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

      Development is encouraged that caters for industries with high economic yield and low
       environmental impacts, and where sustainable practices are the norm.
      Smart, innovative and sustainable businesses and industries are promoted and
       provided   for,   which     are  responsive   to   new     technologies  and
       changing market conditions.
      Noosa's diversified economy is underpinned by a complementary mix of business
       activities that support new technologies, new enterprises, new ways of doing business
       and flexible work arrangements. Opportunities for affordable workspaces, convenient
       work from home enterprises, shop-top housing and co-working spaces are
       encouraged. This includes providing a variety of business spaces that allow for natural
       growth from home-based businesses to small premises and then to larger premises.
      Co-location and industry clusters with flexible shared floor space and enterprise
       precincts are encouraged as they provide an opportunity to create hubs of creativity
       and support new business needs of the future…
       Visitor Centres - Hastings Street, Gympie Terrace, Noosa North Shore, Sunshine
       Beach and Noosa Marina
          1. Visitor Centres are located at significant key tourist locations in Noosa Shire
             and include a mix of uses such as accommodation, dining in the form of cafes
             and restaurants as well as complementary retail and leisure services to meet
             the needs of tourists.
          2. Hastings Street, Noosa Heads, functions as the major visitor centre for Noosa
             Shire. It is predominantly mixed use and caters for national and international
             tourists as well as the Noosa community and is the location of a number of
             significant festivals and events for Noosa Shire. The extent of business
             premises in Hastings Street remains limited. It includes a concentration of
             entertainment and dining uses such as cafes, bars and restaurants. These offer
             a diversity of entertainment for visitors and locals, as well as provide evening
             and night activation to the area. The expansion of, or increase in, the number
             of retail tenancies is not encouraged. Small intimate destination shops that offer
             unique goods including locally made or designed products are desirable.
          3. Gympie Terrace, Noosaville, is also a major visitor centre for Noosa providing
             a    more     family-focused     environment     adjacent    to   the    Noosa
             River foreshore for visitors as well as the Noosa community. The centre has a
             mix of uses including accommodation as well as local cafes, restaurants, leisure
             and recreation services focused on the river.
          4. Noosa North Shore is the gateway to the Great Sandy National Park and the
             World Heritage-listed Fraser Island. Much of the area of Noosa North Shore is
             dedicated to conservation and access is by a ferry across the Noosa River as
             it is not intended for a bridge to be constructed. Development is secondary to
             and dominated by the open space setting with a very low intensity and scale.
             Accommodation and services for visitors are available in the Tourist
             Accommodation zone and the Recreation and Open Space zone. There is no
             permanent residential living occurring in these zones.
          5. Duke Street, Sunshine Beach and Noosa Marina offer a local level of visitor
             services with Sunshine Beach providing some accommodation, restaurants
             and convenience shops servicing visitors and the Sunshine Beach community.
             Noosa Marina has a river transport focus with some associated retail and
             restaurants and cafes with no accommodation uses.




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Noosa Council Monitoring Report 2022/23