2016-02-02 I&S Committee - Item 4 - Attachment 1 - Noosa Traffic Study

supermarket, primary and secondary schools (both State and private), and other facilities, so
will continue to have a good level of self-containment. While there will be some level of
demand for connection between Peregian Springs and Noosa Shire, particularly the Noosa
Beaches, the majority of external Peregian Springs traffic would be oriented in the south to the
more extensive facilities in the more heavily populated areas of Sunshine Coast Regional
Council. For this reason, it has not been considered necessary to allow for specific additional
growth on Noosa Roads, as a direct result of growth in Peregian Springs, over and above the
broad rate of growth adopted in this study.

In order to indicate predicted 2036 traffic conditions during holiday and non-holiday periods,
assessment has been undertaken at each intersection firstly using the factor of 1.18 to inflate
2015 non-holiday conditions to represent 2036 non-holiday periods, and then the further factors
depicted in Figure 3 for zones A, B, and C have been used to represent 2036 holiday periods.
The overall factors applied to the 2015 non-holiday conditions to represent the 2036 holiday /
event periods are as follows:
                        Zone A (1.18/0.65)       1.82 factor
                        Zone B (1.18/0.85)       1.39 factor
                        Zone C (1.18/0.95)       1.24 factor

In addition to population growth, there also needs to be allowance made for some expansion of
the commercial areas of Noosa. Although given the low population growth projections, it would
be expected that growth in commercial areas and employment growth would be similarly low,
and to a large extent taken into account by allowance for population growth, as the growth in
commercial areas is typically to service population growth, unless an existing centre changes
size and form sufficiently to increase its attractiveness to areas beyond the study area.

Specific commercial area expansions that have been included in this assessment to 2036, in
terms of impacts on the roads in the vicinity of those developments, are as follows:

(i)         There is an approval for an 11,500 sq m “Masters Home Improvement” retail
            showroom development within area E5 of the Shire Business Centre.

(ii)        In the absence of any further information, this study has made an allowance for a total
            additional 12,000 sq m GFA of office area in the Shire Business Centre to the year
            2036.




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