Owner's Consent (SCRC) - Development Application for Outdoor Dining MCU13/0069

 

“A neighbourhood centre at Quamby Place provides low level goods and services for
nearby residents and visitors but also includes various restaurants. A jetty provides
access to the Noosa River and the ferry.”

The Overall Outcomes for the Noosa Heads locality in The Noosa Plan are attached
as Attachment 5.
The Overall Outcome in the Noosa Heads locality for the “Open Space Recreation
Zone?’ is:
“Areas of open space contribute to the desired lifestyle of residents by offering
a variety of passive and active recreational experiences that are conducive to
community interaction and wellbeing.”

The Outcomes for the “Neighbourhood Centre Zone — The Quamby Place
Neighbourhood Centre is:
|. forms a focal point for the local community and visitors, provides services and
facilities to meet their day-to-day needs;
ll. provides Business Uses that respect the existing residential amenity of visitors
and residents within and surrounding the development; and
lil. provides Business Uses that are of a scale and character consistent with the
locality and Noosa’s retail hierarchy

Noosa Sound incorporates several other waterside parks seen in Attachment 6 -
Neighbouring Parks Map, all of which abut residential or unit complex land and all of
which are adjacent to the Noosa River or Weyba Creek. The Park in Quamby Place
contains a public tennis court.

Use of the Park could affect residents of the unit complex to the east, which is
overwhelmingly a tourist accommodation complex.

The Quamby Place Neighbourhood Business Centre situates 10 shopfronts facing a
colonnade, which immediately abuts the Park. There is therefore easy access, or
permeability, between the centre and the Park.

Existing Uses

The primary existing use of the Park is for passive and limited active recreation. The
Park provides a treed, shaded and grassed environment, some limited hard
landscaping (low walls) and soft landscaping (mounding and a herb garden), views to
the river, and a small children’s playground. The park provides a beautiful backdrop
for weddings with the river in the background. Several weddings are held annually in
the park, some of the weddings use the Quamby Place Restaurants as reception
venues, as this provides close proximity for couples and their guests to walk to the
park and reception from adjoining holiday accommodation.

A significant secondary use of the Park is for outdoor dining, in a narrow strip
immediately adjacent to the Quamby Place centre. There are 6 paved pads in that
strip, on three of which outdoor dining occurs under approvals historically given by
the Council. There are shade structures over those three areas. The outdoor dining
approvals are for the hours of not before 5.00am or after 12.00 midnight, and can
operate seven days per week.

The three outdoor dining approvals are for areas of 53 m?, 25 m* and 24 m*: a total of
102 m’*. That area represents 3.3% of the area of the Park. There are also 3
concrete pads on the Park adjacent to shops 3 4 & 9, which are approximately 5.5m

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