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Planning Statement
Discretionary Use Application in
Commercial Zone
For:
Beta Park Bouldering Gym
47 Forster Street
Invermay, TAS, 7248
Prepared by:
Thomas Krauss
Rock It Climbing PTY LTD
54 Bathurst Street
Hobart, TAS, 7000
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1.0 Introduction
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1.1 This Planning statement supports an application that seeks to allow the
discretionary use of the premises at 47 Forster Street, Invermay for an indoor
sports and recreation facility in the field of bouldering.
1.2 The proposed use seeks to provide a specialist fitness and sports environment
which is currently not available in the local area and which demands a certain
type of accommodation, namely a large floor to ceiling height and an open clear
internal space.
1.3 This statement seeks to show that the proposed use will positively benefit the
local and greater community and will not have a negative impact on nearby
residents and businesses. It will also set out to show the significant benefits the
proposed use will bring to the community of Launceston in terms of employment,
health and well-being.
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2.2 The application building is a steel frame warehouse with 6.5m internal clearance
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2.3 A dedicated car park is at the rear of the warehouse via Sydney Place and
provides 18 car parks as well as ample space for bicycle parks.
3.2 Bouldering is a fast-growing and social variation of rock climbing. Climbers do not
use ropes or harnesses but scale shorter walls and are protected by a thick,
padded floor. There is no equipment required to start bouldering, making it fast,
safe and easy to learn and enjoy. It is challenging and gymnastic, it builds strength
and confidence, and is lots of fun!
Everyone can boulder and Bouldering-only facilities cater for a large target
market from a very young age to the elderly. Since January 2019 around 15
dedicated bouldering venues operate across Australia.
3.3 The nature of bouldering indoors requires a large unimpeded space free from
major obstructions such as pillars and a minimum size of around 500sqm to
accommodate for the bouldering walls.
3.4 As illustrated in the above image, the layout and wall design of bouldering only
facilities are very different to that of indoor rope climbing gyms and fitness
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landing mats extend throughout the landing zones. A communal space in the
middle of the facility is partially filled with the front counter as can be seen
in the below illustration.
3.5 The hours of operation will be between the early morning and the late evening
to cater for people before and after work as well as shift workers. This use
proposes to open from 6am to 10pm on weekdays and 9am to 9pm on weekends.
3.6 The nearest Bouldering Only facilities in Australia are located in Melbourne with
several gyms across the city mainly Northcote, Brunswick, Abbotsford,
Collingwood and Port Melbourne. There is a strong local demand for a facility of
this kind in Tasmania and one Hobart based facility is currently in the planning
stages.
4.2 The use outlined above meets all relevant qualifications in the use table and is
able to comply with all relevant Acceptable Solutions.
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4.3 23.3.2 Emissions and impacting sensitive use requires a set back from the site of
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residential activity by no less than 100m, as this is not the case with this
development, Performance Criteria have to be addressed as follows:
4.3.1 The use of the amenity of nearby sensitive uses such as residential use
is not adversely impacted and below are the objective responses to the
Performance Criteria of 23.3.2.
4.3.1.1 Performance Criteria – P1 – (a) - The nature of the proposed use
will see the site be vitalised in a quiet and organised manner
which does not negatively impact any nearby residence.
4.3.1.2 Performance Criteria – P1 – (b) - The characteristics of the
emissions will mainly be noise created by the facility due to low
levels of background music and patron to patron
communication.
4.3.1.3 Performance Criteria – P1 – (c) – The next door neighbour to
the east is the landlord of these premises and operates
‘MastaPlasta’, a local plaster and concreting business. The
neighbour to the south, across Sydney Place is Tas Petroleum
which operates 3:30am to 9:30pm on weekdays and 6am to
9:30pm on weekends, producing considerable noise pollution
due to the use of large equipment and trucks. The neighbour to
the west, 49-51 Forster Street is residential, but Beta Park
Bouldering is under the impression that the McDonald’s
corporation has acquired the land to expand on their car
parking. The neighbours to the north are several town houses
of residential nature, closest proximity door to door is around
40m.
4.3.1.4 Performance Criteria – P1 – (d) – The topography of the site is
fairly level with a drop of around 0.5m from Forster Street
towards Sydney Place.
4.3.1.5 Performance Criteria – P1 – (e) – Background noise and
emission levels in the area are fairly high as outlined in 4.3.1.3
as the proposed development site is surrounded by
MastaPlasta, Tas Petroleum, McDonald’s as well as Forster
Street itself as a high-traffic thoroughfare.
4.3.1.6 Performance Criteria – P1 – (f) – Mitigation measures proposed
are that during the early and late hours, noise pollution is
negligible due to very decreased levels of background music as
well as the closure of all main doors and roller doors to the
surrounding areas.
4.3.1.7 Performance Criteria – P1 – (g) – The character of the
surrounding area is of commercial to light industrial with some
minor recreation like CrossFit and other fitness gyms in the
area. Beta Park Bouldering will positively contribute to this by
activating the local area with patrons of all ages.
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5.0 Conclusion
5.1 This proposal seeks to bring to use a currently vacant building and will positively
stimulate the local precinct. Whilst indoor recreation is only a discretionary use
for the site, the development of the vacant building into a Bouldering gym has
significant community and social benefits. Venues of this nature have proven
themselves to offer an immense social contribution by occupying school-aged
youth and young adults, including those at risk. A similar example in Hobart
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informal capacities.
This development will generate new employment and bring investment into the
community, therefore representing sustainable economic growth.
5.2 The unique nature of bouldering and rock climbing meets a number of Council
and Government objectives to promote health, well-being, physically as well as
mentally through an alternative and proven form of physical and social activity.
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The documentation provided states that there are 18 parking spaces available for use by
customers of the proposed business. The layout of the car park has not been provided in
the documents submitted and the main entrance is located on the opposite side of the
building from the car parking area.
Provide a car park layout showing the car parking spaces allocated to this tenancy and
demonstrating that the layout complies with the Parking and Sustainable Transport Code. The
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As can be seen in the two above pictures, the space available behind the warehouse,
accessible via Sydney Place, has a capacity exceeding 18 car spots.
The surrounding area provides additional parking, and the space immediately out the front
of the warehouse offers 10 on street car parks on Forster Street.
As outlined in the Planning Statement previously provided, we expect over 75% of our
customer base to arrive by public transport and/or bicycle. This would result in a need of
around 8 car parks at any point in time, if operating at capacity of 30 customers.
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