Redlands community saves signficant wildlife habitat
Photo © WPSQToday the Court of Appeal ruled in favour of the Redlands community and Redland City Council over the Super Quarry (Barro Pty Ltd) at Mt Cotton.
The community are very pleased with the result for a matter that has been going for several years, taking up financial resources and causing great angst.
The community are particularly thankful for Redland City Council’s support and role in the Appeal - their involvement was critical to the success of the Appeal.
Mr. Baltais said, 'We are very grateful for Redland City Council's support in the Super Quarry Appeal they mounted a strong case and were of great support to the community.
For the moment, the success of the case means that a significant landscape, local community amenity and rich abundance of wildlife are now safe. Local community life can return to some normality instead of worrying about a massive quarry - in some cases 250 metres away from their boundary fence.
It is a shame that it was the local community that went into this Appeal defending State interest matters (which included koala habitat listed by State Legislation as significant and core habitat) and received no support from the State Government.
Mr Baltais said 'the State Government has created legislation in favour of the developer, allowing developers to submit applications that can be short of appropriate information making it very difficult for councils to make decisions about such applications and forcing the community to take more and more of these applications to court.'
‘It seems from the community's perspective that the State Government was more interested in seeing an outcome in favour of the developer rather then their constituents, the community' he said.
WPSQ State President acted as legal counsel for many of the community involved.
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