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

Ridgewood to Tinbeerwah, including Cooroy and Lake Macdonald
       This locality had a population of 6,720 people on census night in 2011 (based on place of
        usual residence), and an estimated resident population of 7,307 people at 30 June 2011.
       The median age of the population was 47.1 years in 2011, which was slightly higher than
        the median age for Noosa Shire at 45.9 years.
       In other respects the locality was demographically similar to the Noosa Shire average.

Boreen Point, Kin Kin and Cootharaba
       This locality had a population of 1,755 people on census night in 2011 (based on place of
        usual residence), and an estimated resident population of 1,833 people at 30 June 2011.
       Between 2011 and 2015, the population was estimated to have grown at a fairly low
        average annual rate of around 0.6%.
       The median age of the population was 47.6 years in 2011, which was slightly higher than
        the median age for Noosa Shire at 45.9 years.
       This locality had a high unemployment rate of 9.2% in 2011 and was considered the
        second most disadvantaged locality in Noosa Shire at 2011 with a SEIFA (Socio-Economic
        Indexes for Areas) relative disadvantage score of 959.3.


2.3 Policy and Strategy Framework
2.3.1    ShapingSEQ, Draft SEQ Regional Plan
The first statutory regional plan for SEQ came into effect in 2005, and the current regional plan
(the South East Queensland Regional Plan 2009-2031) refined and modified the strategic
directions, principles and policies of the first statutory plan, in response to changing
circumstances and revised population forecasts.

The SEQ Regional Plan 2009–2031 is currently being reviewed, with a draft South East Queensland
Regional Plan, ‘ShapingSEQ’, released for community consultation in October 2016. ShapingSEQ
provides a framework for managing the region's growth over the next 25 years and sets a vision
for the next 50 years. Its development has included significant consultation with state and local
governments and the community in response to the region's expected changing population, both
in size (5.3 million people by 2041) and demographics.

ShapingSEQ proposes policy directions and benchmarks to address this expected growth,
including creating a region which is well-designed with communities that provide a diverse range
of affordable living. It also seeks to boost jobs growth across the region, in the industries of the
future. It also seeks an outward looking economy, given that SEQ lags behind Sydney and
Melbourne where a greater proportion of the economy provides goods and services to recipients
outside the region. ShapingSEQ will drive for a region that is smart, sustainable, compact,
connected, safe and healthy for now and into the future.

ShapingSEQ adopts a new approach to identifying and calculating the urban land requirements
for population and employment growth in SEQ. Previous regional plans for SEQ have defined the
Urban Footprint on the basis of the theoretical capacity for accommodating growth. ShapingSEQ
uses a more refined method in sizing the Urban Footprint, by identifying urban land on a realistic
land supply basis. Benchmarks for infill and greenfields land in Noosa Shire to ensure at least 15
years of supply of land is maintained, together with expected population growth and dwelling
supply, are shown below.




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