Cover Letter - Minor Change Application · 131999.982846.3

Part E of the State Planning Policy

The current State Planning Policy (SPP) commenced on 3 July 2017. The applicable State interests
relating to development assessment are set out in Part E of the document and are under five broad
themes. The Noosa Plan 2020 appropriately integrates all of the SPP provisions except for Natural
hazards, risk and resilience - coastal hazards - in part. The development in the erosion prone area, as
shown on the SPP interactive mapping system and consequently is subject to assessment against the
assessment benchmarks – natural hazards, risk and resilience within the State Planning Policy.




Figure 5 – Erosion Prone Area Mapping


 Applicable Benchmark                                 Comment
 Bushfire, flood, landslide, storm tide inundation, and erosion prone areas outside the coastal
 management district:
 (3)    Development other than that assessed          Complies.
        against (1) above, avoids natural hazard
        areas, or where it is not possible to avoid   The entire site is located within a mapped
        the natural hazard area, development          erosion prone area and it is not possible to
        mitigates the risks to people and             avoid the hazard area.
        property to an acceptable or tolerable
        level.
                                                      The proposal involves a lift addition which is
                                                      contained within the curtilage of the existing
                                                      dwelling. The proposed building works will not
                                                      involve any groundwork taking place within the
                                                      erosion prone area and will not introduce any