2015-09-15 Planning & Organisation Committee Agenda

PLANNING & ORGANISATION COMMITTEE MEETING AGENDA                                15 SEPTEMBER 2015


2.    SITE DETAILS
2.1. Site Description
The site is part of Lot 3 SP 246584 located at 28 Eenie Creek Road, Noosaville. The parent lot is
irregularly shaped and approximately 31.73ha in area, however, the applicant amended the
application to exclude a portion across Walter Hay Drive to the northeast (shown in Figure 12
below) so the land is not encumbered by the application. The resultant site area is 28.94ha.




     Figure 12 – Full extent of Lot 3 SP246584 (left) and reduced area subject to DA (right)


The site has frontages to Eenie Creek Road (approximately 730m) and Walter Hay Drive
(approximately 1,030m), which both form part of the major road network identified by The Noosa
Plan, neither road is State controlled. Vehicular access to the site is currently provided from both
Eenie Creek Road and Walter Hay Drive, with both intersections functioning as roundabouts. An
additional roundabout intersection has been constructed on Walter Hay Drive at the southern end
of the site in anticipation of future development. Pedestrian and cyclist access to the site is primarily
provided via a path from the Eenie Creek Road frontage, with tunnels constructed under both Eenie
Creek Road and Walter Hay Drive. The site is within a few kilometres of secondary activity centres
at Tewantin, Noosaville and Noosa Junction. The Noosaville industrial estate is located to the
immediate west of the site, with a large retirement village located to the north, with the North Weyba
section of the Noosa National Park and Lake Weyba to the east. At a regional scale, the site is
located approximately 27km north of Maroochydore.

The land is generally flat and gently sloping toward Eenie Creek to the south of the site. The site
is part of a system of coastal lowlands that flow to Lake Weyba and the Noosa River. A drainage
corridor is also situated on the subject site, running generally in a north east to south west direction
to Eenie Creek south of the site. This corridor is identified as precinct OS7 – open space
(environmental drainage) by the precinct plan for the NBC and has been dedicated as Covenant
J.

The existing developed portions of the site, subject to Stage 1, have been extensively cleared of
vegetation. The area of the subject site, which is to be developed as Stage 3 is vacant land and
is currently vegetated. The vegetation is intact regrowth vegetation located south east of the
existing development and bordered to the east by Walter Hay Drive.


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