Information Response_010616 · MCU15/0122

On this basis, Urban Economics concludes that there are clear operational and technical needs for the
co-location of health care facilities that will have significant economic and community benefits for the
Noosa community in creating a specialist health care precinct and will bring to the Noosa community
a level of service available throughout other areas of the Sunshine Coast.

Sequential Site Analysis – Other Planning Need Issues

This sequential approach to site comparison examines the opportunity to establish the proposed medical centre
development on appropriately zoned sites within Noosaville. In this instance, these potential locations include the
existing Noosa Hospital site and the Shire Business Centre. The following analyses the subject site’s availability,
suitability and viability compared to sites within the Shire Business Centre and Noosa Hospital.

    3. “To the extent a need to co-locate a new medical centre is identified provide comment on why it could not
       or should not be established on the Noosa Hospital site.”

The Noosa Hospital Site

       The 2013-14 Ramsay Healthcare Noosa Hospital Annual Report outlines the capital investment program
        for the hospital which lists refurbishments and equipment purchases however:

        “We are dedicated to overcoming the challenges posed by our facility including limited space availability
        and look forward to a decision about the hospital’s future so that Ramsay Health Care may commit to
        funding a capital works program and the building of new pavilions.”

       The Noosa Hospital operates under a Build Own Operate Transfer (BOOT) scheme in partnership with QLD
        Government until June 2020. As a commercial for profit provider, Ramsay Healthcare is not required to
        accommodate third-party developments and would be contractually limited on land owned by the State
        that is governed by an ongoing service agreement.

       Despite being approximately 7.57ha in area, the Hospital site includes a significant proportion
        (approximately 2.18ha or 29%) which is designated ‘Open Space Conservation’ that is not intended or
        designated for further expansion of the Hospital.

The Needs Analysis demonstrated a clear and pressing need for the expansion of specialist services including the
need for expansion of Noosa Radiology to meet current and future patient needs. Reliance on any future
development of the Noosa Hospital on this basis, would appear to be some considerable time in the future, if at
all, and would therefore continue to disadvantage the Noosa community if the level of service and specialist health
care was not improved in a site co-located with the Hospital to consolidate health care.

Additional information relating to Issue 3 of the Information Request pertaining to the Noosa Hospital site will be
separately provided by the Applicant.

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