Properly Made submission (object) Janet & Andrew von Berky - MCU13/0092

Subject: tt bcs 1192 MCU13/0092 Submission Janet and Andrew von Berky
From: Janet von Berky
Date: 2013-08-30T01:06:01+00:00
To: Internet Mailbox Sunshine Coast Regional Council

File No: MCU13/0092
Name of applicant: Multispan Australia
Postal address of land: 5-7 Rufous St, Peregian Beach <x-apple-data-detectors://2> 
Proposal: Integrated shopping complex development

We wish to make a submission on the referenced development application, as follows:


There are so many reasons this a bad idea (e.g. commercial use of land zoned for recreational/open space, loss of community car park space, increased traffic flow on roads not designed for this). 
However, we feel the most important issue is this:
Peregian has magnificent, irreplaceable beaches and adjacent areas, and has managed to keep the rare advantage of an open, uncontested "local community" atmosphere alongside these beautiful beaches. 
Once you start to remove this open space, and fill it with heavily-trafficked commercial enterprises such as a shopping centre that isn't actually necessary, you open the floodgates to such development. You can't go back, and you will have lost something irreplaceable and very valuable.

Confine the commercial sprawl to the existing retail areas. It's only a short drive to many supermarkets and other retail outlets - but there is only one beach, and only one way to maintain the low-density, community atmosphere of Peregian Beach Village. Even if shopping is regarded by some people as a form of recreation, they have more than enough places to do it! We need to retain areas for other, healthier and more relationship-building types of recreation. 

We have to have commerce, but we don't have to ruin the natural attractions of the community in the process. There are so many parts of Australia where this has already happened. Don't let it happen to Peregian Beach Village - the current and many future generations will thank you for it.

We believe that the zoning for community recreation space MUST be retained.

Full name: Janet and Andrew von Berky
Address: 3 Hawthorne St, Woody Point 4019
Date of submission:30 August 2013