Glenn Fallon, Don Gayler propose fuel pumps, food outlet at Possum Paradise

Plans are progressing for a service station and drive-through on the recently upgraded Boundary Rd where the Possum Paradise site would be reimagined, should an application to council be approved. LATEST.

An application to put a service station and drive-through food outlet at the Possum Paradise site is before the Fraser Coast council.

The prime corner block that housed popular Hervey Bay nursery Possum Paradise for three decades is one step closer to featuring a fuel station and food outlet.

It comes after the public notification period for the development application on the corner of Boundary Rd and Senorita Pde, ended this week.

The property, which is home to the reimagined Possum Paradise Landscape Supplies and no longer serves as a nursery and cafe is owned by longtime Ray White Hervey Bay boss Glenn Fallon and local lawyer Don Gayler, who are both listed in the planning documents.

As required, the public notification period (which included an online classified listing) for the project ran from August 16 to September 9.

A post on PPLS social media page also flagged the plans for a “drive-through coffee and food outlet with a shop and small fuel/charging facility”.

Plans to add a service station and food outlet to the Possum Paradise site are currently before the Fraser Coast council.

“It is on the corner (of an) unused section of the property and will not affect the landscape yard or surrounding housing,” the post read.

“We will still be providing the same great service and products with plans to also expand our products.”

According to the application documents, the 1ha block at 82 Boundary Rd, which also has frontage on Senorita amid residential blocks would get two new separate single-storey buildings – one the 470m2 service station with covered bowsers and the second, a 228m2 food outlet with drive-through.

Possum Paradise on Boundary Rd, Urangan was a popular nursery for many years and previously had an onsite cafe.

It notes the now-open Boundary Rd extension from Denmans Camp to Urraween Rd provides for “a major arterial route east-west across the urban area” and is located in “an ideal interceptory location to cater for service station uses given the function of the Boundary Rd network.

It also claims the “proposed use will not introduce significant non-local traffic into distinct residential areas given the location adjoining Boundary Road, the use is located in a high exposure location that is suitable for these forms of uses, the proposed location does not interfere with any localised vistas or streetscape values (and) the site provides sufficient land area to provide appropriate buffering to

adjoining land uses, existing and future”.

With the public notification period complete, the application will now go to a councillor vote.

However, a date for the decision has yet to be announced.

“Council received 40 submissions (from members of the public),” a Fraser Coast Regional Council spokesman said.

“Submitters are advised to monitor PD online for future actions on the application.”

The site is on the corner of Boundary Rd and Senorita Pde.