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Jackie Keogh & Geoff Potter
29 Nebula Street 
Sunshine Beach
0438 737267
Jackie Keogh & Geoff Potter
29 Nebula Street 
Sunshine Beach
0438 737267

RE Application no. 132007.2446.03
102-106 Pacific Ave Sunshine Beach 4567
Attn: Patrick Murphy
I (Jackie) have been a rate payer of the above address since 1986, which is situated directly behind the new proposed extension of the backpackers.
My concerns for this new extension are;
-More noise than we have to suffer with currently.
-The valuation of my property dropping with an additional 21 dormitory style extra beds.  I feel the noise level will definitely increase even further as this style of accommodation attracts the young / party lovers.
- Parking in our street.
-Security to our home.  Strangers coming and going day and night, who have easy access to our property.  It’s terribly unnerving at our age being pensioners.
In the past years, I have complained many times re the noise. The worst days are public holidays (Australia Day, Anzac Day, New Years Eve, Christmas etc, etc).  I have so many diary entries of all the nights that I have been woken up.  Generally I scream out to them to shut it down or I’ll turn the hose on them and call the Police. That’s no way to live! And now they’re proposing more people?  How can you consider this proposal?
On the 22 of November 2016, I sent a letter to Planning at Noosa Council, complaining about the noise coming from the newly purchased property over my back fence (the new site). See attached e-mail.   We were initially told by the owner that the back unit was going to be used “exclusively” by his or his wife’s elderly parent, and that we had nothing to worry about! Since that time we have never sighted any elderly person in that unit ever, just all the backpacker staff.   So time goes on and the noise just continues.  We were also told that there were going to be NO chairs out the back, again another lie. The chairs are all spread out just 3-4 metres from our home.  Then there’s the congestion in the street of all the “Happy Campers”. I can’t remember how many I’ve had to move them on as they park over my driveway. They live half in and out of their cars, so they are in and out, all day and all night long.  As I mentioned it’s unsettling at Geoff and my age with all these strangers. If it’s this bad now, how is it going to be with an additional 21 people roaming the streets? I am honestly thinking of installing home security as a form of protecting ourselves.
So I am writing to Council to please help us understand how a peaceful plant Nursery can be changed overnight into a backpackers in our small community? It just seemed to arrive without warning.  I have been in my home for 32 years in our quiet residential street and now they think it’s ok to extend the hell. I am now also VERY concerned about the Vet on the corner….. if this one goes through, then is the Vet the obvious next site he will converted into MORE backpackers?  Especially, as it’s presumably already zoned for commercial use like the Nursery was.  Why doesn’t he move it into the Junction, wouldn’t that make more sense? And leave our quiet suburb alone.  Mind you he must feel very confident it’s going through as he has spent a fortune on the new back fence which I thought was rather premature given the date for submitting our objections was only this week.
What can we do? Do we have a voice?
We would be very happy to come together to discuss this matter with you as this will heavily affect us.
Hope to receive a reply in regards to all of the above.
Yours sincerely,

Jackie Keogh & Geoff Potter