Information Response_010616 · MCU15/0122

    4. If available, provide material from Noosa Hospital collaborating the need for the development from its
       perspective and supporting the proposal.

This Addendum particularly addresses Issue 1 of the Information Request and should be read in conjunction with
the Needs Analysis prepared by Urban Economics dated December 2015.

Need Analysis

‘Need’ includes a variety iterations including community need, economic need and planning need. The Economic
Needs Analysis included numerous points demonstrating the need for the proposed development which broadly
included:

       The net benefits of the proposal to the community including training opportunities, convenient access to
        health facilities and services and employment opportunities (Community need)
       Demand for specialist health service provision including radiology (Economic need)
       Achieving community and economic need imperatives by locating the proposed medical centre proximate
        to the Noosa Hospital (Planning need)

Simply because specialist health care facilities are currently dispersed does not necessarily mean that
this is the most efficient, effective or economic means of providing health care services for the Noosa
population or for the Noosa health care community. This may indeed by a function of a lack of available
space proximate to the Hospital rather than real evidence of locational preference. Further we note the
increasing (and proposed) presence of health, wellbeing and affiliated services surrounding the Nambour
and University of the Sunshine Coast hospitals, for instance including specialist suites, GP clinics, day
surgeries, allied health, accommodation providers etc.

This analysis provides further detail as to the planning need for the co-location of health care facilities
and the need for the proposed development on the subject site.

Technical and Functional Reasons – Operator and Community Need

The Information Request seeks what could also be considered ‘operator need’ which in this case is related to the
community need for convenient access to healthcare services and are considered inextricably linked, and to
planning need implications as to why co-location with the Noosa Hospital is appropriate.

    1. Provide further detailed need analysis demonstrating technical, functional or regulatory reasons requiring
       the medical centre to be proximate to the Noosa Hospital.

The following lists further technical, functional and regulatory reasons for the proposed development’s need to
locate proximate to the Noosa Hospital:


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