MCU15/0017 - Development Application

Town Planning Report
28 Eenie Creek Road, Noosaville

SP192396
713367157 Easement BE on SP182878 _—_Lot 3 on SP246584 Drainage
713731495 Easement BD on SP167984 —_ Lot 3 on SP246584 Access
3.2 Site Characteristics
3.2.1 Current Use of the Site

 

The site has been developed with a shopping centre, together with retail showrooms, commercial office
space and a service station. The existing centre, known as Noosa Civic, opened in October 2006 and
comprises:

¢ adiscount department store based shopping centre, including a service station, with retail shop floor
space of 18,585m? Total Use Area (TUA);

¢ the Emporium retail showrooms development with 7,056m? TUA;
* commercial office space of 5,000m? TUA; and
* associated servicing, carparking and other development infrastructure.

For further detail refer to Figure 3 — Aerial Photograph.

3.2.2 Road Frontages, Site Access, Servicing and Parking

The site is located to the south-west of the Eenie Creek Road and Walter Hay Drive intersection. The site
includes an approximate 180 metre frontage to Eenie Creek Road to the north and an approximate 950
metre frontage to Walter Hay Drive to the north-east and east. The site also includes an approximate 650
metre frontage to Hofmann Drive to the west.

The site currently includes four vehicular access points. The first is located to the east on Walter Hay Drive.
Access arrangements at this location include a three-legged roundabout, with two legs forming Walter Hay
Drive and the third providing access to the site. Pedestrian access is also provided at this location via a
concrete footpath. This site entry point allows access to existing car parking via an internal access road
which is located in an east-west alignment across the site. This access road connects in the west to the site’s.
second access point on Hofmann Drive, which is also formed by a three-legged roundabout. Pedestrian
access, via a concrete footpath, is also provided at this location.

Two additional access points are provided from Hofmann Drive, the first located to the south of the internal
access road. This access point is a non-signalised “T” intersection and provides vehicular access to car
parking areas. The fourth access point is located in the south-west of the site and is formed by a four-legged
roundabout at the intersection of Hofmann Drive and Rene Street. This location Provides access to the on-
site servicing area at the rear of the main building.

Servicing areas are provided at the rear of the main building and the rear of the Emporium building. The
Emporium servicing areas are accessed from the internal access road which runs from Hofmann Drive in the
west to Walter Hay Drive in the east. The main building's servicing areas are broken into two parts, with the
western part being accessed from the fourth access point and the eastern part being accessed from the
internal access road.

At grade car parking areas are generally located within the centre of the site and are bounded by the major
retail buildings.

3.2.3 Existing Significant Vegetation and Waterway Values
The site is identified by state vegetation mapping within a Category X area, being vegetation not regulated
under the Vegetation Management Act. The site is mapped, for the purposes of the State Planning Policy, as

partly containing matters of state environmental significance, namely wildlife habitat and regulation
vegetation (intersecting a watercourse).

 

February 2015 Cardno HRP 10