Town Planning Assessment Report

        5.3.2. Level of Assessment and Assessment Requirements

The site is a located within the Rural Zone under the Noosa Plan 2020. Pursuant to Table 5.5.13 of the planning
scheme, a Dwelling House is ‘accepted development subject to requirements’.


        5.3.3. Assessment Benchmarks

Table 5.5.13- Rural Zone

Pursuant to Table 5.5.13 of the Noosa Plan 2020, the proposed building works are accepted development
subject to the following requirements:-

Table 6.2.1
 Requirements for Accepted Development
 Rural Zone Code
                                             AO2.4, AO7.1, AO7.2, AO7.3, AO8.4, AO8.5, AO12, AO13 and
                                             AO15 of the Rural Zone Code

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


An assessment against the abovementioned applicable codes has revealed that the development is
compliant with, or can be conditioned to comply with, each. The pertinent issues arising out of an assessment
against each of the codes are discussed below.

 Rural Zone Code
 Performance Outcomes                 Acceptable Outcomes                    Compliance
 PO2                                  AO2.4                                  PO2 - Performance Outcome
 Development does not result in the   No sensitive land use is established
 loss or diminished productive        closer than 200 metres from land on    The proposal would establish a
 capacity of Agricultural Land        an adjacent property included in the   new dwelling house closer than
 Conservation Area.                   Rural zone and mapped                  200m from land on an adjacent on
                                      as Agricultural Land Conservation      an adjacent rural zoned property
                                      Area as shown in Agricultural Land     mapped as agricultural land
                                      Overlap Maps in schedule 2.            conservation area and
                                                                             consequently not achieve AO2.4 of
                                                                             the code.




                                                                             Despite the non-compliance with
                                                                             AO2.4, it is considered that the
                                                                             proposed dwelling would not result
                                                                             in the loss or diminished productive
                                                                             capacity of Agricultural Land
                                                                             Conservation Area and

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