The owner of this property has tried for many years to sell this allotment. Now he appears to be subdividing it into 2 parcels to sell. Firstly a natural water course runs through here with rain collected from Castle Hill. It gets quite full and, according to a very long term resident has completely filled the lower level of the land in years past.
The owner is very slack with property maintenance with complaints send regularly to local councilor to have area slashed. THIS PRESENTS A HUGE FIRE THREAT IN DRY PERIODS. The abundance of problematic weeds impacts neighbouring properties. The "road ends" sign has been removed from the Robinson Street end.
Now the owner has been sending a dump truck to the site every half hour for the last few days to dump land fill. Yesterday the delivery started at 6.45am. The truck driver zooms down our narrow street leaving a cloud of dust on his arrival and departure. The fill is contaminated with concrete pieces etc.
This gully should near be developed for residential purposes.
24 - 26 Potts Street Belgian Gardens QLD 4810
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- Certificate of Compliance - Certificate of Compliance - Condition 9 - Bushfire Management
- Planning Authority
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Townsville City Council
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RAL17/0003.02This was created by Townsville City Council to identify this application. You will need this if you talk directly with them or use their website.
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Date sourced - We found this application on the planning authority's website on , over 4 years ago. It was received by them earlier.
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Notified - 44 people were notified of this application via Planning Alerts email alerts
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Comments - 2 comments made here on Planning Alerts
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I agree totally with the above comments.
My property is downstream of the proposed “development”. I have therefore witnessed, and been exposed to, these problems over the 13 years since first being made aware of the project in July 2008. The original proposal involved the building of 12 townhouses in what is referred to as a “flood plain” with its natural watercourse. The houses were also totally out of character with surrounding properties.
The site receives runoff (and debris) from some 12.5 hectares of the slopes of Castle Hill (from Engineers’ drawing dated 18/03/2008). This alone should preclude any residential development.
The maintenance of the site has always been very much lacking, resulting in numerous reports to the Council.
If the proposal to split the block is for residential purposes, I totally disagree for two reasons.
First, for regard for the eventual owners who would almost certainly experience flooding across their properties. Then there is the problem that all sewerage from the residences is planned to be pumped uphill to Potts Street. In the event of an electrical outage with rain, the pumps could not work. Overflow of this sewerage would then impinge on the gully as it passes through my property and others downstream.
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