2021-10-12 Planning & Environment Committee Meeting Agenda

PLANNING & ENVIRONMENT COMMITTEE MEETING AGENDA                                   12 OCTOBER 2021


Complaints are elevated to Council where there are ongoing issues or there are breaches against
the local law approval conditions. Investigation and enforcement action is undertaken in
accordance with the provisions under Local Law No.1 (Administration) 2015.
2.2   Public consultation about the proposed local law
The proposed local law, together with the public interest test plan (about anti-competitive
provisions), was initially made available for public consultation for a 5 week period from 9 April until
14 May 2021. In response to resident requests and a petition, the consultation period was extend
for another 2 weeks until 28 May 2021 for a total 7 week period.
During the consultation period, public notification and information was provided through a number
of means including a public notice, advertisements, media releases, static displays, Yoursay Noosa
webpage, social media, radio announcements, emails, letter notifications and a community /
resident group stakeholder meeting. Section 10.3 to this report provides additional information
regarding the public consultation process.
2.3    Public consultation results
The public consultation process resulted in a large number of enquiries and actions including:
•     110 emails enquiries;
•     150 telephone enquiries;
•     5700 visits to Yoursay page;
•     4021 visits to at least one page in Yoursay;
•     1174 persons downloaded documents;
•     594 visited FAQs;
•     979 downloads of Fact Sheet on short stay letting;
•     445 downloads of Plain English version;
•     443 downloads of Fact Sheet on home hosted accommodation; and
•     37,284 people were reached from social media posts.
A total of 615 written submissions were received from a range of stakeholders including:
•     300 resident submissions;
•     2 resident petitions:
      o     Witta Circle -22 properties
      o     Extension request-52 signatures;
•     6 resident / community group submissions;
•     66 home hosted accommodation operator submissions;
•     163 short stay let operator submissions:
      o     1 legal submission for 54 properties / owners;
•     23 letting agents / property manager submissions;
•     8 onsite manager submissions;
•     1 short stay letting industry association submission;
•     2 online booking platform provider submissions;
•     37 site/area specific submissions:
      o     7 Parkridge
      o     12 Boreen Pt
      o     18 Teewah; and
•     7 other submissions.



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