Submission 2a Woongar to Council

PETS
Pets are prohibited in most houses and penalties apply including immediate removal.
Contact with the managing agent who lives in the village is encouraged and available
24/7.

PERMANENT RENTALS
2A is a unique and expensive property to maintain and due to its broader nature would
not be suitable or affordable for struggling families and would also deny the Owners
access after 40 years of personal use. This argument to rent permanently is not
appropriately addressed as an argument against this STA application, rather it is a
mockery of the dire situation in the Shire of the lack of affordable housing.


Noosa Plan 2020 sets Objectives, Codes and Overlays for assessment for
development.

This property meets the objectives for Boreen Point in so much as it ‘retains the casual
and leisurely lifestyle atmosphere focused on water activities which attracts Visitors and
Tourists to the area in holiday periods. As well as being a home to the community who
appreciates the lifestyle it affords it serves as a popular visitor destination and a gateway
to the scenic wilderness of the upper Noosa River. ‘
These Visitors need suitable accommodation. The objective is to retain the lakeside
character but meet the needs of residents and visitors alike, a fact known to residents
who choose to live here and appreciate this diversity. They must live together or learn to
do so, as the two are not separate from each other but are in this place quite
compatible. BP is not an urban streetscape full of domestic bliss but rather it is both a
beautiful place to live and a beautiful place to visit.

Noosa Shire serves as a domestic and international tourism destination with particular
emphasis on nature-based tourism, such as that found surrounding Boreen Point, hence
it attracts many visitors to the lake every single day.
On any day cyclists cackle past early morning along the cycle trail; a parade of tinnies,
kayakers, canoeists, and sailboats may launch to explore the lake and river; buses
deliver school groups to the camping ground or lake front for expeditions upriver.
There are tourist buses to the pub; groups of hobie boat enthusiasts, outriggers and
canoeists who launch off main beach; day trippers roam the streets and foreshore;
campers cycle the village and walk to the pub; motor & cycle clubs rally by on scenic
adventures, young and old nomads come to see the lake. At other times the many
guests arrive for important International, National and State class sailing regattas or the
annual week of the timber boats parading the lake; walkers covering the Great Walk
who do parts only; lone kayakers who daily explore the lake environs; trail bike
competitors doing the Noosa Trail, visitors flying into the Cootharaba airstrip; groups of
artists doing workshops; the biannual Floating Land Event and weddings groups
catered at the pub.
Of the near 300 households in the low-density residential zone, only 3% are STA rental
properties. It’s an insignificant and insufficient number in this zone to cater for demand
for whole house accommodation and it now cannot be increased in this zone.
Of the Residential Rural blocks on the outer limits of the village there are 2 only, one
being 2A, the other a permanent residence. Of the Rural blocks there are 12 and all but
2 of them house permanent residents. The other 2 are private holiday homes.