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

Principle                Action

Housing                  Develop a range of policy incentives that provide a sliding scale of support for social
Affordability            and identified affordable housing projects.

                         Develop a planning and assessment framework and fast-track assessment system for
                         affordable housing projects.

                         Extend current policy which permits a reduction in car parking from planning
                         scheme requirements and incentives for social housing to include identified
                         affordable housing to support ongoing investment

                         Discourage residential development in areas with high impacts upon affordability
                         such as filling in flood plains, areas with limited provision of services and
                         developments dependent upon extensive private vehicle use.

                         Consider provisions in the planning scheme that require a prescribed mix of dwelling
                         unit sizes in housing projects comprising of more than six dwellings.

                         Consider provisions in the planning scheme that permit compliance assessment of
                         secondary dwellings on residential allotments

                         Investigate mechanisms for the protection of existing caravan parks and
                         manufactured home villages.

                         Plan for the provision of suitable land and investigate mechanisms within the
                         planning scheme that enable caravan parks and manufactured home villages to be
                         established in master planned emerging communities.

Self-Contained           Continue to plan for urban centres in an integrated approach using place making
Neighbourhoods           and TOD planning principles to strengthen activity centres.

                         Ensure planning scheme provisions encourage self-containment by considering
                         opportunities for increased housing choice with adequate access to services and
                         facilities

                         Utilise policy and tools such as the planning scheme, economic initiatives and
                         modelling to ensure residential areas contain business and employment
                         opportunities to encourage locally based jobs such as mixed development and
                         home-based businesses.

Transport                Ensure network planning of public transport infrastructure, walk and cycle links are
                         delivered in conjunction with development of new communities.

                         Include provisions in the planning scheme and other guidelines/standards which
                         improve safety outcomes for pedestrians and cyclists, as well as pedestrian access
                         around public transport stops.

                         Prepare subdivision guidelines within the new planning scheme and master planned
                         communities that support permeable subdivision layouts that encourage pedestrian
                         and cycle use.



The strategy has since been updated to de-amalgamated boundaries.

2.3.9    Implications for Housing Provision
The review of the policy context indicates that Noosa Shire has several long-standing housing
issues which have been outside the ability of past planning schemes to resolve alone. Key issues
appear to include:

       Housing affordability, especially for low income households and key workers;




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