2017-04-11 Planning & Environment Committee Agenda

PLANNING & ENVIRONMENT COMMITTEE MEETING AGENDA   11 APRIL 2017




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PLANNING & ENVIRONMENT COMMITTEE MEETING AGENDA                                                    11 APRIL 2017

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                 Beach Road Holiday Homes is a development of 48 detached dwellings within a gated
                 community located at 90 Beach Road, Noosa North Shore. Although initially approved as
                 short term visitor accommodation “Eco-cabins”, the dwellings are in fact mostly upscale,
                 individually designed two storey houses. The Beach Road Holiday Home development is
                 located in the Visitor Mixed Use Zone, which does not permit permanent occupation.
                 Accordingly, Condition 6 of the current approval (2006/2237) states that “the Eco-cabins
                 shall be for short term visitor accommodation only, with no person permitted to occupy the
                 Eco-cabins for the purposes of permanent accommodation in accordance with the Noosa
                 North Shore Eco-Tourism Portal Development Code”. The first houses were established in
                 2006, with subsequent stages constructed around 2012.
                 At present, the 48 houses within Beach Road Holiday Homes fall into the following rental
                 scheme categories:
                    e   22 dwellings participate in a centrally administered, formal rental pool:

                    e   6 dwellings are privately rented out by respective property owners; and

                    e   20 dwellings do not participate in a rental scheme and are used exclusively by
                        property owners as private holiday homes.
                 The owners of 19 properties within the Beach Road Holiday Homes collectively have
                 submitted a Material Change of Use of Premise (MCU) application to allow the option of
                 permanent residency within the estate. Of these, the MCU application concerns:
                    e   four houses from the visitor rental pool;

                    e   five houses being privately let; and

                    e   the remaining ten do not currently participate in any visitor rental scheme.
                 Figure 1.1 shows the distribution of the 19 properties subject to the MCU application.

                 1.1     Purpose of Report and Methodology
                 Noosa Council issued an Information Request (dated 26 July 2016) which seeks:
                    1) Please provide further information addressing the impact of removing visitor
                        accommodation from the visitor accommodation pool (existing and future) in the
                        Visitor Mixed zone and the locality, particularly given the Noosa North Shore locality
                        has limited visitor accommodation.

                    2) Please provide an economic report that addresses but is not limited to the economic
                        impacts (risks/effects) associated with the conversion of visitor accommodation to
                        permanent accommodation in this locality.

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                 Noosa North Shore Needs Assessment
                 16017 Rev 0 Draft
                 11 November 2016

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