BoralSubmission(MCU19_0054)

awning structures at the main building frontages and along the entries to tenancies. The treatment
of the site boundary with the industrial estate is not discussed in the planning report.

The proposal states that the large format retail, business and office use, food and beverage [will
act] as transitional land uses between the adjacent industry and the core of the Shire Business
Centre Zone. In reality, the proposal brings sensitive receptors to within close proximity of the
existing industrial development. Despite the encroachment, the application is not supported by air
or noise impact assessment. As a result, the application has not considered the impact of
introducing new sensitive premises on the ability of Boral’s concrete plant to comply with its
current obligations to control air and noise emissions (or the compliance position of any of the
existing industrial development).

Conflict with approval conditions
Regarding the threat to Boral’s compliance position, relevant conditions of EA 0920000095 are
provided in Table 1 below.


                    Table 1: Relevant conditions of Environmental Authority




While the Noosa Plan and the Department of Environment and Science do not provide
recommended separation distance for concrete plants from sensitive uses, Brisbane City Council,
Western Australia and the Victorian Environmental Protection Agencies recommended separation
distances range between 100m and 500m. The proposed development is in much closer proximity
than recommended separation distances from concrete plants. As a result, it is possible the
proposed development will be incompatible.

Specifically, with regard to Boral’s conditions of approval, for Noise, while the wording of the EPP
Noise and the Environmental Protection (Interim) Regulations differ slightly, the commonly
accepted approach to compliance is the “background plus criteria” whereby acceptable levels of
noise are set relative to the prevailing background noise for the particular time of day the plant is
operating. There are two key issues:

       more stringent noise limits apply early in the morning and at night, and




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