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RURAL

INTENSIVE ANIMAL INDUSTRY &
RURAL WORKERS ACCOMMODATION

CLIENT

Australian Country Choice Feedlots Pty Ltd

LOCATION

Moonie Highway

Moonie QLD

YEAR

2021

PROJECT CATEGORY

RURAL

Intensive Animal Industry (Cattle Feedlot)
including Rural Worker Facilities Development
PROJECT OUTLINE
 

Precinct Urban Planning was engaged by Australian Country Choice Feedlots Pty Ltd to provide town planning assistance associated with a combined development application seeking Development Permits for a Material Change of Use (MCU) for an Intensive Animal Industry (Cattle Feedlot), an MCU for Rural Workers Accommodation; and Environmentally Relevant Activity (ERA) for Intensive Animal Feedlotting.


The Intensive Animal Industry involves the establishment of a Cattle Feedlot on the subject land. The proposed Feedlot will have an ultimate capacity of 65,000 Standard Cattle Units (SCUs) including on-site infrastructure. The Rural Workers Accommodation use will form part of an integrated accommodation village that will include a series of single storey prefabricated transportable accommodation modules, and shared laundry, kitchen, dining and ablutions facilities. Part of the integrated accommodation village will be utilised for Non-resident Workforce Accommodation.


The application also sought approval for an Environmentally Relevant Activity (ERA) No. 2 (1)(c): Intensive Animal Feedlotting (> 10,000 Standard Cattle Units).


KEY TASKS
 
  • Provision of Strategic and Statutory Planning Advice

  • Development Application Preparation

  • Environmentally Relevant Activity Application Preparation

  • DA Process Management

  • Development Facilitation


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