planning report

The development avoids any adverse impacts on the amenity of adjoining premises, including visual
and acoustic qualities with a suitable setback to the bowling green to the east. The proposal also
provides a mix between business uses and upper level employee housing to create a vibrant mixed-
use development with opportunities for both day and night time casual surveillance. Overall, the
development is designed to match in with the surrounding land use pattern and ensure the existing
amenity is not diminished in the area - consistent with the relevant Specific and Overall Outcomes
for the Cooroy Locality.

4.2.2 Laneways

The Specific Outcomes of the Locality Code seeks for commercial lots with two frontages to a street
front and laneway provide for pedestrian movement, maintain a sense of exploration, as well as
commercial or service access to the rear of properties. New uses should not diminish the ability of
laneways to a) relieve traffic on streets; b) provide convenient and safe rear access to premises; and
c) add to the heritage character of Cooroy.

The proposal reduces the number of existing accesses from the laneway, however does not diminish
the ability of the road to relieve traffic on streets, with the associated traffic report concluding that the
residential uses accessing the lane will not cause any traffic impacts. New landscaping and curb &
channelling is proposed within the laneway to respect the existing formation. The design also allows
for future use of the laneway, subject to Council’s future intentions and surrounding development
pattern.

The design makes the best use of this laneway by reducing the amount of traffic using the road, but
also allows for future exploration opportunities. By setting the building back 2m from the current
property boundary, the laneway will continue to be used for relieving traffic on streets and providing
for convenient and safe rear access and garbage servicing to premises. The design is consistent
with the relevant Outcomes of The Noosa Plan pertaining to mixed use developments adjoining
laneways.

4.2.3 Setbacks

The following table identifies the setback requirements for the Attached Housing and Business
Centre zones.

                              Attached Housing              Business Centre         Proposal
 Frontage – Diamond Lane      6m                            No setback required     2m
 Frontage – Opal Street       6m                            No setback required     No setback
 Frontage – Elm Street        6m                            No setback required     No setback
 Side – East to the bowling   Half the building height in   None specified          No setback to toilets and bin
 green                        metres                                                storage area.


Although not strictly complying with the Attached Housing zone setback requirements, the site
adjoins three road frontages. Across Diamond Lane and Pearl Streets is existing Business Centre
zoned land to the north and south, and setbacks should consider the requirements of the Business
Centre zone to activate street frontages all fronting Elm Street.

Existing building setbacks surrounding the site include a nil setback to a 5m high wall across
Diamond laneway associated with the petrol station; a nil setback is also established across Opal
Street to the commercial shops, which includes parking in the road reserve; the adjoining sports club
is built with no setback to Diamond Lane and 3m to Opal Street; and the existing petrol station
canopies to the north and south are built out to the Elm Street frontage.




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