Submission re MCU13-0092 · MCU13/0092

Objection to the Proposed Commercial Development in the Open Space
Recreation zoned area of Peregian Beach
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To         The Chief Executive Officer                                                    24 August 2013
           Sunshine Coast Council
           Locked Bag 72
           Sunshine Coast Mail Centre, QLD 4560
           [email protected]



File No: MCU13/0092
Name of Applicant: Multispan Australia
Postal Address of Land: 5-7 Rufous street, Peregian Beach.
Proposal: Integrated shopping complex development

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

We object to the commercial use of the Peregian Bowls Club area zoned Open Space/ Recreation as determined in both The
Noosa Plan 2006 and the draft Sunshine Coast Planning Scheme (2012).

This development will adversely affect the consistent land and community use of the current Tennis Courts, Community House,
Kindergarten, Veggie Village and Di Hurst Oval and surrounding residents.

The Sunshine Coast Council Open Space Strategy 2011 identifies that “Peregian Beach locality area is generally under provided
for with recreational parks”(2011:35) and we object to loss of this recreational land for the current and future residents of
Peregian Beach and wider catchment to commercial development.


We object further on the basis that the proposed development creates more retail space than the area really requires at
present, and therefore is likely materially adversely affect the economics of several existing small businesses in Peregian Beach.

We note that there have been several types of business (eg butchery, greengrocery, newsagent) that have struggled during the
past few years and additional food retailing nearby is likely to result in the further ‘hollowing out” of the shopping precinct,
leaving only coffee shops, gift shops and a few clothes shops. We would argue the public interest is better served by
maintaining a core group of viable diverse shops in the existing commercial centre rather than less diversity spread over a
larger area.

Finally if the development is to be approved, parking is becoming a real problem in Peregian Beach. Any new development
should be obliged to contribute disproportionately to solving this shortage by ‘overproviding’ parking facilities, otherwise the
amenity of property owners in numerous surrounding streets will become more and more adversely affected.




(signed)


Jeremy and Elizabeth Maycock
4 Piper Street, Peregian Beach, 4573
[email protected]