A large vacant block on Dixon Avenue at Maleny will be reconfigured into 15 residential lots ranging in size from 1200 to 1241 square metres.
A development application by Bignose Developments Pty Ltd is seeking approval for reconfiguration of a 2.84 hectare lot bordered between Dixon Ave to the west and Hilltop Crescent to the north.
The proposal involves subdividing the area into 16 lots including 15 residential lots and a 5,012m2 drainage reserve held over a community title scheme.
The development is proposed to be undertaken over three stages.
The proposal is over a low-density residential zone and will include a private internal road with widened pavements and kerb and channel and concrete footpaths during their respective stage of development.
Surveyor and town planner CadCon states that the internal private road has been designed in accordance with the standards for an access street and will have a six-metre wide pavement with minimum four-metre wide verge widths.
Matters raised at a prelodgment meeting with council included issues that the proposal represents a “significant intensification” in residential development in the area and “it is appropriate that the proposal connects to reticulated sewer in accordance with the provisions of the planning scheme for urban lots”.
In response the developer said that it has received in-principle support from Unitywater and SEQ Water for a community title subdivision and sewer pump station.
An ecological assessment report found that there were no conservation-significant plant species found. There was also a high level of weed infestation.
“The abundance of native fauna is… expected to be significantly limited by the near monoculture of camphor laurel and privet,” the assessment found.
“Very limited native fauna foraging resources are present on the site.”
A creek line to the south of the development is set to be retained and rehabilitated.