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Steve Jardine RE MCU23_0019
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To the Assessment Manager Noosa Shire Council. RE MCU23/0019 Development Application for Short Term Accommodation situated at 2A Woongar Street Boreen Point, Lot 16 RP 112348. From: Steve Jardine, 34 Woongar Street Boreen Point QLD 4565. I would like to object to the proposed development application MCU23/0019 on the following grounds. • The village of Boreen Point has seen a huge increase in Short Term Accommodation options in the past few years. Currently visitors have a wide variety of accommodation options that have a great deal of capacity. I do not believe that the village of Boreen Point needs any more options for STA. In section 7.2.1.3 of the Noosa Plan 2020, Performance outcomes for Hinterland Villages states that, “Development contributes to the lifestyle and amenity of residents of the Hinterland Villages and their surroundings” and “Development enhances the ability of the Hinterland Villages to function as small sustainable communities of permanent residents with a limited range of business, community and employment services that support the villages and broader rural areas, including visitors. I believe that this development will not enhance the ability of Boreen Point to function as a sustainable community or contribute to the lifestyle and amenity of residents. Some of the STA options currently available to visitors include; Boreen Point Campgrounds/ Caravan Park - This facility caters for campers, camper vans and caravans, and caters for 100’s of guests. Boreen Point Motel - This facility has 5 Units and a Beach House, up to 26 guests can be accommodated on site. Apollonian Hotel - This facility can sleep over 20 guests in guest rooms rooms as well as catering for a large number of campers on site. Habitat Noosa / Elanda Point - This facility has over 24 Glamping style tents catering for over 100 guests. The site also caters for over 500 campers, caravan and camper options. 9 registered Short Term Stay / Airbnb type options, these cater for over 55 guests. 10 registered hosted short term stay options, catering for over 30 guests. Le Bateau Ivre guesthouse - This facility can host over 14 guests. There are also a multitude of STA options in the Cootharaba, Pomona, Kin Kin, Tewantin, Noosaville and Noosa areas. Boreen Point also has a large number of private holiday houses that are sometimes occupied by the owners. These properties are also frequently occupied by the owners friends or relatives or rented privately when events such as sailing regattas are on.
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• Boreen Point has a limited amount of public space. The foreshore areas, where most visitors
congregate, consists mostly of an undeveloped natural environment. This environment is
fragile and is under constant pressure. I believe that adding more visitors to this area will
have a negative impact on the foreshore and affects the ability of the foreshore to withstand
the impact from climate and tourism.
• The property at 2a Woongar street is 10 Hectares in size, but visitors will be constrained to
less than 1/2 hectare due to the low lying nature of the property. According to Noosa Shire
Council mapping, more than 80% of the property will be inundated in a minor flood event,
90% inundated in a moderate flood, including road access and under buildings, and in a
major flood event over 90% including flooding under all building and most of the road
access.
• I believe this development application should be assessed against the regulations for Low
Density Residential properties, the current zoning of this property ( Rural ) does not
accurately reflect the nature and position of the property and where it lies in the village of
Boreen Point. The property has no less than 11 direct neighbouring properties that are
zoned Low Density Residential. The property is closer to the centre of Boreen Point to no
fewer than 30 Low Density Residential zoned houses within the village. There is only one
property that has a common boundary that is zoned Rural, the zoning of this property is also
questionable, due to its physical location within Boreen Point.
• I believe the scale of the development, 5 bedroom/ 10 occupants does not reflect the intent
of the zoning for the small village of Boreen Point. If the application is successful, this will be
the largest capacity of all but one STA in Boreen Point. Currently when the property is
occupied by the owners, nearby residents can hear quite clearly that the property is
occupied.
• I believe that the managers of STA in Boreen Point will have difficulty conducting compliance
checks regarding the number of visitors to this particular property because the property
cannot be seen from nearby roads. STA properties in Boreen Point are quite regularly seen
to have more occupants than allowed.
• I believe that if this application is successful it will increase the risk of wildfire to the
community of Boreen Point as well as increases risk to the occupants, because of the
following reasons;
The only escape route from the property is through thick native bushland.
The vegetation on the property consists of Eucalypt Woodland and Melaleuca Forest. Both
of these forest types consist of fuel that is considered volatile.
The property lies within the Noosa Shire Council Bush Fire prone areas.
To the North and West, the property adjoins a section of State Land that then adjoins on to
National Park. There are no Fire Control Lines that break up this band of fire prone
vegetation.
• I believe that if this application is approved it will set a dangerous precedent for future STA
applications for Rural properties that adjoin Low Density Residential properties, and will be
difficult for NSC to back away from.
Steve Jardine