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By Greg Brown GC&M News last week reported on a massive new development proposal for the south-eastern corner of Steve Irwin Way and Roys Road in Beerwah. The proposal – by Coles Group Property Developments Ltd – includes a full-line Coles supermarket, a petrol station, a fast food outlet and drive through, a retail showroom, significant car parking and plans for extensions to include a hardware/nursery, gym, bulky goods homemaker centre and a zone for service/light industry development. The planned timeframe to opening is ambitiously given as 2021. If approved, the Beerwah Homemaker Centre (as it will be called) could see a significant shift in the retail and commercial balance of Beerwah. The existing Sunshine Coast town plan shows the central business district of the town based around the Simpson Street/Peachester Road precinct. Sunshine Coast Council has spent more than $5 million improving the town centre to reflect this. The land in question is currently zoned for medium impact industrial use, which is the same as the land around Moroney Place and Biondi Crescent. There is a limited supply of land zoned for this purpose in Beerwah and surrounding towns. Coles Group Property Developments asserts that the current planning scheme fails Beerwah as it does not allow adequate space for it to grow and become the medium regional activity centre it is planned to be.
They state that the existing commercial precinct in Beerwah “… is stunted in a major redevelopment sense by small allotment sizes in different ownerships. Any opportunity for major redevelopment within the existing centre would involve amalgamation of numerous smaller land parcels, from multiple owners and redevelopment of existing built structures”. Consequently, the developers insist that the council change the town plan to rezone the 16plus hectares of land to the specialised centre zoning. This change of zoning would likely allow any subsequent applications to be code assessable and not subject to public notice or community consultation and submission requirements. As the application has been made by the development arm of Wesfarmers, which part owns Coles, it is expected that the supermarket will be a Coles. The main planning document does not specifically say what businesses will take up the other spaces for the petrol station, showroom and fast food outlet with drive through. However, supporting architectural schematics specifically mention Mobil for the petrol station and McDonald's for the fast food outlet. As for the future plans for a hardware/nursery centre … one can only guess but Wesfarmers owns Bunnings. The Coles planned is 3,768m2 in size, which is about the same space as the Beerwah Woolworths. It would have 212 car parking spaces, which is about half that in the Woolworths side of the Beerwah Marketplace.
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