planning report 5 adams st feb 24 · MCU24/0022

4.0 Planning assessment
The use of bedrooms of a dwelling house for home hosted accommodation is an accommodation
activity consisting of a home-based business (means the use of a dwelling or domestic outbuilding
on premises for a business activity that is subordinate to the residential use of the premises.


This activity is Accepted development subject to requirements if within an existing dwelling house
and no more than two guest bedrooms are available for letting. The following assessment is provided
against the Accepted development requirements, with the Performance Outcome assessment
thereafter.


4.1 Code - Key provisions

Table 3: Assessment against key development parameters within The Noosa Plan 2020:
 Code Provision                                                                                                                                                     Compliance
 Low Density Residential Zone Code
 AO2
 Land uses do not regularly result in more than ten unrelated persons being present on site. Land uses do not adversely affect the amenity of the
 residential neighbourhood by the emission of noise, vibration, smell, fumes, smoke, vapour, steam, soot, ash, dust, grit, oil, waste water, waste products,            Y
 or radio or electrical interference. Any business operated on site including accommodation is subordinate to the use of the premises for a domestic
 residence.

 AO3.1
 Home-based businesses allow for up to four short term guests to be accommodated within the home of the host while the host remains in residence,                       Y
 such as traditional bed and breakfast accommodation.

 AO15
 Driveways have a maximum width of 6 metres within the property and only one footpath crossing is provided per property as part of the driveway.                        Y
 AO17
 Boundary fences and walls are designed to allow for casual surveillance from the property to the street and any adjoining public spaces. Landscaping,
 fences or other works on property boundaries or road reserves do not create impediments for pedestrian or cyclist use of the footpath. No more than                    Y
 one heavy vehicle (or combination of heavy vehicles) of more than 4.5 tonnes, or with a total length in excess of 7.5 metres is parked on the property
 overnight. No flood lighting is used on site and the vertical illumination resulting from direct, reflected or other incidental external lighting emanating from
 the site does not exceed 8 lux when measured at any point 1.5 metre outside the boundary and at any level from ground level upward.

 AO18
 A 1.5 metre landscaped buffer separates any private tennis court, half court or sports court from side property boundaries where adjoining land in a
 residential zone or in the Rural Residential zone.                                                                                                                    N/A


 Home-based Business Code
 AO1
 Where employees, clients, customers or guests regularly attend the site the Home-based business does not occur in attached or semi-attached housing
 styles or on premises covered by Building Unit Plans.                                                                                                                  Y

 AO2
 Where located in the Low density residential zone or Medium density residential zone, if employees, customers, clients or guests attend the site,
 the site has a minimum area of 550m2.                                                                                                                                 PO

 AO3
 The home-based        business is       operated         by        a                   resident         (or         residents)         of         the dwelling.
 The home-based business occupies no more than 40% of the dwelling.                                                                                                     Y

 AO4                                                                                                                                                                    Y
 Guests have only limited facilities for preparing food and beverages and no laundry.

 AO5.1
 Development is conducted within a dwelling; or within another enclosed structure on the site of a dwelling house.                                                      Y
 AO5.2
 The home-based business does not occupy an area greater than: in the Rural Residential Zone— 150m2; in the Rural Zone 1% of the site area or                           Y
 300m² whichever is lesser; otherwise— 50m2.

 AO5.6
 Commercial deliveries, collections or passenger transfers, are limited to a vehicle no bigger than a courier van or minivan and no more than two deliveries            Y
 or collections per day.

 AO6
 With the exception of mail order or internet sales, only goods that are grown or manufactured on site are available for retail sale or The sale of goods              N/A
 not manufactured on site is ancillary to the service provided by the home-based business.
 Where goods are offered for sale from the premises, the display of such goods: does not occur outside of a building; is not visible from the street or
 another public place; and does not occupy more than 16m2 of floor space.

 AO7
 Where employees, customers, clients or guests attend the site, the entrance to the business is visible and easily accessible from the car parking areas
 so as to cause minimal disturbance to adjoining premises.                                                                                                              Y

 AO8
 The business does not generate any noise audible beyond the property boundaries outside the hours of 8.00am to 5.00pm, Monday to Friday excluding
 public holidays (this includes noise generated by traffic or deliveries).                                                                                              Y




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