The 2024sq m site is set to be transformed into what the proponents argue is a much-needed service station.
An application for a service station was made previously on the site in December 2012, but withdrawn in April 2013, which Dr McCallum believed was due to public backlash.
"The community took a deep breath and hoped that was the end of it," Dr McCallum said.
Then in 2017-18 there were murmurings again that a similar service station would be built on that site.
"The community again rallied to some extent to fight that but unfortunately ⦠there was no mechanism by which the public or anyone else could object to the approval of that development."