Minor Change - Planning Report 11 Allambi · 132000.200359.3

5.   Planning Assessment

The proposed Minor Change can be supported on a number of grounds as detailed below:

     •    The proposal can be defined as a Minor Change to Approval in accordance with Schedule
          1 of the Planning Act 2016,

     •    The proposal is consistent with the outcomes sought by the Noosa Plan 2020, and

     •    The changes are all internal creating no external impacts.

5.1 Minor Change

In accordance with Schedule 2 of the Planning Act 2016 a ‘minor change’ means change that -

(b) for a development approval—

          (i) would not result in substantially different development; and

          (ii) if a development application for the development, including the change, were made
          when the change application is made would not cause—

                  (A) the inclusion of prohibited development in the application; or

                  (B) referral to a referral agency, other than to the chief executive, if there were no
                  referral agencies for the development application; or

                  (C) referral to extra referral agencies, other than to the chief executive; or

                  (D) a referral agency, in assessing the application under section 55(2), to assess the
                  application against, or have regard to, a matter, other than a matter the referral
                  agency must have assessed the application against, or had regard to, when the
                  application was made; or

                  (E) public notification if public notification was not required for the development
                  application.

In respect of whether the change results in a ‘substantially different’ development, assessment
against Schedule 1: Substantially Different Development Guideline contained within the
Development Assessment Rules, is provided in Table 2 below:

Table 1 Substantially Different Development Guideline

         ‘Substantially different’
                                                                           Comment
              development
 Involves a new use                            The dwelling house, still remains a dwelling house.
 Results in the application applying           No new land is applied over as part of this change
 to a new parcel of land
                                               application.
 Dramatically changes the built                All proposed changes are internal to the existing
 form in terms of scale, bulk, and
                                               approved built form.
 appearance
                                               These changes are repurposing existing rooms from one


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