Minor Change Report OPW20 0145 06 (As Published) · OPW20/0145.06

               The subject change relates only to property described as Street number 63, 65, 67 & 69 Hofmann
               Dr NOOSAVILLE (Lots 3, 4, 5 and 6 SP322201). While the original approval relates to the entire
               development area:

                   Street address:     55, 57, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 72, 74, 76 Hofmann Dr and 37, 38, 40,
                                       46, 52, 54 Walter Hay Drive, Noosaville (formerly 28 Eenie Creek Road,
                                       Noosaville)

                   Real property       Lots 1 to 19 and 21 to 24 on SP322201 (Formerly Lot 3 SP 246584)
                   description:



               2.      BACKGROUND
               A development approval Development Permit for Operational Works – Drainage Works,
               Earthworks, Electrical, Telecommunications, Street Lighting, Landscaping, Roadworks, Traffic
               Signage, Stormwater and Clearing was originally approved on 17 December 2020. Subsequent
               revisions to the permit have occurred with the latest approval issued on 25 February 2022. As part
               of His Honour’s judgement, the landscape buffer to the frontage of Lot 4 was reduced from 10
               meters to 7 meters.
               The applicant seeks to amend the landscaping plans to align with the judgement of His Honour
               Judge Williamson KC.


               3.      ASSESSMENT
               3.1. Instruments for Statutory Assessment
               Under the Planning Act 2016 the application must be assessed against each of the following
               statutory planning instruments to the extent they are relevant to the development:
               •       State Planning Policy;
               •       South East Queensland Regional Plan;
               •       Planning Regulation 2017; and
               •       Noosa Plan 2020 (26 September 2025).
               3.2. Statutory Process
               The applicant has requested to make a minor change to a development approval under s78 of the
               Planning Act 2016. An application for a minor change to a development approval can only be made
               in circumstances where a change would constitute a ‘minor change’.
               The proposed change to the development approval requested by the applicant is determined to
               constitute a minor change on the grounds that:
               •       the development would not result in substantially different development
               •       the change does not include prohibited development
               •       the change would not require the application to be referred to an additional referral agency
                       or cause a referral agency to have regard to new matters prescribed by regulation;

               The applicant notified Energex (Affected Entity) in accordance section 80 of the Planning Act
               2016, for matters relating to Referral trigger is Schedule 10, Part 9, Division 2 of the Planning
               Regulation 2017. A response was received from Energex (dated 8 January 2026), with no
               objection to the proposal.




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