PLANS to establish a child care centre at Walloon were recently approved by the Ipswich City Council.
Petrie Projects Pty Ltd won approval on behalf of the developer to first subdivide the 1.8ha property at 548 Karrabin Rosewood Road.
One allotment will be 1.2ha and contain the existing home and outbuildings at the address.
The second allotment of 5,188sqm will be the site of the now approved child care centre. As part of the approval, the smaller allotment will now be ‘rezoned’ for ‘Community Use Child Care Centre’.
The child care centre, according to the applicant, will employ 22 staff supervising up to 164 children aged from 0-24 months to five years.
The building will house eight activity rooms. Two outdoor play areas are also planned.
The layout of the new facilities are to have 43 car parking spaces including 22 staff spaces (nine arranged in tandem), 21 customer spaces plus five bicycles spaces.
Council has asked the developer to pay more than $129,000 in infrastructure charges.
