusik which is aimed at parents with young children
         up to the age of 6. These users rely on there being a safe and close parking to access
         the venue.

        75% of PBCH weekly users bring equipment for their sessions. Without close access it
         becomes unfeasible for users to continue to use the facility. Examples of our users
         which bring in equipment are Yoga, Pilates, weekend and speciality workshops as well
         as KinderMusik which can brings in 3 full loads of equipment before the commencement
         of their weekly class which then requires reloading at the end of the session. Also
         classes such as Yoga and Pilates bring their own equipment as well as many of the
         speciality and one-off users and often the weekend workshop users require equipment
         as well.

        The PBCH Management Committee has already received feedback from weekend
         users about the issue with themselves and their participants unable to find car parking
         spaces when it is combined with a market Sunday. We feel this development will only
         increase this issue.

   4. PBCH believes the increased noise associated daily operations of the proposed
      development will impact on the viability of hire spaces within the building for activities
      requiring peaceful surrounds. The PBCH Management Committee believes this noise
      will be in the form of increased traffic on all surrounding roads, a huge increase in the
      number trucks for delivery and service requirements (eg garbage trucks) and general
      noise associated by having such a large number of people in such close distance from
      the PBCH. We have calculated that currently this noise would adversely affect 50% of
      our weekly users.

The Management Committee of PBCH wishes to make it clear that it is not in favour or
disapproves this development, however if the Sunshine Coast Regional Council approves this
development we kindly ask that all of our concerns will be addressed with the development to
secure the viability of the PBCH for all of our members, users and the community as a whole.




Jan Romanowski
Secretary
On behalf of the Peregian Beach Community House Management Committee



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