MCU15/0095 & REC15/0022 PM Submissions Object - Petition

     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 Heaith 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 developer "...cou/d establish a service
statian on the site.. We are somewhat alarmed by the prospect of fuel storage tanks and fuel vopours
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being 50 close          II.




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"n 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 Ethel land wauld be made availablefor
a service station".12 The veracity of this agreement is consistent with the demonstrated                                            cooperation
between           the Church and the Noosa Shire Council in the School's development                                  over many years".         It



8    https://www.gslc.qld.edu.au/news.aspx?article=99
9    ibid
10 CounsellorFrank Pardon quoted in Gardner P, NoosaNews, 9 December 2015
11 ibid
12 ibid

13 ibid




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