Planning Report - 14-16 Mary Street, Noosaville - Bounce Hostels 15.6.2018

7.State Planning Interests
State Planning Policy

A new State Planning Policy (SPP) was introduced on 3rd July 2017 and defines the Queensland
Government’s policies about matters of state interest in land use planning and development. The SPP
only applies to development assessment if the planning scheme has not yet appropriately integrated the
SPP. If there is a discrepancy between a local planning scheme and a state planning policy, then what is
outlined in the state planning policy overrides the planning scheme. The Noosa Plan does not reflect the SPP
and assessment against the SPP is required. The State interest policies and assessment benchmarks in Part E of
the State Planning Policy are addressed below.


Table 5: State Planning Interests

                                    State Interest Policies and Assessment Benchmarks
 Liveable communities and housing               The site is well-located including access to all necessary services, including
                                                Council’s reticulated water supply, electricity, sewer, telecommunications and
 i)     Housing supply and diversity            transport.
 ii)    Liveable communities
                                                The proposal involves the redevelopment of a site for a new short-term visitor
                                                accommodation (hostel) that provides a high quality urban design and
                                                increases visitor housing diversity and options within the area.

                                                The proposed development complies with the assessment benchmarks for
                                                liveable communities as specified in the SPP.
 Economic Growth                                The proposal is for a hostel accommodation in an urban area and does not
                                                impact on agricultural, mining, or tourism development opportunities. As
 i)     Agriculture
                                                such, this matter of state interest is not applicable to the assessment of this
 ii)    Development and construction            application.
 iii)   Mining and extractive resources
 iv)    Tourism
 Environment and Heritage                       The site is not located within biodiversity, coastal environment, or cultural
                                                heritage overlays.
 i)     Biodiversity                            This site is located within the water resource planning area overlay. However,
 ii)    Coastal Environment                     the redevelopment of the site will not result in any adverse impacts on
 iii)   Cultural heritage
                                                drinking water supply environmental values.
 iv)    Water quality
                                                The site has previously been cleared of all vegetation of significance.
 Safety and Resilience to Hazards               The site is located within the Medium storm tide inundation area and the
                                                Flood hazard area - level 1 - Queensland floodplain assessment overlay.
 i)     Emissions and hazardous
                                                These issues are addressed in the local government flood mapping area and
        activities
                                                Natural Hazard Overlay Code. The proposal is considered to mitigate the risk
 ii)    Natural hazards, risk and               of flooding, erosion and storm tide inundation through design and
        resilience                              earthworks.
 Infrastructure                                 The proposed hostel will connect to the existing infrastructure including
                                                Council’s reticulated water, electricity, and sewer supply.
 i)     Energy and water supply
                                                The proposal will not compromise or intrude upon any strategic
 ii)    Infrastructure integration              infrastructure.
 iii)   Transport infrastructure
 iv)    Strategic airports and aviation
        facilities
 v)     Strategic ports




                14-16 Mary Street, Noosaville                                                                 26