MCU15/0095 & REC15/0022 PM Submission Object - Jenelle Wilson

The Noosa Plan and associated                  planning scheme is due for review and does not reflect the current
circumstances              in neighbourhood         of the proposed          Development.    The planning          scheme may have
envisaged Industrial            development         in the area at one time however           Community          Use, Openspace 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 School stated at the time that a prospective                could establish a service
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station on the site .. We are somewhat alarmed by the prospect of fuel storage tanks and fuel vapaurs
being so c1ase 9      N
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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"" and that the Property would provide a buffer zone between the School
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 made available for
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a service station"." The veracity of this agreement is consistent with the demonstrated cooperation


8 https:/ /www.gslc.qld.edu.au/news.as           px7article=99
9 ibid

'0 Counsellor Frank Pardon quoted in Gardner P, Noosa News, 9 December 2015
11 ibid

12 ibid




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