2020-06-09 Planning & Environment Committee Agenda

PLANNING & ENVIRONMENT COMMITTEE MEETING AGENDA                                     9 JUNE 2020


3.2. State and Other Statutory Instruments
State Planning Policy
The Noosa Plan is generally consistent with the State Planning Policy July 2017 (SPP).
State Planning Policy 2017 - Coastal Management District
The site is located in a Coastal Management District (CMD). A CMD is a coastal area that is
considered to need protection or management, especially with respect to the area’s vulnerability
to erosion, value in maintaining or enhancing coastal resources or for planning and development
of the area. The site is also mapped under the State Planning Policy as subject to medium and
high storm tide hazard and the erosion prone area.
The Coastal Environment State Planning Policy (SPP) recognises that some development is
coastal dependent requiring land adjoining the foreshore and access to tidal water in order to
function affectively. The SPP states:
4.   Coastal-dependent development in areas adjoining tidal water is facilitated in preference to
     other types of development.
5.   Opportunities for public use of and access to, and along, state coastal land is maintained or
     enhanced in a way that protects or enhances public safety and coastal resources.
The location of the QBFP operation is compliant with the SPP as it is a coastal dependent
development that in order to function effectively, is required to be located adjacent to the
foreshore and tidal water. The location of the QBFP provides officers and emergency services
with immediate access to the Noosa River to maintain public safety. The use has operated at its
current location since 1974 and although the building has increased in size, the proposed works
do not intensify how the site is used.
South East Queensland (SEQ) Regional Plan
The site is located within the Urban Footprint area of the SEQ Regional Plan. The proposal is
consistent with the regional policies of the SEQ Regional Plan.
Planning Regulation 2017
The following assessment benchmark from the Planning Regulation 2017 applies to the
application:
•    SEQ Development Area
The proposal is for urban activity within the Urban Footprint and is consistent with the
assessment benchmarks contained in the Planning Regulation 2017 for the SEQ Region.
3.3. Statutory Instruments – Planning Scheme
The application must be assessed against the whole of the Noosa Plan to the extent the
provisions are relevant to the development, including the following Codes:
•    Noosaville Locality Code
•    Infrastructure Uses Code
•    Natural Hazard Overlay Code - Acid Sulphate Soils and Flood
•    Biodiversity Overlay Code - Riparian buffer area
•    Heritage Overlay Code (Noosa River Holiday Park site only)
•    Landscaping Code




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