Minor Change Application_301017

Secondly, no pre-request responses or response notices have been received or are relevant to this
minor change application.

In respect to the matters set out under section 81(3) of the Act, we make the following comments:

         (3)(a) must assess against, or have regard to, the matters that applied when the development
         application was made; and

Comment: Council described in their assessment report at the time of assessing the original OPW
(Signage) application that the Advertising Devices Code allows the following:
 a total sign face area of 10m² per premises
 no sign exceeding a single sign face area of 4m² per premises
 1 pillar sign per frontage
 1 illuminated sign per frontage.

Council’s assessment of the signage proposal centred on Specific Outcome O6 of the Code, which
states:

         O6 Advertising devices respect the scale and nature of surrounding development and
         contribute positively to the visual amenity, streetscape, landscape setting and natural and built
         environment of where the advertising device is placed.

Council concluded that some of the tenancy signage was larger than it felt the Code allowed and the
number of illuminated signs was too many for the development. Council’s recommended conditions
be applied to reduce the size of the wall signs to 4m2 each and to limit the number of illuminated
signs to one per frontage. Such conditions were subsequently applied.

In regard to the proposed pillar signs at the time, Council’s reported that:

         “The proposal plans indicate 2 x 6m high pillar signs to the Eumundi Noosa Road frontage.
         The Advertising devices Code prescribes a 5m height limit and 1 pillar sign per frontage. It is
         acknowledged that not all pillar signs in the auto park comply with the 5m height requirement,
         but generally, pillar signs elsewhere in the industrial estate do not exceed 5m in height. The
         number of pillar signs is generally 1 per frontage in the surrounding area. The development is
         located prominently and the additional pillar sign and height is not considered warranted. A
         condition is recommended to reduce the height of the sign and to permit only 1 pillar sign on
         each frontage.”

Council did in fact impose conditions to reduce the size of the pillar signs to a maximum height of 5m
and to be limited to one sign per frontage – which are the Acceptable Solutions for Specific Outcome
O6.

Having regard to the same criteria for the proposed pillar sign it is noted that:

                           1.   The height of the proposed pillar sign does not exceed 5m; and
                           2.   The proposed pillar sign would be the only freestanding sign fronting
                                Walter Hay Drive relative to the subject land.
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As the site technically has five (5) frontages according to Council’s administration definitions – Lot 1
has a frontage to Eumundi Noosa Road and Lionel Donovan Drive, and Lot 2 has a frontage to
Eumundi Noosa Road, Lionel Donovan Drive and Walter Hay Drive – the above assessment would have
allowed 2 pillar signs to Eumundi Noosa Road, 2 pillar signs to Lionel Donovan Drive and 1 pillar sign
to Walter Hay Drive.


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  frontage means a boundary of an allotment which abuts a road. Where a lot has more than one frontage, Council may
nominate a primary frontage. allotment means a piece of land or space described in a land title.




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