NOOSA PLAN 2020 PROPOSED AMENDMENT NO. 2 - POST PUBLIC NOTIFICATION FOR FINAL STATE GOVERNMENT MINISTERIAL APPROVAL · Attachment 1 Table of submissions

 Your Say    ECM         Submitter comments                                                                                                Response                                                                                                      Recommendation
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                         • Loss of privacy - overlooking directly into my front yard and front windows (where both my children
                           sleep) from up on the hill across the road.
                         • The development on Lake McDonald Drive has street lights 4m from existing residents back yards
                         • Families who work so hard to live and play in Noosa will leave this area if these amendments go through
                           because the cascading effects will be detrimental to our residential amenity.
                         • We purchased our property on Dianella court and was told our only new neighbours would be those
                           from an expanding cemetery. We envisioned a green, peaceful home, with pine trees in front of us, a
                           creek behind us and a street in which I could safely monitor my children as they grew older. Your
                           development will have a completely negative impact on all those things.
                         • I and my family live in Swift Dr . where you are intending to put the housing in Cooroy. I'm sure that
                           there will be a better location to put the so called cheap housing. Our area is full of people that have
                           worked hard and bought into this area thinking that it is developed as far as its going to be even when
                           we bought our house we were told that it was an easement and would never be built on. Being in the
                           valley we hear the noise from the houses in the Dianella Ct but the noise that these units will create will
                           be unbearable for us as I'm in bed most days suffering from migraines. I sure that the council owns
                           more suitable land that allows for plenty of parking and still leaves enough room for parks so the families
                           can enjoy the so called low income housing. Hope the council comes to its senses and find a more
                           suitable location for these housing crisis shenanigans and actually fix the problem.
                         Vegetation / Habitat / Slope stability                                                                            The site contains plantation pine trees and a small stand of plantation hardwood planted since the 1970’s
                         • Find an already cleared land to build your houses.                                                              The pine are not native species nor are they food trees for wildlife. The hard wood trees are in mostly
                                                                                                                                           poor condition as a result of lightning strike some years ago and were specifically planted for harvesting.
                         • This land is a wildlife corridor for many animals including Kangaroos, Echidna's, Possums both brush            It is acknowledged that some fauna would utilise the site, however, plantation timber such as the existing
                           tail and ring tail, a variety of Snakes, Black Cockatoo, Kookaburra, and I hear Koalas mating calls at          trees can be harvested. The understory of the pine is mostly weed species and mostly grassed area
                           night.                                                                                                          beneath the hardwood.
                         • The destruction of the natural environment will lead to the displacement and probable death of all the          The native species are individual trees in or near the gully and to the north western perimeter of the site
                           native animals                                                                                                  and do not provide any significant habitat for fauna.
                         • To take this passage of land away will be destructive to this animal population who transverse this             Even if the land were used for an expansion of the cemetery as originally purchased for, these trees would
                           corridor daily.                                                                                                 be harvested.
                         • It needs to be kept as green space for wildlife                                                                 The land has never been zoned for open space or for passive outdoor recreation.
                         • It is full of mature native trees. As far as the trees go other than the Pines, there’s 43 mature Gympie        While the site slopes it has not been mapped for landslip potential. There is no reason to assume landslip
                           Messmates, 1 Bunya Pine, 1 Casaurina, 4 Swamp Box and 12 Acacias. All native and all endemic to                 would occur.
                           this area. This corridor needs to be retained for both flora and fauna to remain in town and part of the        The matter of hydrology is discussed separately.
                           town plan and in our beautiful community.
                         • I like going in greenspace and getting visual peace and having somewhere near where I live to unwind.
                         • In an area that lauds itself as a biosphere and all about conservation, wildlife habitat and natural
                           environment, it is facetious to cut down a stand of mature trees in a wildlife corridor (as per land adjacent
                           to the Cooroy cemetery). Leave existing mature trees and wildlife habitat alone.
                         • Completely removing all the pine trees will cause a number of different issues. The slope of the land
                           you are planning on building stages 2&3 on plus a road surely must be at risk of sliding down towards
                           Dianella court once all the tree roots have been removed/ decomposed. I would like to see a report
                           done on this as this will affect my house substantially and will possibly have a financial penalty for
                           myself when purchasing insurance.
                         • These trees are allowing a slower filtration of rainwater into street storm water drains, given that my
                           house shares a boundary with an overflow creek that resembles a fast flowing river during heavy rain
                           events, what steps have you followed to ensure that the current floodways are built to sustain an
                           additional 150-170 roofs in area currently only servicing 28 roofs?.




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Table of Submissions made regarding Noosa Plan 2020 Proposed Amendment No. 2, 2024