Kitchen Shed Noosa - Planning Report - Impact Application - 251115

                                                                                                      Town Planning Report
                                                                        Kitchen Shed 3/9 Lionel Donovan Drive, Noosaville




3.         Development Intent
The Kitchen Shed is a food premise Industrial Business Type 2 as defined by the Noosa Plan. On site storage, production
kitchen and administration provide for the operation of the Kitchen Shed’s primary business which is wholesaling food and
beverage directly to restaurants, off site function and event catering, production kitchen for Gaston’s restaurant, and the
provision of such product from onsite as a shop / café with seating for up to 10 persons.

This proposal seeks to gain a development permit for the Retail Business Type 2 use – Shop and Salon – Takeaway Café, that
is currently in operation.

The shop as defined provides the opportunity for the product produced or wholesaled from Kitchen Shed to be available
for customers to purchase and if they choose sit on site and consume. Provision has been made for up to 10 chairs and a
table to enable this to occur. This seating is proposed with 10 seats as outdoor dining.

Hours of operation for the shop are from 7am – 3pm Monday to Friday, to coincide with the worker activity within the
Lionel Donovan Drive precinct. You are able to purchase a coffee, freshly baked product or sandwich and takeaway or eat
on site. This use as a shop is ancillary to the primary focus of the industrial use and as such only uses 19.7m2 of the GFA of
the development.

Council staff have previously advised that the consumption of the product onsite presents the conflict with the scheme and
that the sale of the products is consistent. (WA 15/0019).

As the use is currently occurring data has been able to be collected over a one-month period on its;
        Patronage / Point of origin;
        Mode of travel; and
        Dine in or take away.

This data has reflected the following;
        97% of all customers are working within the Lionel Donovan precinct or attending a business within the precinct.
         Going to the Kitchen Shed was not their primary driver for being within the precinct, it was a secondary excursion;
        98% of all customers walked to the kitchen shed and did not use onsite carparking; and
        68% of all customers took their purchase away and did not stay onsite to consume.

It can be clearly ascertained from this data that;
        customers are those from within the catchment and the Kitchen Shed is servicing a need that is not easily provided
         for;
        Kitchen Shed is not a point of destination to customers who are not already within the precinct for other activities;
        Walking is the primary mode of access to the site; and
        The majority of customers purchased their product and went elsewhere to consume (i.e. back to their workplace).

This data and its analysis is important when considering the proposal against the planning schemes DEO’s for Commercial
and Retail uses, and Industrial businesses and its primary function of the activities onsite.


4.         Characteristics of Site and Surrounds

4.1        Site Characteristics
The land which is subject of this application (i.e. the site) is located at 3/9 Lionel Donovan Drive, Noosaville and described as
Lot 3 on SP 119455. The site has 3 existing tenancies of which Noosa Glass is located in one, Kitchen Shed in another and the
third is vacant.

Lionel Donovan Drive is situated within the well-established Industrial area of Noosaville, in the precinct that is known as the
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