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

impacts on residential amenity and sense of community were the primary planning issues that
emerged during the preparation of NP2020.
The Issues Paper, complaints and public consultation forums provided insights into the issues
around short-term accommodation for consideration in the draft NP2020.
Being a difficult issue to address, balance and solve, two draft versions of NP2020 were
publicly notified in 2019, with the second draft responding to public consultation issues on the
first draft.


2.8.1 First draft NP2020
The first draft NP2020 (first draft) was publicly notified in February 2019 for a 12 week period.
In an attempt to concentrate and contain short-term accommodation within locations deemed
to be popular with visitors, the first draft NP2020 proposed a Short Stay Area Map within the
Low, Medium and High Density Residential zones where short-term accommodation for
visitors was permitted, without planning approval. The Short Stay Area Map is identified as
Map 11 to this report and contained in Appendix 7.
The introduction of a Tourist Accommodation zone additionally identified large portions of the
coastal urban area for visitors and visitor accommodation. Other provisions were also included
for a range of visitor accommodation types such as home hosted accommodation, nature
based tourism in various zones including the Rural Residential and Rural zones in the
hinterland.
The whole of Noosa Shire was also identified as a “party house restriction area” under the
Planning Act 2016 making a statement about the importance and protection of residential
amenity.
Details on the first draft of NP2020 are contained in Appendix 7.


2.8.1.1 Public consultation issues
Public consultation on the first draft NP2020 yielded approximately 940 submissions. The
issue most frequently addressed by submitters was short-term accommodation (376
submissions). Property investors and businesses reliant on this income stream made up the
bulk of these submissions together with a large number from residents.
This approach raised various concerns regarding landuse equity across the Low Density
Residential zone in particular, with some parts of the zone being able to short stay let without
planning approval and others requiring impact assessment. Concentrated growth in dwellings
used for short-term accommodation within the map area and the erosion of residential amenity
and communities, housing stock and housing affordability were also key concerns from
existing residents. The purpose and intent of residential zones, being for permanent residents,
was also brought into question. Residents were also concerned about the Short Stay Area
Map “legitimising” existing and future short-term accommodation within the area.
Property investors and the real estate property industries lobbied for growth in the use of
dwellings for short-term accommodation and the rights of all property owners to short stay let
their property. Smaller settlements like Teewah and Boreen Point, both with strong histories
of holiday cottages felt slighted by their exclusion from the Short Stay Area Map. Equity and
disparity in the zoning was a major issue in the first draft and proposed map.
On further review of the issues raised during consultation and other planning matters, there
were a number of concerns with the first draft including:
      how potentially significant growth in short-term accommodation and visitor numbers
       impacted community and infrastructure and whether this was sustainable or desirable;


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Noosa Council Monitoring Report 2022/23