Dundowran and Craignish residents who protested against the proposed development last year thought the issue was dead in the water. Not so, says Tanya Sanders who has organised a public meeting next Saturday, April 5, 4pm at the Dundowran Hall on Dundowran Road.
Tanya said the previous proposal was never submitted for decision but the developer, Braith Vidler, was asked to provide Council with more information. She said Mr Vidler took 12 months to provide that information for council and now residents have until April 16 to lodge objections.
The original plan included 600 sq metre housing blocks, town houses, shops, a tavern and sporting facilities on a site with no sewerage connection and one access road. Land adjacent to the proposed development in Ansons Road and Sempfs Road is zoned Garden Residential, minimum 2000 sq metre blocks, which cannot be subdivided because there is no sewerage connection. The land proposed for development is currently zoned Emerging Community.
Tanya said Mr Vidler had submitted three alternative proposals for sewerage. The first was a piped connection to the Nikenbah Treatment Plant, the second to provide a large trap on site to collect sewerage and pump it daily into trucks for transport to the treatment plant, the third was to set aside an area of planted land and install a much larger system, similar to the systems now used in the area by individual householders.
Residents worried by the proposal were urged to attend the meeting. Tanya said it was probably the last opportunity the community would have to discuss the issues and lodge objections.
For more information Tanya can be contacted on 0401 356 878
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Back in the dark ages in Hervey Bay when we had a developer controlled Council (some things never seem to change) and Rafferty's rules were the order of the day with Town Plans and by laws apparently only written so they could be ignored, undersized water mains and drainage were common, and AHD heights of developments were easily reduced by the stroke of a pen, it was claimed that the "inhouse" nickname for Hervey Bay at the Local Government Department in Brisbane was "Inala by the Sea" due to the comparable haphazard almost institutional style developments that seemed to be an almost daily event. I think we were told by the high priestess of journalists at the time that "any development should be grabbed with both hands."
So it seems that the wheel could be about to do the complete circle if this is approved.
It seeks some things never change; well not in Hervey Bay anyhow.
Could this be our modern day "Inala-by-the-Sea"?
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