2017-04-11 P&E Agenda Attachment 1 to Item 1 Housing Needs Assessment

Table 69. Comparison of modelled need to meet resident household growth and capacity
for resident dwellings, Noosa Shire, 2016-2036

Year                Resident Household Needs over                      Capacity over Assumed
                      Assumed Provision at 2016                          Provision at 2016

                 Detached        Attached        Total        Detached       Attached         Total

2016                 327             -336          -9             0              0              0

2021                 132             -457        -325            916            744           1,660

2026                -201             -633        -834            945           1,288          2,233

2031                -306             -847        -1,153          932           2,006          2,938

2036                -324             -1,027      -1,351          987           2,248          3,235

Notes: This table shows the total need over assumed provision at 2016. Figures are accumulative. Negative
figures show additional demand or a shortfall (shown in red). Positive figures show additional supply or an
‘oversupply’ (shown in black). This table has a range of limitations, including the different methodologies used
to identify and project resident households/resident dwellings. It should be used with caution.

6.5.2    Meeting Tourist/Visitor Needs
In addition to allowing ongoing development of visitor accommodation supported under the
Noosa Plan (in line with DMaTT projections above), there are assumed to be three ways of further
increasing visitor dwelling stock:

       Through the adoption of secondary dwellings (as above);
       Identification of new ‘tourist only’ resort sites (i.e. sites protected for visitor
        accommodation);
       An increase in short term rental dwellings.

Secondary Dwellings
Additional secondary dwellings may help to meet future visitor dwelling needs. As outlined
above, two scenarios were developed relating to the take up of secondary dwellings. Assumptions
about the use of these secondary dwellings for visitors were also made. The high take up scenario
suggested that an additional 1,040 secondary dwellings for visitors could be provided to 2036,
and the low take up scenario suggested that an additional 559 secondary dwellings for visitors
could be provided to 2036. The low take up scenario was considered to be more realistic and the
resulting shortfall in tourist/visitor dwellings according to this scenario is outlined in Table 70.

Additional Resort Sites
As discussed, ‘tourist only’ designations were recommended to apply to only 8 resort sites in the
1997 Strategic Plan, however individual approvals have not taken consistent approaches. These
sites are mostly zoned Attached or Semi Attached Housing but the use of Multiple Housing is
specifically inconsistent whereas Visitor Accommodation (of various types) is consistent. They
have proved problematic to control both by Council and resort managers.

A view also emerged from the consultation that such sites were simply not feasible to develop;
and requests to lift the ‘tourist only’ restrictions on both developed and undeveloped sites have
been made over the years.

It nevertheless remains as an option to designate other sites in this manner. Such a designation
would however probably require use of one of the remaining larger development sites (thus



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