MCU15/0038 Information Request

Officer	Jack Lewis
Direct Telephone:	53296236
Our Reference	MCU15/0038
Your Reference	0182401824
27 May 2015

Dowling & Neylan
C/- Martoo Consulting Pty Ltd
PO Box 1684
NOOSA HEADS  QLD  4567

Dear Sir/Madam

Information Request
Sustainable Planning Act 2009

I refer to your application and advise that Council requires further information to satisfactorily assess the proposal.
application details
Application No:	MCU15/0038 OPW15/0072
Proposal:	Development Permit for Material Change of Use - Commercial Business Type 1 – Office Development Permit for Operational Works - Landscaping
Street Address:	168 Noosa Pde NOOSAVILLE
Real Property Description:	BUP 13572
Planning Scheme:	The Noosa Plan (16 September 2013)
information required
The information requested is set out below:

Proposed Building Works
The application seeks approval for additional building works including a 6m high feature clock tower within the front setback and timber batten screening over the existing carparking area. The proposed feature clock tower is more akin to a ‘pylon sign’ and does not maintain the visual continuity of building elements within the predominantly residential street.

Information Required
Please amend the plans by:
Removing the ‘6m high feature clock tower’; and
Ensuring the height of the timber batten screens above the carparking bays meet the Australian Standard minimum head height requirements.

Signage
The Advertising Devices Code includes restrictions on the number, size and type of signage allowed within residential zones.

Information Required
Please provide an indicative signage layout plan for the site, including any proposed ‘window signs’.

Landscaping & Accessways
The proposal provides for a pathway leading from Weyba Road around the building, yet there is no clear pathway back onto Noosa Parade (except though the existing carparking bays). The landscaping plans also propose to clear many of the existing shrubs and trees (palms and lilly pillys) within the Noosa Parade frontage. Specific Outcome O19 e) and the corresponding Figure 14-23 of the Landscaping Code seeks for appropriate landscaping solutions in front of business uses that reduce the visual impact of the building’s bulk.

Information Required
Please amend the plans by:
Providing for an appropriate pathway leading from Noosa Parade to the building entrance. The pathway should be located away from the existing carparking bays.
Landscaping plans detailing all existing trees and shrubs proposed to be removed.
Providing for appropriate species within the Noosa Parade frontage, in accordance with Council’s Planning Scheme Policy PSP3 Landscaping Plants and Guidelines. The planted vegetation must include a minimum of 7 x 45 litres pot sizes and consist of native, endemic species with a mature height of not less than 3 metres and a minimum spacing of 3 metre centres, with accompanying understorey, mounding and shrub planting.
Including appropriate landscaping specifications and details from a suitably qualified landscape architect/designer, including maintenance details.

End of Information Request

Under the provisions of the Sustainable Planning Act 2009, you have three options available in response to this Information Request. You may give the assessment manager (in this instance Council) and each referral agency (if any):

all of the information requested; or
part of the information requested together with a letter asking the assessment manager and each referral agency to proceed with the assessment of the application; or
a letter;
stating that you do not intend to supply any of the information requested; and
asking the assessment manager and each referral agency to proceed with the assessment of the application.

Please be aware that under Section 279 of the Sustainable Planning Act 2009, the applicant must respond to the Information Request within 6 months of the request or otherwise, the application lapses. You may wish to follow the progress of this application online at www.noosa.qld.gov.au.

Should you have any further queries in relation to the above, please do not hesitate to contact Jack Lewis on the above number.

Yours faithfully

Jack Lewis

cc:	Body Corporate - Noosa Parade Professional Centre
CARE Body Corporate Services
PO Box 450
NOOSA HEADS  QLD  4567

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