2016-08-09 Planning & Environment Committee Agenda

PLANNING & ENVIRONMENT COMMITTEE MEETING AGENDA                                   9 AUGUST 2016



 Issues                                                        Comments
  Benefit of extended facilities for the Noosa Hospital
    by far outweighs the possible disadvantage of minor
    disturbances in a residential area
  High quality jobs will be created
  Property values will be increased by demand from
    staff seeking accommodation
  The site has unparalleled synergies with Noosa
    Hospital
  Definite plus to the streetscape

 Planning Issues
  In every town in which we have a hospital, the             These are generally broader matters
    surrounding area logically and necessarily                 to be considered for Noosa’s new
    redevelops as a medical precinct and councils and          planning scheme.      They involve
    state government work to achieve that. There are           broader issues regarding the
    precedents in Cooroy, Gympie, Nambour and now              capacity of the local road network
    Kawana. All of it driving economic resurgence, jobs,       and impacts on other centres.
    and new housing. But in Noosa we have to-date by
    way of our rigid Noosa Plan, prohibited such
    redevelopment, insisting on maintaining the area
    around our tiny hospital as solely residential
    detached housing, even as the increase of traffic on
    Goodchap Street, as a linkage between Tewantin
    and Noosaville, has increased to the extent that the
    residential amenity has been significantly
    degraded. Thus devaluing the properties on
    Goodchap Street specifically and making it
    extraordinarily difficult to sell them to new home
    owners
  As an older residential area, it does not present well
    with many properties run down and needing repair,
    but in many cases to do so would be over
    capitalising. Allowing a material change of use to
    medical services for this site, and ideally the length
    of Goodchap Street from the Hilton Terrace through
    to the existing medical/education centre on the
    corner of Eumundi Noosa Road is a logical and
    necessary step to allow these residents to obtain
    fair value for their properties when they sell. It would
    allow for expansion of the hospital if so required,
    and the expansion and enhancement of services
    offered to Noosa residents beyond those proposed
    for this site
  My recommendation would be to rezone the
    secondary streets (Val Crescent, Ridge Street,
    Juron Street, June Cres etc) to low-density attached
    housing, providing for nursing and retirement home
    and residential apartments/townhouses for staff,
    saving on traffic and parking congestion for medical


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