Development Assessment Report

Project Urban – 19399                                                                      2 April 2020




4.0 PROPOSED

This application seeks a Development Permit for Material Change of Use for Commercial business
Type 2 Medical and Reconfiguration of a Lot for 4 lots into 2 lots to be established in accordance
with the accompanying Proposal Plans.

RECONFIGURATION

The site currently comprises 4 lots. It is proposed to reconfigure the site into 2 lots, comprising a
2,252m2 lot fronting Maple Street for the proposed medical centre and an 867m2 lot fronting
Myall Street containing an existing dwelling.

The reconfiguration proposal plan shows existing and proposed building envelopes. These
building outlines are shown for information purposes only and to provide context for the new
boundary line. They are not intended to limit future development of the lots in any way.

MATERIAL CHANGE OF USE

Consideration for the adaptive reuse of the existing character house as a medical centre has been
undertaken. This assessment determined that reuse was not a viable option due to a combination
of the nature of the proposed medical services to be provided (which includes medical imagery),
the installation of specialised equipment and operational considerations related to same together
with the inherent difficulties of providing equitable access into and around the interior of the
character house; as required for all medical-based establishments in order to comply with current
National Construction Code (NCC) requirements.

The proposal therefore comprises the relocation of the existing character house (to an as yet
undetermined location within Noosa) and construction of a new purpose built medical centre.

As part of the relocation consideration a Structural Engineering assessment and a Heritage Impact
assessment have been undertaken. The Structural Engineering assessment confirms that the
sound condition of the hardwood framing of the house would mean that the house can be
relocated to a new site provided the correct preparation was undertaken by a qualified and
experienced house removal contractor. The Heritage Impact assessment concludes that the
historical streetscape originally extant within Maple Street, Cooroy and consequently protected
under the Heritage overlay mapping has been predominantly eroded by the more recent medical,
commercial and residential development that now surrounds the subject house and leaves it both
isolated in that streetscape and segregated from the cluster of other traditional character houses
that remain extant in the southern portion of this streetscape. Therefore it follows that the
relocation of the subject house from this streetscape does not generate an adverse impact on the
virtually non-existent (save for the subject house itself) historical streetscape now found in the
northern portion of Maple Street.

Built Form
Notwithstanding the historical streetscape degradation in the vicinity of the site, the proposed
development has been designed to be sympathetic to the original historical streetscape character.

DEVELOPMENT ASSESSMENT REPORT                                                              Page 8 of 23
Material change of use and Reconfiguring a lot
45 & 47A Maple Street and 9 Myall Street
Cooroy Qld 4563