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New child care centre receives building approval Cobar Shire Council last week approved the centre’s core operating hours will be re- intrusion of light to the adjoining homes; it is the development of a new child care centre stricted to 7am to 6pm weekdays (staff may a requirement to maintain the landscaping of in Brough Street. arrive earlier and leave later to set up and the site and a landscaping plan must be preThere had been some vocal opposition by clean up); child safe fencing is to be erected pared and submitted; the existing carpark nearby residents to the application to convert with acoustic 1.8m high fences to be installed must be retained and repaired; and all develthe former Jehovah Witness place of public on three boundaries; all external lighting is to opment consent lapses if construction is not worship into a Centre Based Child Care Facil- be positioned and directed so as to prevent commenced within five years. ity. The residents were concerned it would affect their amenity and privacy and also have adverse noise, traffic, social and economic impacts on the neighbourhood. In addressing some of the issues raised, the building applicant, Arzal Arzal from Little Kindy Pty Ltd, had organised for noise impact and traffic assessments to be carried out. Both assessments concluded there would be “no consequential impacts” on the surrounding area. When the Development Approval (DA) was presented to the Ordinary Council Meeting last week, Cr Janine Lea-Barrett said she believed Council’s planning department had “adequately addressed” all of the issues that had been raised about the change of use for the site. As part of the approval process, Council’s planning department has imposed a number of conditions on the build. Council cites the conditions are to be imposed for a number of reasons, including protecting the amenity of land adjoining and in the locality of the proposed development and to ensure the development does not conflict with public interest. Among the conditions are: strict hours of construction work on the site; no nuisance or The new owners of the former Kingdom Hall Jehovah Witness church building at the interference with the amenity of the area is to western end of Brough Street, have been given council approval to re-purpose the site for be created during construction or operation; use as a child care centre.
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0429 363 047 Wednesday March 1, 2023 The Cobar Weekly Page 3
