05. Town Planning Report · MCU10/2127

 VIRIDIAN NOOSA - PROPOSAL REPORT




                    Noosa Heads Locality Code. The extent of this conflict is minor based on a technical
                    assessment of the impacts of the proposal, as the proposal satisfies the overall
                    outcomes of the Noosa Locality Code, which relevantly seek to ensure that:

                    (a)      visitor accommodation remains the primary focus of Noosa Heads;

                    (b)      resident populations are accommodated in both detached and attached
                             housing with high levels of residential amenity and high levels of
                             convenience, accessibility and services;

                    (c)      substantial key sites are protected for resort developments; and
                    (d)      within the Attached Housing Zone, residents and visitors are accommodated
                             in predominantly Multiple housing forms which offer a higher level of
                             residential amenity, design quality and safety and respect the scale and
                             character of the streetscape and surrounding development.
                    Sufficient planning grounds are submitted (Section 6.0) which justify the minor
                    conflict. The proposed development comprises high quality attached housing
                    designed to cater for visitors of any length of stay. The accommodation provides
                    very high levels of amenity, convenience, accessibility and services, wholly
                    integrated yet self contained within an existing resort. The proposal provides the
                    owners of the specified units with the flexibility to use the dwellings on terms more
                    suitable to their lifestyle and needs. Research undertaken by KPMG confirms that
                    very few owners would permanently occupy their dwelling unit and that units are
                    likely to remain available to the Resort through the letting pool. As the units within
                    the proposed development remain available to the Resort, the units can still be
                    used to accommodate visitors to Noosa. The proposal does not alter the function of
                    the development or the use of the site, which will remain an integrated tourist
                    resort in look, feel and function.        The economic impacts of the proposed
                    development on the Noosa tourism industry are expected to be marginal.

                    Accordingly, we recommend that this development application be considered
                    favourably by Council and the relevant Concurrence Agencies, and be approved
                    subject to reasonable and relevant conditions.


                    HUMPHREYS REYNOLDS PERKINS
                    PLANNING CONSULTANTS




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