13 First Avenue Sunshine, VIC

The application applies to a recycling facility and resource recovery which has a 1000 metre minimum distance threshold from children's schools. There is a childcare, primary school and kindergarten all in close proximity 400-600m away from the site. The site has been operating the facility illegally and may have been doing so as the owners had knowledge of the site restrictions. It was the owner's responsibility to do the necessary checks. The type of industrial activity being undertaken is inappropriate for the surrounding residential and heritage overlays. Further community concerns around tyre debris seeping into local storm water drains pose local environmental risks. Given the very light nature of surrounding industrial activity and the growing residential nature of surrounding zones this application should be rejected. The site offers little employment value to the surrounding community as only a few people are proposed to work at the site at any time. Increasingly hospitality venues are opening in the zone suggesting community interest in the zone catering increasingly more to recreational activity and less to industrial which would be community's future hopes for the area as the surrounding residential zone population increases. Recommend rejecting the application for the use of the site for recycling as it violated the site's zoning restrictions and failed to apply for the necessary permits, and is inappropriate activity for a low level industrial zone bordering a heritage overlayed residential zone with very young children care and education facilities.