2021-07-06 Planning & Environment Committee Meeting Agenda

PLANNING & ENVIRONMENT COMMITTEE MEETING AGENDA                                                                            6 JULY 2021


While short term accommodation is identified as a consistent use in the Medium Density
Residential zone and a considerable amount is envisaged in the local plan area, the planning
scheme seeks to ensure:
    visitor accommodation is not to the detriment of an adequate supply of permanent housing,
     and
    neighbourhoods of permanent residents are protected from influxes of short-term visitors
     whose interest and priorities are not compatible with residential amenity.
Review shows that there is a significant amount of visitor accommodation (or sites with a current
approval that allow for visitor accommodation) in the local plan area, with a number of sites
advertised as being available for visitor accommodation in the immediate neighbourhood and
zoned medium density residential.
The extent of visitor accommodation has started to erode the available supply of permanent
housing and consequently additional visitor accommodation will not integrate well with the area.
The applicant has further not demonstrated that there is a need for further short term
accommodation.
Visitor accommodation can impact significantly on residents amenity as evidence by the
submissions received to the application from residents and complaints received by Council
generally.
The proposal, being a single dwelling unit, does also not deliver on the intent of the Medium Density
Residential zone to provide greater diversity in housing types, including dual occupancies and
multiple dwellings.




        Figure 11: Location of visitor accommodation within the medium density residential portion of the
                                               neighbourhood2

2
 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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