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

wellbeing.      It is not compatible         with    surrounding     uses in terms   of amenity,       the environment           or
economics.


There is no economic need for a convenience                 shop or indeed for a service station in the location. The
area is well serviced given the proximity              to Noosa Civic and other adjoining retail facilities. The recent
approval of a convenience           shop and service station nearby at 139 Eumundi-Noosa               Road provides for an
additional     retail outlet a few hundred meters from the Property. Further addition of retail facilities is not
needed, and certainly not in such close proximity             to the sensitive School area.


The Applicant       has not demonstrated            a need for the inconsistent      use within       the subject zone. The
Applicant     provides no grounds that would justify the granting of an exception and indeed in this specific
case there are no grounds on which approval of                     this type of Development     on the Property could be
justified    by the Assessment Manager and/or Council's elected representatives.                  Furthermore,         in conflict
with   Division 17 of the Noosoville            Locolity Pion, the New Use is located          and designed whereby              its
operation will cause significant adverse impact on the School.


A development        may be said to be needed if, on balance, it improves community                    wellbeing.      Wellbeing
may be improved           by access to new services or facilities or a range of other ways. However, any new
uses must be compatible           with surrounding       uses in terms of amenity, the environment            and economics.
Furthermore      in assessing the public interest the Assessment manager may give weight to the negative
impacts of a proposed Development               on the community       and neighbourhood.


The Applicant provides no substantive data or justification               based on community      need or anything else to
substantiate     why the School's children            should be exposed to inappropriate          and significant         adverse
impacts on, and compromises                to, the amenity they should be allowed to enjoy unhindered                    by retail
intrusion    into the school environment.           The applicant indicates the service station and the convenience
shop would operate 24 hours, given that it is primarily proximate,               not to other industrial uses, but to the
School and nearby            residential    use this raises real concerns       for parents,     children     and the entire
surrounding      neighbourhood.


Furthermore      the proposed Shop has not been objectively               demonstrated      by any credible analysis to be
ancillary to the service station. The Application           is deliberately   misleading in attempting        to minimise the
true area allocated to retail floor space and hence to hide the fact that the Shop is a significant part of
the    Development         and   supporting     business    model.     The Applicant     acknowledges         that     the   Shop
component       is in total 197m', the majority,          if not all of which is available for retail use, and not the
100m' mentioned           by the Applicant, an assertion simply designed to play down and hide the true nature
of this venture as a retail development.             Industry data shows that a service station without              a significant
retail component      is an unviable business model. The retail component              is therefore    not ancillary     to, but a
major component           of the proposed      Development.        It has as an target market, not the servicing of the
refuelling    motorist,      but the children       of the School who will be attracted         to the facility.       This is an
unacceptable      intrusion into, and interference        with, the amenity of the School.


The Applicant has not subjected the proposal to an economic needs and impact assessment of even the
most    rudimentary        kind. The need for a development               is commonly       recognised      to be related        to
community       wellbeing.     A development        may be said to be needed if, on balance, it improves community



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