FURTHER REPORT - Planning & Environment Committee 6 May 2025 MCU21/0110

PLANNING AND ENVIRONMENT COMMITTEE MEETING REPORT                                     11 JUNE 2024


noting the traffic consultant has reviewed the proposed car parking and is satisfied that it
adequately meets the needs of the proposed resort.
Accordingly, the officer recommendation remains in support of the application.
CONSULTATION
Referral Agencies
Not applicable
Internal Council Referrals
The application was forwarded to the following internal Council officers:
     Senior Environment Officer
     Coordinator Development Engineering
Other Referrals
The application was forwarded to the following external experts for review and/or comment:
     Bushfire
     Hydraulic Engineer
     Traffic consultant
     Acoustic consultant
     Odour consultant
CONCLUSION & REASONS FOR DECISION
A report for this application was presented to Council at the Planning and Environment Committee
on 11 July 2023 for an application which seeks to develop a 106-room hotel on land within Noosa
Springs.
The report addressed a range of issues including the sites split zoning, the potential odour impacts of
the nearby sewage treatment plant, bushfire risk, ecology, carparking and built form. The
officer’s recommendation sought to approve the application.
The matter was referred to the General Meeting dated 17 July 2023 at which time a motion was put
forward to refuse the application. The motion was successful, and the application was
recommended to be refused.
On 19 July the applicant stopped the decision-making period until 29 September 2023, as this was
done prior to prior to the Ordinary Meeting of 20 July 2023 Council was not able to finalise a
decision on the application. The decision-making period recommenced on 29 September 2023.
A Further Report was prepared for the Planning and Environment Committee meeting on 7
November 2023, due to the significance of the matter was referred to the General Meeting of 13
November 2023.
At that time the applicant had not amended the layout of the proposed development however
provided several written submissions which included an analysis of the submissions made during
the notification period, a letter from a solicitor reviewing the proposed grounds of refusal, and a
further letter from the applicant’s planning consultant seeking to justify grounds to support the
development.
The officer recommendation remained in support of the application, it was recommended that
condition 13 of the original recommendation, which required guests to be advised of the potential
for odour from the sewage treatment plant, be deleted. At that time, the grounds of refusal proposed at
the General Committee on July 17, 2023, were reviewed by a planning solicitor. Accordingly,
updated grounds of refusal were included in the report.
On 13 November 2023 the applicant made an Other Change to the application to include an
extension to the existing clubhouse. The change was an Other Change as it introduced a new land
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