2022-11-14 GC Agenda - Item 4 - Attachment 1 - Short Term Accommodation Monitoring Report 2022

        recreation or dining facilities and includes an ancillary dwelling unit for onsite manager.
        The use includes a guesthouse, visitor hostel, motel, resort and serviced rooms, but
        does not include Visitor accommodation Type 1 Home hosted or Type 3 Rural as
        separately defined.


Appendix 6 Negative affects of short term accommodation and
online platforms report extracts

Over tourism – the excessive growth of visitors leading to overcrowding, where residents
suffer the consequences of temporary and seasonal tourism peaks with permanent changes
to lifestyle, access to amenities and general wellbeing. Ultimately, the level of tourism becomes
unsustainable as residents and workers leave, the cost of products and services are too high,
the tourism reputation is qualitatively decremented, and the area can no longer support the
level of tourism.
The Noosa shire may not yet be experiencing over tourism, as the benefits of tourism arguably
still outweigh the problems caused by the rapid rise of short-term rental accommodation.
However, some of the key indicators of this phenomenon are clearly apparent, and the
legislative, planning and regulatory environment has not yet recognised or adopted necessary
limitations to tourism expansion.
Tourism gentrification – occurs where neighbourhoods are transformed for the needs of
consumers and visitors, and residents are displaced, particularly lower income earners relying
on affordable accommodation.
This is occurring in Noosa, as tourism driven gentrification is supported by the facilitation of a
rapid rise in consumer uptake of short-term rental of properties within residential
neighbourhoods. The actual gentrification is driven by both the dynamics of the housing market
(increasing prices and reduced affordability) and the changing nature and use of
neighbourhoods.
Reduced residential livability –is described as the benefit enjoyed from both the private
external space which is part of the private home (private residential amenity), and common
areas of public space in close proximity to a private home, such as the adjacent pavement,
kerb, street parking and road reserve (public residential amenity).
As property owners leverage the online accommodation phenomenon, and exposure of these
opportunities to tourists and visitors rapidly increases, the high quality residential livability of
the shire is arguably being reduced (in specific localities) by the infiltration of tourists into inner
urban residential areas.
Private residential amenity –is achieved where individuals carry out typical household and
leisure activities, such as gardening, drying clothes, playing with children, dining, sleeping,
working from home and so on, without interference. Low density areas and rural settlement
areas have enjoyed a high level of private residential amenity in Noosa.
The increased utilisation of private homes in residential areas for short-term rental
accommodation is arguably interfering with, and reducing the private residential amenity of
Noosa’s residents due to noise, loss of accessibility and loss of privacy…
…if a home within a residential neighbourhood is occupied for a short-term stay by tourists,
ambient noise is likely to be generated consistently regardless of the week or weekend day.
Accessibility can be affected due to increased vehicle usage on the street, with street parking
also impacted, particularly where multiple visitors co-occupy a short-term property.
There may also be higher ambient noise levels from daytime traffic that previously wasn’t
occurring. Of particular impact on private residential amenity is the rising occurrence of party
houses, which are entire homes rented through Airbnb that are being consistently used for
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