Crackerjack - Other Change Planning Report

                                              Acceptable
     Performance Outcomes                                                 Proposed Other Change
                                               Outcomes
                                                                    venue.
 PO2                                  No acceptable                 The owner/operators of
 Development supports the             outcome provided              Crackerjack have signed a 90-
 open space and recreation                                          year licence agreement with
 needs of the Noosa Shire                                           Cooroy Community Bowls Club
 community and increases the                                        (refer to Appendix C) granting the
 range and diversity of                                             club exclusive use the green at
 recreation opportunities                                           set times during the week to
 available.                                                         conduct competitions and events.

                                                                    This licence in addition to a wall
                                                                    within the venue dedicated with
                                                                    memorabilia from the Coroy
                                                                    Community Bowls Club is an
                                                                    honest attempt of the applicant
                                                                    maintaining the Outdoor Sport
                                                                    and Recreational use component
                                                                    on the site.
 PO3                                  No acceptable                 As noted above in this planning
 Development maintains the            outcome provided              report, several bowls clubs on the
 primary recreation function of                                     Sunshine Coast in recent years
 land and maintains the                                             have ceased operations, primarily
 ongoing provision of recreation                                    due to declining memberships
 and open space land.                                               and financial challenges.

                                                                    Without the introduction of
                                                                    alternative and complementary
                                                                    uses the revenue generated by
                                                                    the Outdoor Sport and
                                                                    Recreation use is not enough to
                                                                    make the bowls club financially
                                                                    viable.
 PO4                                  No acceptable                 Crackerjack provides a relaxed,
 Uses are of a type, scale and        outcome provided              social environment where people
 intensity consistent with the                                      of all ages can play socially or
 recreation needs of the                                            competitive lawn bowls via the
 community, locational                                              Cooroy Community Bowls Club.
 characteristics and supporting
 infrastructure.                                                    No additional use area is
                                                                    proposed, and the introduced use
                                                                    (small-batch distilling) is small and
                                                                    ancillary in scale.
 PO5                                  No acceptable                 The ancillary small-batch distillery
 Community uses, clubs, indoor        outcome provided              and existing restaurant use
 sport and recreation and small                                     financially support the Outdoor
 scale ancillary food and drink                                     Sport and Recreation use (bowls
 outlets support the ongoing                                        club).
 safe, comfortable and efficient
 operation of recreation and                                        The bowls club has had numerous
 open space activities.                                             operators including Cooroy Bowls
                                                                    Club, Cooroy RSL & Citizens
                                                                    Memorial Bowls Club, Saw & Mill;
                                                                    and now GOOD MATES
                                                                    PROPERTY PTY LTD – indicative of
                                                                    the financial challenges the
                                                                    current operators are
                                                                    experiencing.
 PO8                                  AO8.1                         Without the inclusion of

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