MCU21/0194.01 – APPLICATION FOR AN OTHER CHANGE TO A DEVELOPMENT APPROVAL FOR A ROADSIDE STALL TO INCLUDE A FOOD AND DRINK OUTLET AT 201 MARY RIVER RD, COOROY (Referred from Planning & Environment Committee dated 7 November 2023 - Item 5.2) · ATTACHMENT 2 – OFFICER’S REPORT

      (i)   Cooroy town centre remains compact with expansion of retail and commercial functions
            limited to land included within the District Centre zone.
Section 7.2.2.3 Performance Outcomes
      PO1
      Development enhances the role of Cooroy as the largest centre in the Noosa Hinterland,
      providing a wide range of business and employment services, recreation facilities,
      community services, housing choice and a limited range of visitor services.
      PO4
      The visual amenity surrounding the major road network and entry is protected and enhanced.
      PO8
      Cooroy town centre functions as a district centre with a wide range of business and
      community functions, servicing Cooroy and surrounding hinterland communities.
The Cooroy Local Plan Code consistently reflects the planning scheme’s strategic framework to
limit development to within the urban boundary, achieve a compact town centre and protect the
landscape character of surrounding rural land, including the visual amenity of the major road
network (which includes Mary River Road). It is not intended to permit urban activities in rural
areas to spread out along the major road network that should otherwise be in the town centre. The
proposed food and drink outlet use interrupts the landscape character and visual amenity of the
area, with its array of signage, often multiple cars parked in the road reserve and several structures
located close to the front boundary.




                       Figure 7 – Photo taken looking west along Mary River Road

3.3.3 Zone Code
The site is zoned Rural under the Noosa Plan 2020, with lands zoned rural intended to support
rural activities.
Section 6.8.3.2 Overall Outcomes
      (a)   The establishment of a wide range of rural activities is facilitated, including animal
            husbandry, aquaculture, cropping, horticulture, roadside stalls, rural industries, forest
            practices, wholesale nurseries and other primary production and compatible uses.
      (l)   Rural activities provide for appropriate value adding to produce on site where adverse
            environmental and amenity impacts are avoided.
Section 6.8.3.3 Performance Outcomes
      PO1
      Land uses in the Rural zone are limited to those which are compatible with agriculture and
      the protection of environmental and landscape values.