Planning Report - Revisions incoporating Attachment H - Economic Report · MCU13/0092

    •      the number of commercial developments which have taken place
           outside the Neighhbourhood Centre zone because there is
           insufficient land within the Neighbourhood Centre zone to
           accommodate those developments,
    •      the Planning & Environment Court approval of the ‘Scanlon’
           development on similarly zoned Open Space Recreation land.

The proposed development generally advances the Noosa Plan’s Shire wide
Desired Environmental Outcomes, and offers current and future local
Peregian Beach residents economic and community benefits.

In particular this report demonstrates that there are sufficient grounds to
justify this approval namely:

    The proposal offers the Peregian Beach community the provision of a
    bona fide convenience shopping supermarket which will offer a
    contemporary range of produce (refer to Section 6.0 of this report),
    normally sought by sophisticated residential communities, particularly
    given that it would seem that the only existing supermarket, “The Friendly
    Grocer” is intended to be replaced with a restaurant and market stalls;
    “The establishment of a small neighbourhood centre with a supermarket
    will fill a substantial void in the Peregian Beach area. The need for the
    proposed centre is indicated by the lack of a supermarket serving the
    trade area and the resulting substantial expenditure escaping from the
    local community” (Source: ‘Needs Assessment’ by Foresight Partners,
    Economics Consultants – February 2013);
    The provision of improved convenience speciality shopping facilities in
    co-location with the Supermarket. Some of the speciality shops will
    provide existing operators in the Neighbourhood Village Centre who are
    seeking to expand and/or modernise to do so in a ‘true’ convenience
    shopping node. There are no suitably lands within the Neighbourhood
    Centre to accommodate any expansion of existing retail tenancies;
    The proposal will offer a considerable number of local jobs (up to 80 F/T,
    P/T and casual)and also arrest the escape of retail spending from
    Peregian Beach to neighbouring centres (to the anticipated tune of
    $10.6m in the first year of trading – expected to be 2015) to the
    betterment of the local community;
    the location of the site in proximity to a Bus Stop and next to the
    Peregian Community Centre, with generous on-site parking spaces and
    with access via the well established David Low Way – Woodlands Drive
    intersection to Rufous Street will be of convenience to residents and
    visitors;
    the development will complement and strengthen the role of the existing
    Neighbourhood Village Centre which functions predominantly as a
    highly successful Social/Entertainment/Dining centre (rather than
    compete with the centre), by attracting greater convenience shopping

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