2021-07-06 Planning & Environment Committee Meeting Agenda

PLANNING & ENVIRONMENT COMMITTEE MEETING AGENDA                                                                            6 JULY 2021


The planning scheme prioritises the preservation of medium density residential neighbourhoods
for predominantly permanent residential dwellings and seeks to protect the amenity of surrounding
residential areas from the impacts of short-term accommodation. Whilst acknowledging that there
are a number of permanent residential dwellings within the surrounding area, it is noted that the
surrounding area consists predominantly of visitor accommodation facilities, including Sandy
Beach Resort, Sunset Cove Noosa Holiday Resort, Coral Beach Noosa Resort, and Como Noosa
Luxury Riverside Apartments (refer to Figure 5). Furthermore, there are numerous properties which
are currently being used for short-term accommodation (refer to Figure 6) or properties which have
a development approval which provides for the dwelling to be used interchangeably for permanent
or short term accommodation.
As the proposal is located in an area that would not be considered ‘predominantly home to
permanent residents’ it does not comply with the Purpose and Overall Outcome (a) of the Medium
Density Residential Zone Code. In addition, as the proposal is for the use to establish within new
dwellings, it does not comply with the Purpose and Overall Outcome (h) of the Medium Density
Residential Zone Code, which seeks to ensure Short-term visitor accommodation is predominately
provided through well-established resorts and holiday units.
The proposal does not comply with the Purpose and Overall Outcome (2)(t) and Performance
Outcome PO21 of the Noosaville Local Plan Code, as while the Code seeks to maintain
Noosaville’s role for visitors, it does not seek to increase visitor accommodation in the area and
increasing visitor accommodation in the area is likely to further impact on the amenity of permanent
residents in the area.
The proposal is also not consistent with Purpose and Overall Outcomes (1) and (2)(f) of the Visitor
Accommodation Code, as the proposed visitor accommodation is not appropriately located and
will detract from permanent residents amenity. There is also no need for additional visitor
accommodation in the area, as the extent of visitor accommodation does not integrate well with
permanents in the area and dominates the area.
The below image includes existing resort style accommodation located within the Medium Density
Residential zone in proximity to the subject site.




         Figure 5: Location of visitor accommodation within the medium density residential portion of the
                                                neighbourhood1




1
 Disclaimer – the mapped visitor accommodation are taken from Council’s existing database. It is noted the map may include errors and
omissions.

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