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

                          ATTACHMENT 4 - MCU21/0110 - OFFICER REPORT 7 NOVEMBER 2023
            PLANNING & ENVIRONMENT COMMITTEE MEETING                                      7 NOVEMBER 2023


             5.4     FURTHER REPORT - MCU21/0110 - APPLICATION FOR MATERIAL CHANGE OF USE -
                     BAR, FOOD AND DRINK OUTLET, OUTDOOR SPORT AND RECREATION, RESORT
                     COMPLEX AT 61 NOOSA SPRINGS DRIVE, NOOSA HEADS.



             Author                    Development Assessment Manager, Patrick Murphy
                                       Development & Regulation Department
             Index                     ECM / Application / MCU21/0110
             Attachments               1.   ATTACHMENT 1 – Proposed Conditions
                                       2.   ATTACHMENT 2 – Development Assessment Manager’s Report
                                       3.   ATTACHMENT 3 – Proposal Plans
                                       4.   ATTACHMENT 4 – Applicant’s submission




            EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
            A report for this application was presented to Council at the Planning and Environment
            Committee on 11 July 2023, the application 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 was to approve the application on the basis that the odour impacts
            had been satisfactorily addressed and matters relating to bushfire, ecology, carparking and built
            form had been suitably addressed.


            The matter was referred to the General Committee 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 for refusal.


            On 19 July the applicant stopped the decision-making period until 29 September 2023. As this
            was done 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.


            The applicant has not amended the layout of the proposed development however has provided
            several written submissions which have 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 remains in support of the application, it is 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.



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