2020-12-17 Ordinary Meeting Agenda

ORDINARY MEETING AGENDA                                                                                             17 DECEMBER 2020


5.4       Monitoring Process

In adopting the new planning scheme in July 2020 Council also resolved to monitor over the next 2
years the effectiveness of the provisions of the Noosa Plan 2020 in enabling the delivery of housing
choice and affordability to meet the diverse needs of the community, specifically housing for those
in our community on low incomes, with special needs or in identified groups in need of community
and affordable housing.

The keeping of records on availability and cost of housing, as well as quantum of community housing
is assisting in this monitoring process and will continue over the next couple of years.

6. Council’s Land Assets

While it is not proposed that Council should become a housing provider, there would seem to be
opportunity to review existing Council land assets and look for opportunities to partner with
established affordable housing providers. A similar exercise was conducted by Unitywater, leading
to the identification of a number of sites across their jurisdiction. Council’s property section do
routinely look at underutilised land assets for various strategic purposes with housing being one of
them.

In addition to Council owned lands there are sometimes State lands or unformed road reserves that
appear to offer potential.



Acknowledgement

I would like to acknowledge the support of staff in preparing this Mayoral Minute and in particular,
the excellent research undertaken by our Principal Strategic Planner.




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Cr Clare Stewart                                                              Date




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