A drawing showing the layout of the various buildings and indoor and outdoor facilities.
A drawing of the front of the building to be called ‘The Homestead’.
A drawing of the front of one of the Specialist Disability Accommodation buildings.
A drawing of the front of the central community building.
The eastern side of one of the residential aged care buildings.
A 36 bed, aged care home and three share homes for high care disabled people has been approved for a large farmland block in Harrisville.
Council has approved an application from the Wesley Mission to establish the facilities in conjunction with a farm on a 24 hectare block at 60 North Street. The application was initially lodged in November 2020.
As the land is currently zoned ‘rural’, the Scenic Rim Regional Council had to first approve a rezoning (material change of use) and then issue a permit for the development of a residential care facility, a sewerage treatment works and animal husbandry and cropping on the land.
The permit means that the Wesley Mission will, according to its application:
• Demolish the home which is currently on the site.
• Construct aged care accommodation incorporating 36 beds “arranged in two
communities of 18 beds”.
• Between each 18 bed community will be a central building containing a café, the main kitchen, administration and back-of-house services such as laundry, staff room, storage.
• Construct disability accommodation under the National Disability Insurance Scheme for clients with high physical support needs. The accommodation will involve the building of three group homes, each with five bedrooms and a common lounge space.
• A community building, known as ‘The Homestead’, will be built and will include a multi-purpose space, a kitchen, space for visiting medical or health professionals to consult with residents, and space for farm produce; and
• Farm sheds and buildings such as a tractor shed, chicken coup, food troughs or stalls, a hay shed and a greenhouse.
A dam will also be built on the land and the applicants are planning to … “sustainably manage [waste] on-site with the implementation of a waste management plan that will include a three-tiered system for refuse waste, recyclable waste and compostable waste”.
Conditions set on the approval by Council include:
• All vehicles are to access the land via North Street only.
• A total of 46 car parking spaces must be provided including three disabled spaces.
• A concrete footpath must be built along the eastern side of North Street to Queen Street.
• Stormwater is to be collected and disposed of at a legal point of discharge.
• The sewerage treatment works and wastewater disposal system must meet the current standards.
Council has set the infrastructure charges due to be paid by the applicant at more than $578,600.
