Council to consider horse vet hospital
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TOOWOOMBA Regional Council could consider a horse clinic and hospital in a growing township of the region.
Applicant Rayner Laws Property Unit Trust last week submitted a proposal for an equine clinic and hospital on a 28-hectare property off Wellcamp-Westbrook Rd in Westbrook.
Writing on behalf of the applicants, Precinct Urban Planning’s Paul Kelly said the plan would turn a shed on the site into the hospital, office and reception, pharmacy and laboratory.
“The central and western portions of the shed will be converted to the veterinary clinic and hospital including a treatment area, operating theatre, scrub room, two receiving bays/stables, recovery room/ stable and intensive care room/ stable,” he wrote.
“The two receiving bays and operating theatre will be serviced by an overhead semi-circular gantry for the transportation of anaesthetised horses.”
Mr Kelly said the facility would run between 8am and 5pm, Monday to Friday, with two vet surgeons, two nurses and an administration staff member on-site.
“Additional sealed parking spaces will be provided along the southern side of the concrete driveway and immediately adjacent the shed to make provision for ten on-site parking spaces for the “veterinary service” use that comprises two practitioners,” he wrote.
Veterinarians Dr Stephen Rayner and Dr Glen Laws work at the Darling Downs Vet Hospital on the Gore Highway, just a few kilometres away from the proposed site.