2021-10-12 Planning & Environment Committee Meeting Agenda

PLANNING & ENVIRONMENT COMMITTEE MEETING AGENDA                                   12 OCTOBER 2021


2.    BACKGROUND
The site was originally gifted from Noosa Shire Council to Noosa Care Incorporated in 1975 for the
purposes of providing aged care.
Carramar Noosa Homes is currently located on the site. The complex has been operating over a
number of years with several extensions progressively being added to the facility. The development
at the time consisted of 142 residential rooms containing one bed, including a special care dementia
building containing 32 rooms, and ancillary features including a community centre, staff building and
administration building.
A Preliminary Approval for a Material Change of Use Multiple Housing Type 3 Retirement and
Special Needs (MCU18/0009) was issued 21 August 2018. The original application sought a
Development Permit for an additional 48 beds in 6 accommodation villas. The Preliminary Approval
was issued due to the identification of development constraints related to the habitat of the
threatened Swamp Crayfish, flooding, wetland vegetation and car parking.
The applicant suspended the appeal period on 31 August 2018 and made representations on 2
October 2018. The representations sought a Negotiated Decision Notice to change the decision type
from a Preliminary Approval to a Development Permit for a Material Change of Use and amend
condition 1. The representations were approved on 15 November 2018 with an amended layout
providing for an additional 32 beds in 4 accommodation villas, resulting in a total of 174 beds in 10
accommodation villas.
A minor change application (MCU18/0009.01) was submitted on 10 April 2019 which amended the
layout of the development. The single storey accommodation villas at the front of the site were
deleted and the built form to the rear of the site was amended from single storey to double storey
with all 32 beds being contained within the buildings to the rear of the site being a total of 174 beds
in 9 accommodation villas. This application was approved by Council on 18 July 2019.
A further minor change (MCU18/009.02) application was submitted on 10 March 2020 seeking
approval to amend the approved plans to include fire-fighting pumps adjacent to the front boundary
of the site. The application was approved under delegation on 29 April 2020.
An Other Change (MCU18/0009.03) for a revised parking layout was approved on 18 February 2021.
This included a new (additional) lot and for this reason could not be accepted as a minor change
under the Planning Act 2016.
3.    ASSESSMENT
3.1   Instruments for Statutory Assessment
Under the Planning Act 2016 the application must be assessed against each of the following
statutory planning instruments to the extent they are relevant to the development:
•     State Planning Policy;
•     South East Queensland Regional Plan;
•     Planning Regulation 2017
•     The Noosa Plan.
The following codes from the Noosa Plan are applicable to this development:
•     Tewantin Local Plan Code
•     Community Facilities Zone Code
•     Special Residential Code
•     Works Codes
3.2   Statutory Process
The applicant has requested to make a minor change to a development approval under s78 of the
Planning Act 2016. An application for a minor change to a development approval can only be made
in circumstances where a change would constitute a ‘minor change’.


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