North Rd Development Objection

PETITION OPPOSING DEVELOPMENT APPLICATION FOR 132 NORTH ROAD, WYNNUM WEST, QLD 4178

As a concerned member of the local community, I ask Brisbane City Council to reject the proposed development of the site over concerns detailed below.
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The development apllication currently lodged with Brisbane City Council seeks to convert the property at 132 North Road at Wynnum West into an industrial warehouse facility, which includes:
- 58 commercial tenancies across five buildings, with an attached food and drink outlet on the North Rd edge of the site. It is unclear if the intention is for it to be a licensed premises.
- Articulated vehicle (19m long - ie semi-trailer) access for 'regular and occasional use', along with Heavy Rigid (12.5m) and Medium Rigid (8.8m) classification vehicles.
- Parking spaces have been allocated for 231 vehicles (227 + 4 motorcycle).
- Increase in traffic has been forecast at 278 trips per day, with 90 per cent of traffic forecast to be along North Rd, past the Iona College front gate, bus turnaround and playing fields, and Darling Point Special School.
- Noise assessment reports show that both campuses will be impacted, but particularly Darling Point Special School. However, these noise assessments have failed to take into account truck engine / exhaust noise created by vehicles entering and exiting the site via North Rd, passing both campuses.
- According to their own projections within the DA, waste generation is expected to be more than 40,000L/week (combined refuse and recycling), with collection of refuse by a 12.5m long truck proposed to occur three times per week.
This, like the previous DA proposing a change of use to a truck depot, will significantly increase the number of vehicles - particularly semi-trailers and heavy vehicles - along North Rd drastically increasing the potential for injury or death of students and families, especially those at Darling Point Special School who load and unload wheelchairs while parked on the side of North Rd.

This will be a seven-days-per-week increase, meaning an elevated risk to the safety of children and families who park along North Rd for weekend sport at Iona's fields, as well as Monday-Friday pick-up, drop-off, student pedestrian traffic between the Iona campus and fields and student car park, and the entrance and exits of school buses via the North Rd turnaround.

The traffic engineering assessment provided by the applicant does not adequately address the unique traffic risks of operating a high-density industrial complex directly next to school campuses.
I formally object to the proposed redevelopment of 132 North Rd, Wynnum West, on the grounds of (choose all that are applicable):

Risk to the safety of children and families: The proposed redevelopment introduces a hazardous conflict between heavy industrial freight transport and school-aged pedestrians, directly invalidating local transport safety frameworks. The applicant’s own traffic metrics confirm an additional 278 vehicle trips per day, including high-turnover peak periods during school operation hours. The site layout is specifically configured for massive 19-metre Articulated Vehicles (AV) and 12.5-metre Heavy Rigid Vehicles (HRV) maneuver, and exit directly onto North Road – a major school route with a 40 km/h speed limit between 7AM – 4PM on school days. Introducing a high volume of heavy vehicle and semi-trailers creates extreme, high-probability safety risks.Impact on children with special needs: Darling Point State School is a special-educational facility serving students a wide range of disabilities and special needs, including physical disability, intellectual disability, global developmental delay, autism spectrum disorder, hearing impairment, vision impairment, physical impairment, and serious health issues including epilepsy, cardiac issues, diabetes, asthma and allergies and anaphylaxis. The introduction of close-range industrial impacts is highly discriminatory and medically detrimental. These students will be impacted by Sleep and Learning Disruptions, with peak evening and night operations leading to noise Lmax spikes of 40–47 dB(A) from car door slams and loading bay activities, shattering the required local acoustic baselines. For students with sensory processing disorders, autism, and neurological conditions, unpredictable acoustic spikes (e.g. heavy engines, drop impacts) induce intense psychological distress and cognitive fatigue. The increase of heavy vehicle traffic will increase air and noise pollution, forcing special needs classrooms to close windows and restrict outdoor playground access to escape heavy vehicle exhaust and acoustic strain that actively compromises their specialised learning curriculum.Environmental impact: The western and northern boundaries of the lot share direct borders with a delicate, high-value Conservation Zone and the Sandy Camp Road Wetlands. The site is classified as "High Risk"; the site relies on subterranean proprietary filtering systems (Ocean Protect tank cartridges). If these active systems clog or experience overflow failures during regular rain events, high-concentration industrial chemicals will bypass filtration and pour directly into the wetlands via the northern headwall, under the BCC Erosion Hazard Assessment. Massive open earthworks will likely bleed toxic sediment and construction slurries straight into the local waterways. The daytime Conservation Zone border criteria of 40 dB(A) is thoroughly violated by the project’s heavy vehicle movements, permanently driving away native bird populations and terrestrial fauna.Health impacts: The physical health and respiratory well-being of thousands of local children should be the priority, but these are being reduced for industrial development with a significant and damaging lift in air and noise pollution. An average flow of 25 heavy rigid trucks and industrial vehicles per hour will generate continuous diesel exhaust and fine particulate emissions directly windward of school sporting fields, classrooms and playgrounds. The project relies on backward vehicle manoeuvring that will emit 2 kHz tonal piercing reversing alarms ("beepers") at 102 dB(A) at source. This will actively pierce local night environments and cause chronic sleep degradation for local residents.Increased risk of flooding: The site sits directly within a low-lying waterway pocket surrounded by vulnerable catchments, with North Rd and Sandy Camp Rd both prone to regular closures due to flooding. This proposal will exacerbate this issue by eliminating the current site’s water absorption capability with the expansion to 10,617 m² of total impervious concrete hardstand and roof areas, permanently eliminating the site's natural absorption. Stormwater outflows will dramatically outpace pre-development levels across all categories discharging massive, un-detained volumes will back up local drainage channels and push active flood waters into school properties. This bypasses retention controls breaches the core performance intent of PO2 and PO4 of the City Plan Stormwater Code by failing to protect upslope and downstream educational premises from accelerated flood hazards.
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PETITION OPPOSING DEVELOPMENT APPLICATION FOR 132 NORTH ROAD, WYNNUM WEST, QLD 4178