February 22, 2018
Kingaroy’s Avoca Street shopping complex is set to expand by 11 per cent with the addition of a cafe, pharmacy, liquor store and specialty shop.
At Wednesday’s South Burnett Regional Council meeting, councillors unanimously endorsed a development approval for the proposal, which was lodged by specialist development consultancy Project Urban.
At present, the SupaIGA supermarket and existing retail outlets have a gross floor area of 4517 sq metres.
The extensions will add another 525 sq metres of retail space by removing a number of car parking spaces next to the SupaIGA building.
The proposal also includes putting a roof over Domino Pizza’s outdoor dining area.
SupaIGA supermarket owner John Hyslop said the supermarket itself would not gain any extra floor space from the expansion, but there would be several changes to its current layout.
Chief among these will be relocating the supermarket’s entrance further along the side of the building, and replacing the current SupaIGA cafe with a juice and sushi bar.
The relocation of the entrance would make pedestrian access safer by allowing the pedestrian crossing to be moved further away from the street access.
The supermarket is already preparing for the changes by moving its stock aisles.
No firm date has been set for the start of construction work, but Mr Hyslop said he expected work would probably begin in two or three months after a builder had been appointed.
He said he believed St Vincent de Paul and an auto parts business would move into the vacant shops on the Domino’s end of the complex.
“We hope these changes will help make this part of town a more compelling retail option for customers,” he said.
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A proposal to create a small gravel quarry at 79 Tim Dwyer Road in East Nanango has been given the tick of approval by the South Burnett Regional Council.
At Wednesday’s meeting, councillors were told the quarry would extract no more than 40,000 tonnes of rock per annum.
Because of the small output, the proposal didn’t require an Environmentally Relevant Activity Material Change Of Use permit, nor did it conflict with the area’s rural zoning.
“The scale and intensity of the use is minimised by the tonnage, siting and management of the site,” officers told the meeting.
“Amenity impacts are also able to be managed by the conditions of approval.”
Councillors voted to grant a five year development approval subject to standard conditions, which largely focus on managing water flows on the site and minimising impacts on neighbouring properties.
