DUPLICATE PM Submission Object - Peregian Beach Community Association - MCU16/0153 & REC16/0041

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                     5.1 Community, Local and State Government

                     PBCAI specifically seeks to protect and retain the site for low cost visitor
                     accommodation reflective of the site’s previous use as a caravan park.
                     Peregian Beach is a family oriented village and affordable visitor
                     accommodation attracts the type of visitor - families and retirees - that the
                     village welcome.

                     The Noosa Plan resulted from a community consultation process and was
                     subsequently approved by the State Government. It should not lightly be
                     ignored by a developer being granted an approval which significantly conflicts
                     with the Plan.

                     5.2 Developer’s Track Record

                     The proposed development does not benefit of the Peregian Beach
                     community. Such a dense development is out of character with the nature of
                     accommodation in PB. It is inconsistent with many of the overall objectives of
                     the Eastern Beaches Local Plan and specifically (as outlined in Division 14,
                     7.7.2) that:

                               h) Emphasis is placed on the protection and retention of low cost
                               accommodation consistent with maintaining a diversity of
                               accommodation types for visitors to the locality;
                               g) (v) low rise Multiple housing development that is limited to the areas
                               within the vicinity of the Sunshine Beach neighbourhood centre;

                     This DA proposes only 20 visitor beds in the Hotel. It does propose a further
                     12 apartments designated as “multiple and visitor” which the developer
                     proposes to make available for permanent residents although whether this on
                     a lease or sale basis is unknown. All of the 88 beds in the “Multiple Housing”
                     are proposed to be for permanent residents contrary to the Noosa Plan and
                     the previous, now lapsed, approval.

                     PBCAI agrees with the comment in the Information Request at page 12 of 13
                     “the limited range of visitor accommodation proposed in conjunction with the
                     primary use of the site for permanent residential living remains a significant
                     concern.”

                     This concern is increased by the fact that the commercial building, which the
                     developer replaced with the IGA supermarket, provided 68 beds for visitor
                     accommodation. Now this DA provides for less visitor accommodation on the
                     entire site than was originally sanctioned by the Planning and Environment
                     Court approval of 12 February 2010.

                     5.3 Developer’s Acknowledgement of Non-compliance




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Version: 1, Version Date: 26/04/2017