DUPLICATE PM Submission - Peter Fullagar - 1320008.176.05

Subject: FW: Please don't throw Grant Street under a bus
From: Antoinette Becker
Date: 2023-08-17T01:12:43+00:00
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submission

From: Frank Wilkie <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, 16 August 2023 5:30 PM
To: NC DR Development Assessment <[email protected]>
Subject: FW: Please don't throw Grant Street under a bus


Please find attached a submission on the Serenity Close hotel application


From: Peter Fullagar <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>
Reply to: Peter Fullagar <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>
Date: Wednesday, 16 August 2023 at 10:16 am
To: Frank Wilkie <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>
Subject: Please don't throw Grant Street under a bus

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Re development application for 195 room, 360 car space resort hotel with 744m2 for shops

3 & 7 Serenity Close, Noosa Heads


Dear Councillor Wilkie,

As a resident and property owner, living on Grant Street, I wish to voice my strong objections to the development application 132008.176.05 for a major hotel + shops on Serenity Close.

Mayor Stewart recently voiced her concerns about “huge development pressures which threaten to overwhelm our infrastructure, such as roads and services, and threaten the very way of life and natural environment that make Noosa different by nature” (Noosatoday, 4/8/2023).  The development application for Serenity Close poses precisely these threats to our neighbourhood and should be rejected.

1. A 195 room resort hotel with shops would transform our quiet residential area into a commercial precinct.
Grant Street is a quiet residential street; I want to keep it that way. The proposed major hotel + shops development would not only entail destruction of habitat for koalas and other native wildlife, but would also permanently degrade livability in our neighbourhood.

The noise and dust and disruption to which local residents would be subjected during the construction years would be bad enough. But after the construction phase Grant Street would become a commercial artery. Hundreds of hotel guests would access the hotel via our street every day – 7 days per week. In addition there would be vehicular and foot traffic to and from the shops, bars, and restaurants both day and night. On top of that would be dozens of vehicles transporting hotel and retail staff and servicing the hotel and the shops. The peaceful, laid-back character of our area would be lost, for good.

2.  The sewerage system is inadequate for a major hotel + shops.
Local residents have been subjected to unpleasant odours from the Banksia Street sewerage pumping station several times over the past few years. Unity Water has undertaken major works there on two occasions recently. The sewerage system is currently operating at its limit, and could not cope with hundreds of additional people at a major new resort.

3.  A major hotel + shops development would compromise our safety
The introduction of hundreds of extra people into the area at a major new resort would impose greater demands on emergency services. Average response times would increase, by virtue of the larger population and the heavier traffic on local roads. The resort traffic would enter and leave Grant Street via Noosa Drive, aggravating the congestion at Noosa Junction as well.

Of greatest concern to me is the heightened risk posed by fires, especially bush fires. A Serenity Close resort would concentrate hundreds of extra people and cars into an area adjacent to bush. In the event of a bushfire the result could be catastrophic, with traffic congestion not only delaying and constraining the fire brigade but also preventing people from leaving the area. To allow a major resort development on Serenity Close would be irresponsible for safety reasons.



Thankyou for addressing my concerns.



Yours sincerely,

Peter Fullagar
25 Grant Street, Noosa Heads, QLD 4567

[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>



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Peter Fullagar

[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
mobile: (044) 751 1015

25 Grant Street
Noosa Heads
Queensland 4567,  Australia