Heritage Impact Assessment

Heritage Impact Assessment for relocation of Character House (Rev. C)
45 Maple Street, Cooroy
For: Medicentre No. 2 Pty Ltd



1.      Overview & The Noosa Plan context

1.1      Background
        This Heritage Impact Assessment for relocation of a Character House has been prepared in support
        of a planning application for the proposed partial demolition and relocation of an early residential
        building from its existing site at 45 Maple Street, Cooroy to a suitably protected recipient site situated
        elsewhere within the Noosa Council jurisdiction. It is noted that the subject site is situated within an
        established Character area mapped with Heritage overlay of The Noosa Plan (Map OM3.2) and
        hence prior planning approval from Council is required prior to undertaking the proposed partial
        demolition and relocation of this traditional character house.
        This Heritage Impact Assessment will outline the architectural attributes of the subject character
        house in addition to identifying some unsympathetic alterations and additions made to the building
        by a previous owner. It is envisaged that the outcome of this architectural analysis will be the
        demonstration that the building core of the subject character house is actually more compact than
        that currently extant and can be readily restored to its original configuration before being relocated
        onto an alternative site in a different but comparable traditional character context.

        The proposed relocation of the traditional character residence has been initiated by the current
        owner of the subject site, Medicentre No. 2 Pty Ltd, which intend to redevelop this site as a medical
        centre in order to supplement the existing medical services precinct already established on the
        opposite side of Maple Street (i.e. Eden Private Hospital) and better align with the Community
        Services land use zone applicable to this particular site and the surrounding precinct.

        The proposed development outcome involving the partial demolition and relocation of the subject
        character house is anticipated to generate negligible adverse heritage impact on the character
        streetscape of Maple Street, Cooroy as the subject house is already flanked to the north, north-west
        and west by more contemporary commercial and/or medical establishments and immediately to the
        south by a c.1960s house. Therefore it is considered that the proposed extent of partial demolition
        and the associated relocation of the subject house to an alternative site where the building will
        remain under demolition protection, as documented in this proposal, is suitable for planning
        approval by Council.



1.2      The subject site
        It is noted that the subject site has the real property description of Lot 15 on C5605 and comprises a
        total site area of 1,156.87m2. As noted above, the subject site is situated within the CR1 Community
        services zone (see Figure 2) and mapped within the Heritage overlay under The Noosa Plan (see
        Figure 3).

        As can be seen from this topographical / cadastral mapping shown at Figure 1, the section of Maple
        Street in Cooroy within which the subject house is located veers away from the essentially north-
        south alignment of the southern portion of that street – which runs along the top of the local
        ridgeline – and incorporates descending natural ground levels across the street frontage of the
        subject site.



19125 / Maple                                                                                                    4