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

3.2.4.4 Development Permits for other tourist / visitor accommodation
The following MCU approvals were issued for other forms of tourist accommodation as at 31
August 2022.


Table 37 MCU approval for other tourist accommodation NP2020

 Approval type        Location    Number of            Number of       Beds / sites
                                  approvals            Dwellings

 Nature based         Pinbarren                    1               3                             3
 tourism

 Tourist park         Cooroy                                                               20 sites
                                                                         (new approval but existing
                                                                                              site)



At the time of writing this report, additional commercial tourist accommodation projects are
proposed and at different stages within the development assessment system:
       a 106 room 5 star boutique hotel resort is being considered by Council at 61 Noosa
        Springs Dr Noosa Heads;
       a 178 room and 12 suite hotel and 15 x 3 bedroom villa application (Callile Hotel) has
        been lodged at 3-7 Serenity Close, Noosa Heads as a change application to an expired
        approval;
       a 16 self contained eco cabin application for short term accommodation at 142 Noosa
        Drive Noosa Heads as part of RACV is currently at information request stage; and
       preliminary discussions had taken place on the redevelopment of 203-207 Gympie
        Terrace for a 49 room hotel, conference room and commercial uses.


These proposals support unmet demand for hotel style and 5 star accommodation in Noosa
Shire and may result in approximately 345 additional hotel rooms in Noosa Heads and
Noosaville and 15 luxury style 3 bedroom villas and 16 eco cabins.


3.2.5 Residential housing approvals
A number of residential approvals for a range of permanent dwellings (excluding dwelling
houses) were issued under NP2020 as at 31 August 2022. Of particular note was the uptake
of the small dwelling bonus gross floor area provisions under NP2020 producing 188 small
dwellings (<100m2) in the residential zones. 19 small dwelling were also approved in the centre
zones where dwellings are limited to small dwellings. Also noted was approval for 3 multiple
dwellings from visitor only occupancy to permanent occupancy.




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