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

Table 29 Visitor Accommodation approvals NP2006

            Approval type                   Number of            Number of          Rooms / Beds / sites /
                                            approvals            dwellings                 cabin

 Visitor Accommodation Type 1 Home                       8                     8
 hosted

 Visitor Accommodation Type 2                            2                                         40 sites
 Caravan Park

 Visitor Accommodation Type 3 Rural                      9                    30             8 guest rooms

 Visitor Accommodation Type 4                           12                   278           263 hostel beds
 Conventional
                                                                   (including 20                 24 cabins
                                                                         refurbs)

 TOTAL                                                  31                   316                       335



Visitor Accommodation & Residential approvals
Two approvals were issued where both Visitor Accommodation Type 4 Conventional and
Multiple Housing Type 4 were issued allowing for both permanent residential occupation and
short-term accommodation.
Table 30 Mixed visitor accommodation and residential approvals NP2006

                        Approval type                               Number of              Number of
                                                                    approvals              dwellings

 Visitor Accommodation Type 4 Conventional & Multiple Housing                       2                   13
 Type 4



 TOTAL                                                                              2                   13



2.6.6 Zone provisions
Prior to the 2006 Planning scheme, urban residential land was either Village Residential,
Residential Single Unit, Residential Low Density, Residential Medium Density, Residential
High Density or Special Residential. Despite six residential zones many resorts, caravan
parks, group housing development, relocatable home parks, aged care and retirement housing
were developed through “spot rezonings” to Special Facilities and subject to a specific plan of
development. This was not uncommon for Queensland Planning schemes of that era, but led
to very ad hoc zoning maps.
The application of zones in NP2006 was based on the 1997 Strategic Plan Preferred Dominant
Land Use designations. It took a broader (smoother) approach and went from 20 landuse
zones down to 14. The myriad of scattered residential and visitor accommodation
developments within the Special Facilities zone were typically allocated the Attached Housing
Zone, or in the case of key visitor centres like Hastings Street, Gympie Terrace, Sunshine
Beach and the Noosa North Shore resort site, the Visitor Mixed Use Zone. It was not the
intention to retain a site by site speckled pattern to zonings, despite the established land use
pattern having such characteristics.
Given the continued mix of residents and visitors, with many sites having enshrined use rights
for both, there was considerable blurring of the line between permanent residential
neighbourhoods and visitor accommodation, particularly as most accommodation consisted of

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