Minor Change Application Report · MCU15/0111.03

Table 2 – Substantially Different Criteria Response

 Guideline Criteria                                               Response
      a) involves a new use; or                                   The proposed change removes the
                                                                  Caretaker’s Residence and includes an
                                                                  additional common facility. Therefore no
                                                                  new use is proposed. The additional
                                                                  common facility is ancillary to the defined
                                                                  land use of ‘Multiple Housing – Type 3’.
      b) results in the application applying to a new             No additional land forms part of the change
         parcel of land; or                                       application.
      c) dramatically changes the built form in terms             The scale, bulk and appearance of the
         of scale, bulk and appearance; or                        Caretaker’s Residence and proposed
                                                                  Recreational Building are interchangeable.
                                                                  No dramatic changes is built form are
                                                                  proposed.
      d) changes the ability of the proposed                      The overall development will operate as
         development to operate as intended; or                   normal, with additional communal space for
                                                                  residents’ enjoyment. As the Caretakers
                                                                  currently live off-site, the resort will operate
                                                                  as normal.
      e) removes a component that is integral to the              The Caretaker’s Residence is not considered
         operation of the development; or                         integral to the operation of the resort. The
                                                                  resort operations are managed by the
                                                                  Caretakers currently living off-site.
      f)   significantly impacts on traffic flow and the          The proposed changes will not increase
           transport network, such as increasing traffic          traffic to the site, as the facility is open to
           to the site; or                                        residents of the resort only.
      g) introduces new impacts or increase the                   No new impacts or increases to known
         severity of known impacts; or                            impacts will occur as part of the proposed
                                                                  change.
      h) removes an incentive or offset component                 The change application does not involve
         that would have balanced a negative impact               removing any incentive or offset component
         of the development; or                                   of the development.
      i)   impacts on infrastructure provisions.                  The change will have no impacts upon
                                                                  infrastructure provisions.

In addition to satisfying the definition of Minor Change under the Planning Act, the following points
are noted in relation to the proposed change:
    1. The replacement of the Caretaker’s Residence with the Recreational Building will provide
        more communal space and an additional facility for residents;

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