2560752

The development was refused primarily due to traffic safety hazards on the R403 regional road and the failure to demonstrate that the site could safely accommodate a wastewater treatment system without risking groundwater pollution.

• The intensification of a single access point onto the R403 Regional Road would create a traffic hazard, endanger public safety, and set an undesirable precedent for similar developments on a busy interurban route.
• The applicant failed to prove the site can be drained satisfactorily; observed high water table levels and poor percolation indicate the proposed wastewater system would pose an unacceptable risk of groundwater pollution.
• The proposed development would result in an undesirable proliferation of on-site wastewater treatment plants within the landholding, which is contrary to the council's policy of discouraging such systems to protect public health and water quality.