2017-11-07 S&O Agenda - Attachment 1 to Item 10 - Annual Report 2016-17

                                                            Climate Change Adaption Plan (year two)
   Council entered into a Memorandum of                   Council has addressed a range of significant
    Understanding with Healthy Waterways and                planning and environment applications during
    Catchments for the ongoing “Land for Wildlife”          the last 12 months. Council approved 98.7% of
    program. This program helps support property            planning applications.
    owners who care for their land to encourage            Council had considerable success in the
    environmental protections.                              Planning and Environment Court with a
   Council undertook an environmental clean-up             significant victory for our Planning Scheme in
    of asbestos which was dumped illegally on               the Noosa Civic case. The court supported
    Walter Hay Drive.                                       Council’s position that it was inappropriate
   A systematic inspection of our industrial areas         under the Planning Scheme to expand retail
    has been undertaken to identify any issues with         operations on that site. During 2016/17, the
    run-off etc to local waterways. The detailed            appellant in the poultry farm case also withdrew
    report has identified some key areas for                their appeal as did the appellant in the Service
    improvement and the Council will be                     Station Centre appeal at the Good Shepherd
    considering the option of introducing a licencing       Lutheran School site on Eumundi Road.
    regime under our local laws.                           In an environmental first, Council has trialled a
   The Waste Reduction and Recycling Plan has              range of new environmentally friendly asphalt
    been rolled out in 2016/17. This included               processes in conjunction with our contractor.
    significant media coverage and school                   This has included the introduction of recycled
    education sessions.                                     printer cartridges into the asphalt mix and the
                                                            use of different temperatures to undertake the
   Council has entered into a contract for the             planning process. We have also trialled
    purchase of Johns Landing (approximately 50             different combinations of recyclable material
    ha) in order to undertake the long-term                 including shredded car tyres and recycled glass
    protection of important environmental land on
    the Noosa River. Council is also working with
    the current owner of the property to assist with
    the transition to alternative housing for those
    residents living on the current site.
   Council has facilitated the approval processes
    for a project being funded by the Noosa
    Biosphere Reserve Foundation to re-establish
    oyster reefs in the Noosa River. This has
    entailed obtaining both town planning approval
    from Council and environmental approvals from
    the State government. In addition, Council also
    provided $250,000 to the Noosa Biosphere
    Reserve Foundation for projects that advance
    the purpose of the Noosa Biosphere Reserve.




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