3365 261022 report · RAL19/0014.01

3      Conclusion
Noosa town plan review proposed to rezone 30 Pottery Street from Detached
Housing to Rural Residential. Southern neighbours proposed Low Density
Residential. Reasoning assumed as Biodiversity considerations.

The applicant, having built the residence and occupied the land for then 43 years,
desired to develop her land to benefit family members as always intended.

Application properly made May 2019 under then Town Plan for layout preferred,
initially small scale but significantly intensified to accord with Council requirements.

The decision notice for RAL19/0014 issued by Council in October 2021.

This report indicates development has substantially commenced, with significant
costs met by the applicant. Construction delayed due to resident landowner ailing
and passing away under at home care, consultant industry shortages and lack of
availability, and review processes at Local Government and Service Authority level
being severely stretched and responses demonstrably slow.

The biodiversity mapping over the subject property emanates from aerial imagery
and has been found incorrect or misleading upon ground proofing. The reasoning
behind Council’s 2020 Noosa Plan rezoning of the land is questionable.

Very tall trees with dense canopy are the reason for the broad brushed biodiversity
mapping. These trees, close to built township lots, are of course a mapped bushfire
hazard. Approvals are already in place for their removal as part of this development.

Water and Sewer connection to the subject property was provided under Pomona
Infill Schemes. What was then considered Priority Infrastructure Area was later
removed from the PIA, despite the connected services, no reasoning provided. This
development will utilise existing infrastructure to its maximum potential.

Commonwealth and State Governments are making concerted effort to provide
housing stock addressing the current acknowledged Housing Crisis. Noosa Council
has recently considered specific targets for future housing, mostly by facilitating
medium and high density units. A needs analysis has not been completed in this
report as obvious, low density housing stock remains in great demand.

Council has the opportunity to provide additional low density style, fully serviced
allotments, without impact on existing infrastructure and by negating a documented
bushfire hazard, by extending the currency of RAL19/0014.




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