Appendix Q - Planning Scheme Code Responses

                                                                                                                  COOROY AND LAKE MACDONALD LOCALITY
                                                                                                                                      Overall Outcomes

iv timber industry initiatives and product manufacturing at the Nandroya Mill site;
v Cooroy’s support role in the locality for surrounding agricultural activities;
vi extractive and mineral resources;
vii facilitating artistic and cultural business enterprises; and
viii agricultural industries and associated rural enterprises;
u) Business opportunities in Cooroy are enhanced by the protection of major           The proposal is not a business opportunity.
transport corridors including access to the Bruce Highway, Cooroy-Noosa Road
and the North Coast Rail line;
v) Cooroy services much of the hinterland of Noosa providing low to medium order      The proposal complies community and specialised medical services in
goods and some higher order goods and services such as vehicle sales, rural           the hinterland of Noosa.
supplies, community, medical, and educational facilities as well as specialty items
such as handmade furniture;
w) Cooroy’s industrial estates provide capacity for considerable growth, diversity    The proposal is not an industrial activity or in an industrial estate.
and employment for the hinterland, with access to the Bruce highway being
particularly important to this growth;
x) The town of Cooroy provides a range of community services, schools, medical        The proposal is not in the town of Cooroy.
facilities, sporting and recreational facilities, which service the hinterland and
beyond;
y) New areas of urban and rural settlement development are precluded from the         The proposal will not compromise the water quality in the catchment
part of the locality within the catchment area of Lake Macdonald where the            area of Lake Macdonald.
dominant goal is the protection of water quality within the primary water supply
source;
z) The Bruce Highway, Elm Street, Cooroy-Noosa Road, Eumundi Road, parts of           The proposal does not compromise Noosa’s major road network.
Myall Street and Diamond Street, Cooroy-Belli Road, Maple Street, Mary River
Road, Lake Macdonald Drive and Sunrise Road are protected as parts of the
Noosa’s major road network;
aa) A public transport node is located within Cooroy and links public transport       The proposal is not located in the Cooroy township.
services to other centres in Noosa, including railway stations;
bb) Rail services and highway access is maintained for residents of the locality to   Not applicable.
commute to Brisbane or other employment centres;
cc) The vistas offered from the major road corridors are protected and add to the     The development will not be visible from the Bruce Highway.
attraction of the locality for visitors and residents;
dd) Environmental and aesthetic values associated with the hillslopes, including      The development will not compromise environmental and aesthetic
iconic mountains and the watercourses of Lake Macdonald, Ringtail, Six Mile and       values of surrounding land formations.
Cooroy Creeks, are protected;
ee) The water quality of Lake Macdonald is protected as the primary source of         The proposal will not compromise the water quality of any proximate
water supply for the coastal urban areas of Noosa and the rural towns and villages    water source.
of Cooroy, Pomona, Cooran and Cooroibah;