Development Application part 3 of 10 Planning Report - MCU13/0092

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     .     the number of commercial developments which have taken place
           outside   the    Neighhbourhood                       Centre   zone   because   there   is
           insufficient    land    within      the            Neighbourhood      Centre    zone    to
           accommodate those developments,
     .     the Planning & Environment Court approval of the ’Scanlon’
           development on similarly zoned Open Space Recreation land.

The proposed development generally advances the Noosa Plan’s Shire wide
Desired     Environmental         Outcomes, and offers current and future local
Peregian Beach residents economic and community benefits.

In  particular this report demonstrates that there are sufficient grounds to
justify this approval namely:

     The    proposal offers the Peregian Beach community the provision of a
     bona      fide convenience shopping supermarket which will offer a
     contemporary range of produce (refer to Section 6.0 of this report),
     normally sought by sophisticated residential communities, particularly
     given that it would seem that the only existing supermarket, liThe Friendly
     Grocer" is intended to be replaced with a restaurant and market stalls;
     liThe establishment of a small neighbourhood centre with a supermarket
     will fill a substantial void in the Peregian Beach area. The need for the
     proposed centre is indicated by the lack of a supermarket serving the
     trade area and the resulting substantial expenditure escaping from the
     local community" (Source: ’Needs Assessment’ by Foresight Partners,
     Economics Consultants February 2013);
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     The provision of improved convenience speciality shopping facilities in
     co-location with the Supermarket. Some of the speciality shops will
     provide existing operators in the Neighbourhood Village Centre who are
     seeking to expand and/or modernise to do so in a ’true’ convenience
     shopping node. There are no suitably lands within the Neighbourhood
     Centre to accommodate any expansion of existing retail tenancies;
     The proposal will offer a considerable number of local jobs (up to 80 F/T,
     PIT and casual)and also arrest the escape of retail spending from
     Peregian Beach to neighbouring centres (to the anticipated tune of
     $10.6m in the first year of trading         expected to be 2015) to the
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     betterment of the local community;
     the location of the site in proximity to a Bus stop and next to the
     Peregian Community Centre, with generous on-site parking spaces and
     with access via the well established David Low Way       Woodlands Drive    -




     intersection to Rufous Street will be of convenience to residents and
     visitors;
     the development will complement and strengthen the role of the existing
     Neighbourhood Village Centre which functions predominantly as a
     highly successful Social/Entertainment/Dining centre (rather than
     compete with the centre), by attracting greater convenience shopping


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