Fast food for Drayton
Another service station, drive-thru restaurant proposed for city
ANZAC Ave in Toowoomba could get another service station, with a 24-hour servo and drive-thru fast food restaurant proposed for the western suburbs.
Applicant Tek Fuels submitted the development on Anzac Ave between Brittle and Boothby Sts in Drayton to the council last week, which would include four refuelling islands, a retail store, 23 car park spaces and two short waiting bays for drive-thru customers.
Property Projects Australia argued in the planning report to council that the proposal suited the land zoning of “medium-impact industry”, and that the restaurant was needed to service the surrounding community.
“The nearest existing food and drink outlets are well-removed from the subject site and the surrounding industrial area,” the report said.
“The proposed food and drink outlet will be centrally located within the established industrial area and will be readily accessible to workers within the area either via a short drive or walking to the site.
“Furthermore, the subject site and the surrounding area contain a significant amount of undeveloped and underdeveloped industrially-zoned land and thus the area has substantial capacity to accommodate future industrial development.”
The council revealed during pre-lodgement meetings that Brittle St might need to be widened in the future and wanted the applicant to dedicate a seven-metre section towards it, something PPA contested.
“Firstly the street does not presently have or have prospect of sufficient function to justify such works,” the report said.
“Secondly, in order to achieve widening for the full length of Brittle St it will be necessary to resume or achieve dedication of land from 12 properties with frontage to the street. It is not foreseeable that applications will be made over all of these properties in the near future.
“Therefore it is not reasonable to require the subject site to dedicate a seven-metre section on land along the north eastern boundary to facilitate this unachievable exercise.”
The land is listed on the environmental management register, having previously been a scrap yard.