PM Submission Object - Peregian Beach Community Assoc Inc(Barry Cotterell) - Peregian Beach Community Association - MCU16/0153 & REC16/0041

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                     PBCAI queries how many times the developer can dedicate land to Council in
                     order to be given an approval without actually assigning it to Council? PBCAI
                     also notes that dedicating this land to Council will to reduce the amount of
                     rateable land.

                     14. Relevant period of approval

                     As described in Section 1, the first development application by this developer
                     for this site was lodged in 2007 and it received the first approval for
                     developing accommodation in 2010. Now in 2017, the developer is seeking
                     another approval to build, not budget visitor accommodation but, in the main,
                     permanent resident accommodation. In the intervening years, despite having
                     approval the developer has not constructed any accommodation units on the
                     site and has removed the 68 beds approved in the visitor hostel. The
                     developer, therefore, since 2007, has deprived visitors to Peregian Beach of
                     the low cost visitor accommodation that the caravan park provided.

                     If Council were to approve this DA in any form, PBCAI requests that the
                     period of approval be reasonable but as short as possible and that the staging
                     be reversed to provide for the Hotel/Hostel to be exclusively for visitor
                     accommodation with the possible exception of one or two
                     manager/caretaker’s units.

                     PBCAI also requests that the developer be informed that the period of
                     approval will not be extended and that permanent accommodation will never
                     be permitted.


                     15. Conclusion

                     In summary the proposed development significantly conflicts with the Noosa
                     Plan, for the following reasons:

                              The DA proposes building on Open Space Recreational zoned land a
                               development which is totally inconsistent in a multitude of ways with
                               the Noosa Plan;
                              The DA raises significant environmental concerns especially with
                               regard to the watercourse and wetlands;
                              the proposed development does not offer visitors the expected range of
                               experiences and accommodation types expected for the land and the
                               development is not consistent with Part 3 - Desired Environmental
                               Outcome (j) Tourism;
                              with respect to the Eastern Beaches Locality Code:
                                   o the proposed development does not protect and retain low
                                      cost accommodation consistent with maintaining a diversity of
                                      accommodation types for visitors to the locality and therefore is
                                      not consistent with overall outcome (h);
                                   o the proposed development does not provide for Visitor
                                      Accommodation Type 4 Conventional to be located in close




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