Information Response_010616 · MCU15/0122

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.

The correspondence from Urban Economic provides the following concluding comments:

It is Urban Economics’s opinion that there is a clear and pressing need for additional health care
facilities and particularly radiation and specialist services to cater for the existing and ongoing health
care needs of the Noosa community. There is insufficient capacity within the existing Noosa Radiology
premises to cater for the existing and growing needs of the practice, requiring the practice to relocate
to better meet its operational, resourcing and patient needs.

There are clear operational and technical efficiencies for health care practitioners, staff and patients
through the co-location of specialist, health care and wellbeing services with the Noosa Hospital, with
the proposed co-location of the specialist centre and the Noosa Hospital bringing to the Noosa
community a level of convenience in health care afforded to other areas of the Sunshine Coast and the
opportunity to attract visiting and locally based specialists who require convenient access to both
consulting rooms and the Noosa Hospital.

There is no vacant designated land or vacant contiguous commercial space of the size required by
Noosa Radiology to cater for the expansion of the practice or the development of the proposed
specialist centre that offer the opportunity to create a health care precinct co-located within the Noosa
Hospital. There are no other specialist centres of the nature proposed within the Noosa area. Urban
Economics has also undertaken an analysis of the available land to accommodate the proposed
development. Whilst there is land available within the Noosa Shire Business Centre, it is either
designated for other uses or does not offer the significant economic, community and health care
benefits that would be derived by the co-location of new and higher level health care facilities with the
Noosa Hospital.

Therefore, it is Urban Economics’s opinion that there is a clear and pressing operator, technical,
community, economic and planning need for the proposed specialist centre to be co-located with the
Noosa Hospital and that the subject site presents a strategic opportunity for the Noosa community to
enjoy the benefits of a health care precinct that is afforded to other communities on the Sunshine
Coast.


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

Response:
Refer Attachment 2 which includes letters of support from the Noosa Hospital and Dr Sybil Kellner,
senior specialist of Haematology/Oncology at the Noosa Hospital.


5. Provide an amended Traffic report that:
    (a) Includes an assessment of traffic impacts on the wider road network in accordance with the
        detailed specifications of Council’s PSP1, including assessment of impacts at the Goodchap
        Street / Eumundi Noosa Road intersection, and the Ernest St / Hilton Tce intersection. The
        report must also include any measures required to ameliorate the development impacts.
    (b) Addresses vehicles accessing the site from the north. The revised report must include an
        assessment of the impacts on the Juron Street intersection (including turning path diagrams)
        and any other measures required to ensure that the u-turn manoeuvre is not carried out at
        any other inappropriate locations.

Response:
Refer attached Traffic Response prepared by TTM.         The response includes assessments of the
Goodchap Street / Eumundi Noosa Road intersection, the Ernest Street / Hilton Terrace intersection,
and the Goodchap Street / Juron Street intersection, together with vehicles accessing the site from the
north.