New Peregian Beach Community Association president Marian Kroon and former president Barry Cotterell. Mr Cotterell helped muster his grassroots troops to stop Lorikeet Dr being swallowed up in the Sunshine Motorway connection road network and also fought successfully to stop high rise development in the same street. For more than eight years he lobbied for a better outcomes at the old Peregian Beach caravan site where the IGA supermarket sits nestled below the David Low Way. The former Brisbane barrister rejected the not in my backyard accusations that his group was anti-development. We ve had developers wanting to build inappropriate developments, Mr Cotterell, 74, said.