Page 10 - Best Of Local Mag May 2023 Edition

“Golf Ball” is now in Residents’ Court

Summary: The SNLGC Committee is able to offer advice to concerned residents
on the required process for lodging objections. It cannot win this alone and every
person’s submission will be considered by the Members of the Assessment Team in
Council. The Committee advises that if readers would like more information or wish
to lodge an objection please visit: www.savenorthlakes.com.au

Background to Current DA DA/2022/3732 - North Lakes Golf Course.

Over the past 5 years, the SNLGC Committee has sought to keep the community
informed and up to date on the proposed development for the former Golf Course.

Since 2018 the former golf course land, which is owned privately, has been under a
“heavy cloud”. A development company is seeking to develop a significant amount
of the North Lakes Golf Course into 240 + retirement units and a massive 24/7 care
facility, facilities which appear to be in contradiction/conflict to the Mango Hill
Former Golf Course - Environmental
Heart of North Lakes Development Control Plan of 1998 and as amended 2011.

Like so many in the community, SNLGC believes that no development should take place on the golf course that is not in keeping
with the Mango Hill Development Control Plan. It is the opinion of many that significant impacts will be felt throughout the suburb
if this development is approved by Council. Their concerns include:

• a loss of flora and fauna, stormwater/flood disruption, huge net loss of open space,
• increased traffic,
• precedent for more developments, including 24/7 care facility operating in residential area,
• loss of the best flat and high sitting open space land in North Lakes,
• The former Golf Course was located on the Open Space footprint of the masterplan for North Lakes

Under the provisions of the official Mango Hill (now North Lakes) Development Control Plan, Section 9 (page 94) certain uses for the
Open Space element are prohibited, including “retirement village” which is defined on Page 137 of that document as:
“

Any premises used as permanent residential accommodation for persons aged fifty
years or over and which consists of a grouping of self-contained dwelling units and/
or serviced hostel units and/or nursing home accommodation together with ancillary
facilities provided for use by residents or staff of the community and which may
include staff accommodation, chapel, medical consulting rooms, meeting rooms,
recreational facilities, therapy rooms, and kiosk facilities

It has been and remains the very sincere opinion of the SNLGC Committee and over 4200 residents who subscribe to SNLGC that
the proposed development as outlined in DA/2022/3732 is in breach of the Development Control Plan, which underpins the entire
North Lakes community.

Furthermore, there is an opinion that should this Development proposal be successful, then other aspects of the Development
Control Plan can be challenged including the relativity of the Mango Hill Village to North Lakes as outlined in Pages 114/115.
Residents of the Mango Hill community also have the opportunity to make a submission to Moreton Bay Regional Council on
Development Application N0. DA/2022/3732 as will the Mango Hill Progress Association.

Position of Mango Hill Progress Association:

At the Progress Association meeting held in the Mango Hill Hall on 18th August 2021, a meeting of some 120 residents adopted
the following motion. “The MHPA and community resolves to request each of our Local, State and Federal representatives to do
whatever is necessary to retain and enforce the Mango Hill Infrastructure Development Control Plan”.

Question: How can a facility which is “prohibited” in a legal document under Qld law, as is the Mango Hill Development Control
Plan, mean anything but “prohibited” as defined by the English Dictionary.
If the general public is to have confidence in public administration, then such questions should never need to be asked.