07/2238 - MCU - Service amd Utility Tpye 3 - Tower [As Published] · 132007.2238

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MCU for Noosa South, Lot 15 on SP177649 INTERNATIONAL

 

Noosa Plan 2006 was prepared in accordance with the Integrated Planning Act 1997 (IPA),
as a framework for managing development.

Part 3 — Desired Environmental Outcomes Noosa Plan 2006 aims to produce ecologically
sustainable development outcomes by considering the influences on ecological
sustainability. Noosa Plan DEO sets out in a number of primary land uses and set out the
desirable outcomes for each use, including community implications.

It is important that each DEO had regard to another; however this development
application has made particularly consideration to part |) Infrastructure and Services.

« The proposed telecommunications facility will improve and provide high quality
mobile phone and broadband coverage to the Noosa Heads and Noosa Springs.

With regards to Community Implications of Infrastructure & Services the following points
have been considered:-

« Coastal urban residents and visitors expect a certain level of infrastructure and
servicing, which includes power, telecommunications, garbage collection, running
water and flush toilets. — The infroduction of the proposed telecommunications
facility will improve mobile coverage to the Noosa Heads area, while also provide
coverage to areas within Noosa Springs that currently experience no network
coverage.

« Broadband telecommunications infrastructure allows people to work and study
from home and access goods and services over the Internet. The introduction of a
new telecommunications facility at the subject site willimprove and expand 3G
coverage {mobile broadband}, which will have benefits to local community and
businesses.

e While telecommunication facilities are very important, towers and other
installations are not located in visually prominent locations. The location of the
proposed telecommunications tower and the specific design has been selected as
not cause and detrimental harm to the visual amenity of the area and is not
considered to be in a prominent location.

§.5.1 Application Requirements

Part 2 of the Noosa Plan 2006 defines a telecommunications facility in a Primary Use as
“Infrastructure Use". Within this Primary Use the land uses are broken down into Use Class —
of “Service & Utility’, and then divided into three “Use” types. This development
application is considered to be Type 3 - Tower.

"Type 3 Tower “

The use of premises for a tower, antennas or mast and supporting shelter or equipment, in
the provision or supply of electricity or telecommunications. The use excludes facilities
deemed to be "Low Impact Facilities” under the Telecommunication (Low Impact Facility]
Determination Act 1997, and excludes power poles. The use includes a
telecommunication tower, wind turbine, high voltage transmission lines (110kv or greater)

 

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