2017-08-08 Planning & Environment Committee Agenda

PLANNING & ENVIRONMENT COMMITTEE MEETING AGENDA                                       08 AUGUST 2017


dedication of 52.757 hectares of parkland. A copy of the approved plan is contained within
Attachment 1.
In 2012 the site was part of an application which also included land situated at 99 Hollett Road,
106 and 108-142 Tidswell Road, Weyba Downs.
The application sought preliminary approval under section 242 of the Sustainable Planning Act to
vary the effect of The Noosa Plan and Maroochy Plan 2000 Planning Schemes for a mixed-use
community title development. The development was to be known as Noosa on Weyba comprising
a mix of residential, retail, community and open space uses to be established under a multi-level
community title scheme structure.
The applicant proposed a Noosa on Weyba Locality Plan to generally override the local planning
schemes provisions for the development site. The Plan identified four primary urban precincts with
varying density and character. The precincts were further broken down into zones, being Detached
Housing, Attached Housing, Rural Settlement and Neighbourhood Centre zones. An Open Space
Conservation Zone surrounded the urban precincts.
Proposed uses within the precincts included detached houses, small lot houses, duplexes, multiple
dwellings (units, townhouses and attached dwellings), retirement dwellings and aged care facilities.
Minimum lot sizes ranged from 350m2 to 800m2 and minimum residential densities ranged
between 15 – 32 dwellings per hectare. Proposed building heights were 2 to 3 storeys and the
Noosa on Weyba Locality Plan also proposed differing built form provisions (such as site cover
and boundary setbacks) to those sought in comparable urban areas under the Maroochy and
Noosa planning schemes.
The application was refused on 4 April 2014 to which an appeal was lodged on 7 May 2014, but
was subsequently withdrawn.
As part of the original approval for this site it was identified that a part of Hollett Road is not within
the road reserve but rather it is located on freehold land owned by Council. Accordingly, Council is
required pursuant to an Infrastructure Agreement entered into at the time of settlement of the
appeal to commence road closure and road opening applications.
This process is currently being undertaken by the Council’s property department, on the property
owner’s behalf, who have made the application to the State.
On 28 April 2017 an application to extend the currency period was received under the Sustainable
Planning Act 2009. This application was determined at Council’s Ordinary Meeting on 20 July 2017
where it was determined to refuse the application.
On 29 June 2017 the applicant lodged survey plans for sealing for the first stage of the
development. An Operational Works application has not been made and accordingly no works
required prior to plan sealing have been commenced.
3.    SITE DETAILS
3.1. Site Description
The subject site has an area of 110 hectares and is located south of the Noosa Shire Business
Centre. The site is bordered to the northeast by Eenie Creek, to the east by undeveloped land
fronting Lake Weyba, to the south by Hollett Road and the west by rural residential land. The
north-west corner of the site adjoins land developed for detached housing. The site is dissected
by Walter Hay Drive, but no access is permitted from this road, with the site having vehicular access
via Hollett Road. An Energex transmission line and an associated easement traverse the northern
portion of the site.
Topographically the site is largely flat with gently undulating slopes with a mosaic of soil types.
The site currently supports large areas of grasslands that have been actively used for cattle
grazing. The site also supports areas of paperbark forest and eucalypt woodlands and there are
a number of small dams scattered through the central portion of the site.


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