Submission claims consultant's remarks are offensive
A complaint has been submitted to Central Coast Council that it has allowed derogatory "personal", "offensive" and "inappropriate" comments about a Woy Woy resident to be reproduced in a publicly-available development application.
The Council frequently redacts information from development applications and submissions that it deems inappropriate for publication.
In a request to modify conditions of consent for an industrial building at 5 Mutu St, Woy Woy, planning consultant Mr Ravi Sharma from Clarke Dowdle and Associates described the resident as a "serial complainant".
Mr Sharma said: "It is noted the complaints on the industrial premises are not from the adjoining owner and rather from a serial complainant who has a poor history of complaining about any operations occurring within the industrial zoned land."
In making a submission for one of the conditions to be retained, a member of the public has stated: "The comments made by the Town Planner Mr Ravi Sharma are inappropriate.
"Council created this condition as they are aware of the close proximity of residential housing and the impact to families.
"Mr Sharma has become personal when he stated a resident was a 'serial complainant' as this is an offensive remark.
"This remark should be removed from the development application."
The application seeks to change conditions of consent for DA/58460/2020 which was for an industrial building at 5 Mutu St, Woy Woy, to be used to repair and modify jet skis.
The application seeks to delete a requirement for a three metre high acoustic wall, a requirement for an acoustic report in response to a noise complaint, and "condition 6.30" which requires a rear roller door to remain closed at certain times.
It also seeks to vary hours of operation to allow for occasional operations on Saturdays.
Mr Sharma wrote: "The imposition of the conditions are onerous for the approved use of the site.
"The owner has been very conscious to minimise noise from the use of premises and the concept of closing the rear shed is impractical in terms of providing light and ventilation for the workers in the building and further does not reduce the noise impacts from the premises."
The submission in response states: "I object to removal of condition 6.30.
"This condition was imposed by council as a pro-active condition that actually works and needs only to apply when the jet ski is being revved.
"There are two other large roller doors that can be opened for light and ventilation.
"The owner will otherwise perform mechanical repairs in the parking lot, as he has done previously.
The application had a status on October 1 of "notification/advertising" on the council website and was accepting submissions.
However, elsewhere on the website, the closing date for public submissions was listed as September 29.
SOURCE:
DA Tracker, 1 Oct 2023
DA/58460/2020A, Central Coast Council