Information Response_010616 · MCU15/0122

The Shire Business Centre

“Given ample undeveloped land exists for the use at the Shire Business Centre, the need for co-location with Noosa
Hospital must be clearly demonstrated.”

As identified within the Economic Needs Analysis, The Shire Business Centre is the highest order centre within
Noosa and is largely defined by the Noosa Civic shopping centre, which includes a Woolworth’s supermarket and
Big W store, as well as over 100 specialty stores and offices across more than 30,600m2 of GLA.

Whilst the Shire Business Centre Includes appropriately zoned areas which may allow for a proposal such as the
subject medical centre, sites within the Centre are not considered to be sequentially available, suitable or viable
and the following supports this view.

    o   The majority of the Shire Business Centre is controlled by the Queensland Investment Corporation (QIC).
        Described as Lot 3 on SP246584, the QIC site occupies some 31.74ha or approximately 80% of the
        developable area. QIC’s recent expansion plans to include additional retail and commercial space
        (including provision for Commercial Business - Type 2 Medical) were refused by Council.

Other sites within the Shire Business Centre include:

    o   Lot 1 on SP222982 (2.58ha) and Lot 4 on SP246584 (9,952m2) – These sites within the ‘B3’ and ‘E5’
        precincts of the Centre and have an existing approval to develop a large format hardware store.
    o   Lots 1 to 7 on SP244573 (2.73ha) – Within the ‘E4’ precinct, these sites form part of a subdivision for
        industrial and warehousing uses.
    o   Lots 1-11 SP230643 (2.08ha) – Within the ‘E3’ precinct, the ‘Metro Innovation Park’ is an establishing
        industrial and warehousing subdivision.
    o   Lot 4 on SP222982 (6,189m2) – Within the ‘RES’ precinct, the site has an existing approval for 30
        townhouses.

None of these sites offer proximity to the Noosa Hospital nor are there buildings of the scale required
by Noosa Radiology to accommodate the practice’s current and expansionary needs.

Other Noosa and Noosaville Sites

The Needs Analysis undertook a comprehensive analysis of the capacity for existing buildings within
centres in Chapter 3 and 6, to accommodate the proposed development, and concluded that there were
no existing vacancies of the scale required by Noosa Radiology to accommodate the expansion of the
practice. More particularly, there was no zoned, contiguous space of the nature required by Noosa
Radiology to accommodate the practice’s needs.



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