Town Planning Report · MCU20/0135

2.     PROPOSAL

The proposal seeks for a development permit for building works to establish dwelling
house, which is to be issued by a private certifier. However, the proposed dwelling
house triggers a referral agency assessment by Council pursuant to the Planning
Regulation 2017 because it fails to comply with Acceptable Outcome AO2.4 of the
Rural Zone Code, being a benchmark contained within the Noosa Plan 2020.

The proposed dwelling house is to be positioned on an existing levelled building pad
that is situated 23.7 metres from the southeast boundary of the site. There is a small
portion of land located on the adjoining property to the south that is identified to be
Agricultural Land Conservation Area (ALCA) on Schedule 2 map OM-AL-1.
Consequently, the proposed dwelling is located within 200 metres on the Agricultural
Land Conservation Area located on the adjoining property.

Please refer to Appendix A – Proposal Plans and Figure 1 below for further details.


3. ASSESSMENT

3.1.    Assessment benchmarks related to the Planning Scheme

Pursuant to Table 5.5.13 of the Noosa Plan 2020, a Dwelling House in the Rural Zone is
Accepted Development subject to the following requirements:

Benchmark                                   Acceptable Outcomes
Rural Zone Code                             AO2.4, AO7.1, AO7.2, AO7.3, AO8.4,
                                            AO8.5, AO12, AO13 and AO15.

Low Density Housing Code                    AO2.1, AO3, AO5.2. AO5.3, AO8, AO9,
                                            AO12, AO13, AO14, AO15, AO16, AO18,
                                            AO19, AO21 and AO22.


The proposed Dwelling House has been assessed against the applicable criteria and
found to be compliant with each, with the exception of AO2.4 of the Rural Zone
Code. An assessment against AO2.4 and the corresponding PO2 is detailed below.


AO2.4 No sensitive land use is established closer than 200 metres from land on an
      adjacent property included in the Rural zone and mapped as Agricultural
      Land Conservation Area as shown in Agricultural Land Overlap Maps in
      schedule 2.

PO2    Development does not result in the loss or diminished productive capacity
       of Agricultural Land Conservation Area.



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