Response to Information Request - Final 21 March 2024 · MCU23/0096

    “Adamson Town Planning, specialising in providing higher order town planning advice”




      •   A development permit for a material change of Use for an Educational Establishment
          – Additional Performing Arts Centre (PAC); and
      •   Cancelling development approval (MCU20/0072) for an Educational Establishment –
          Additional Demountable Buildings.

The response to the information request provides for the following:

•     Amended DA Form 1 – Application Details;
•     Letter from the Principal of the Good Shepherd Lutheran College;
•     Letter from Adamson Town Planning, including:
          o Attachment 1 – Master Plan;
          o Attachment 2 – Approximate Master Plan Site Cover Plan;
          o Attachment 3 – Proposal plans for the Performing Arts Centre;
          o Attachment 4 – Landscape Concept Plan;
          o Attachment 5 – Letter from GSLC (5A) & Email from Noosa Council (5B);
          o Attachment 6 – Response from Hayes Traffic Engineering;
          o Attachment 7 – Updated Stormwater Management Plan; and
          o Attachment 8 – Architectural Justification Statement.

Pursuant to section 26 of the Development Assessment Rules, the applicant is changing the
application to deal with issues raised in the information request. Consequently, the
development assessment process should not stop, given the changes being made are in
direct response to the issues raised in the request. This includes changing the application to
include a preliminary approval component, which responds directly to the scale and intensity
of the educational establishment in the long term.

Preliminary Approval – Master Plan

The Master Plan includes details of the existing and proposed buildings and other
infrastructure being proposed having a 10-year planning horizon and implementation period
(refer Attachment 1). It is intended that the preliminary approval will have a currency of 10
years.

The preliminary approval will provide more certainty about the scale and intensity of the
educational establishment in the long term. The preliminary approval will be a development
approval that the assessment manager is required to have regard to with the assessment of
future development applications under the planning scheme, for the proposed capital works
under the Master Plan.

The preliminary approval will limit the number of students and the equivalent full-time staff
to provide certainty about the scale and intensity of the use and the onsite parking demands.
The traffic engineering advice has confirmed the amount of parking being provided is more
than adequate for the operation of the GSLC for the student numbers proposed and the
equivalent full time staff. Further, the Master Plan provides for new onsite parking and

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