2015-09-15 Planning & Organisation Committee Agenda

PLANNING & ORGANISATION COMMITTEE MEETING AGENDA                                 15 SEPTEMBER 2015


4.3. Public Notification
The application was publicly notified for 15 business days in accordance with the Sustainable
Planning Act 2009. The applicant provided a Notice of Compliance on 12 August 2015 certifying
the advertising was correctly undertaken. 133 submissions were received comprising 119 properly
made submissions and 14 not properly made submissions were received by Council. Of these 37
were supportive of the development, 95 objected and 1 was neutral.

Submissions were received from a number of community groups and other bodies objecting to the
development, including Noosa Residents & Ratepayers Association, Noosa Chamber of
Commerce, Noosa Junction Association, Noosa Parks Association and Friends of Lake Weyba. A
small number of commercial competitors also submitted objections.

The following table provides a summary and assessment of the issues raised by submitters.

Issues                                                         Comments
Support
Need
 The application material and community support              The development would provide further retail
   demonstrate need for expansion of outlets that improve      choice but is considered to generally duplicate
   the range of retail offerings in the centre.                the existing centre and does not appropriately
 The expansion will lead to a more vibrant centre            respond to any pressing need. The application
   providing residents with the more retail opportunity.       ignores     other   approved    developments,
                                                               opportunities to provide better located
 The residents of an area should be provided with the
                                                               supermarkets closer to growing populations and
   broadest range of conveniently located retail facilities
                                                               the continued growth and primacy of
   and services that a market can support, at the earliest
                                                               Maroochydore.
   possible time without jeopardising the sustainability of
   other centres in the network which are adequately
   fulfilling consumer needs.
 The Noosa Civic should be allowed to expand to
   become the major shopping precinct for Noosa Shire,
   not just Noosa Heads. Doing so would help toward
   stemming the flood of cash and jobs to Maroochydore.
 At present we have no choice but to go to the Sunshine
   Plaza, the only nearest big shopping centre.
 Lack of diversity in shops at the Noosa Civic currently.
 The present Noosa Civic shopping centre is far too
   small, and has very little to offer
 There are only two cafes where you can eat indoors.
 Another supermarket is badly needed.
 Noosa Civic should include the kind of store we are all
   travelling to Maroochydore for.
 Residents currently incur further costs in fuel and
   pollution by having to travel long distances outside our
   region of Noosa
 As accommodation providers, we have to send guests
   to Maroochydore as they do not find the current street
   shopping, or the civic in its current form, suitable.
 The residents of this area are relatively poorly serviced
   in comparison to the communities in the Maroochydore
   or Caloundra areas.
 People would come from far and wide as the only large
   shopping centre is at Maroochydore.
 With the surrounding areas growing at such a pace, an
   expansion of Noosa Civic is required.


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