2021-10-12 Planning & Environment Committee Meeting Agenda

PLANNING & ENVIRONMENT COMMITTEE MEETING AGENDA                                  12 OCTOBER 2021


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;
•     Noosa Plan 2020.
3.2   State and Other Statutory Instruments
State Planning Policy
Noosa Plan 2020 is generally consistent with the State Planning Policy July 2017 (SPP) and the
SPP raises no further issues relevant to the proposed development.
South East Queensland (SEQ) Regional Plan
The site is located within the Urban Footprint of the SEQ Regional Plan. The proposal is consistent
with the regional policies of the SEQ Regional Plan.
Planning Regulation 2017
The proposal is for an urban activity within the Urban Footprint and is consistent with the assessment
benchmarks contained in the Planning Regulation 2017 for the SEQ Region.
3.3   Statutory Instruments – Planning Scheme
The application must be assessed against the whole of Noosa Plan 2020 to the extent the provisions
are relevant to the development.
The applicant was requested by Officers to agree to extend the decision making period until 21
October 2021 to allow the report to be considered by Council, but the applicant declined this request.
Therefore, this application should have been decided by the original decision date of 7 October 2021.
Accordingly, the date Council decides this application will be outside the timeframes sought under
the Planning Act 2016. As the application is impact assessable the ‘deemed approval’ provisions do
not relate to this application and there is no risk to Council in deciding this application after the
decision due date.
Code Provisions
The subject site is located in Sunshine Beach and is zoned Medium Density Residential. The
proposed use is identified as a consistent use with the zone and is required to follow an impact
assessable application process.
The pertinent issues arising out of the assessment are discussed below.
Strategic Framework
The planning scheme acknowledges that the Shire’s coastal areas are the most popular with visitors
and that visitors contribute to Noosa’s economy. However, the strategic intent is to broaden the
economic structure of the local economy and be less reliant on a tourism driven industry.
Accordingly increased visitor accommodation is not specifically sought by The Noosa Plan 2020,
apart from some key identified sites and areas zoned Tourist Accommodation, and the strategic
outcomes instead seek to protect identified areas for visitor accommodation and neighbourhoods of
permanent housing from short-term visitor accommodation.
The subject site is not located in a designated visitor accommodation area being zoned Medium
Density Residential. The area has a significant amount of visitor accommodation that is adversely
impacting on resident’s residential amenity.



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