2019-12-11 SM Agenda - Item 1 - Attachment 1 DRAFT 20191202-Noosa Plan Consultation Report

 Submitter   Submission and Grounds of Submission                                                                               Planners’ Response                                                                                         Recommendation
             Should the Noosa Council Works Deport in School Street (opposite the bowls club) be relocated, that                Drive to Hills Street to connect existing pathways. The issues regarding a cycle path connected
             would also be a site for medium density housing, particularly for the elderly.                                     through to the town will be referred to Council’s Infrastructure Services Department.
             Submitter is seeking inclusion of paths and shared paths in the Scheme.
             Formed footpaths at the bottom of the cul-de-sac streets of Songbird Estate (Dollarbird Drive, Gerrygone
             Place, Friarbird Place and Whistler Way) lead into a greenbelt area. A shared pedestrian and bicycle path
             winding its way through this green area was to connect all of these formed footpaths. The other end of the
             footpath is the park with toilets at Subway Avenue. Path should be shown on the planning map. If it is not
             planned, it will never happen. Residents of Songbird Estate drive their cars to town, but they would have
             an active transport alternative if the footpath at the bottom of their streets fed into a shared path into town.
             It is such an obvious inclusion that this collector path should be shown on the planning maps.
 20842242    The plan has nominated a site at Myall St/Ferrells Road Cooroy for residential care. Given the timeframe           There are various properties zoned Medium Density Residential in Pomona which could contribute to          That no change be made to the New Noosa Plan as a result of this submission.
             for the New Noosa Plan (to 2036), one new aged care facility for the hinterland will be insufficient to cater      improved housing choice. Secondary dwellings are also an option for older residents wanting to stay in
             for the needs of an ageing population. The median age in Noosa Shire is 10 years above the state                   town where family or friends might occupy the balance of the house. The big residential blocks provide
             average and within six or seven years almost one third of all residents will be aged 65 or more. Already the       ample room for small lowset granny flats.
             shire has the third highest percentage of its population aged 65 or more of any local authority in the state.
                                                                                                                                Residential Care facilities have quite specific developmental needs and if developed in conjunction with
             Residents in Pomona have indicated that they wish to 'age in place' — in their own homes preferably, but           a retirement facility (as is the most frequent model) take up considerable land. Council has been
             within the town should they need to access aged care facilities. At present they can't and they usually seek       through a strategic analysis of looking at the various constraints to Pomona and were not able to find
             out an aged care bed at Noosaville or Tewantin, away from their support base and family.                           large parcels of land within the urban boundary obviously suitable for that purpose.
             Request Council identify land suitable for an aged care facility at Pomona, as it has done at Cooroy, and          The quantity of residential care provided for in Cooroy is significant under the draft scheme. If this
             apply the appropriate 'community facilities' zoning to it.                                                         eventuates it should reduce the need for Pomona residents to relocate to Tewantin or Noosaville and
                                                                                                                                may be no more than a 10 minute drive away.
             An aged care facility for Pomona would strengthen the town's social fabric and also create another avenue
             for job creation within a diversified local economy.
 20836819    Request to annex a small portion of Cooroora Creek Park (approx. 10 metres) at the rear of the Noosa               Council has provided significant financial and logistical support to the Museum over the last several      That no change be made to the New Noosa Plan as a result of this submission.
             Shire Museum, 29 Factory Street Pomona, to allow for a future extension of the museum. This would                  years including the Situation Analysis and an Action Plan. On the basis of this work and other
             require rezoning from open space to community facilities.                                                          concerns regarding the flood prone nature of this land, in the short to medium term there is not support
                                                                                                                                for expansion of the Museum building or erection of new buildings.
             The museum is cramped and from time to time, the Cooroora Historical Society, which manages the
             museum, has mused about an extension at the rear of the former council chambers, or the construction of            The rezoning of public open space for this purpose is not recommended.
             an annexe within the existing property boundary.
             There is insufficient land to make a proper job of things. In addition, the old shire building has a heritage
             designation, so the creation of a large, or expanded, display space must be in a separate building
             connected to the old.
             An annexe of sufficient size could be built there to a design that involves flood-proof construction, similar to
             the Pages Furniture Factory building next door.
             By taking the museum boundary into Cooroora Creek Park, beyond the rear of the factory building, the
             potential exists for car parking to be provided at the rear of the museum using an access off Mill Street
             through what is currently the Pages employee car park. (The existing parking space at the back of the
             museum would be required for the annexe.) The land that Pages use as a staff car park is actually part of
             Cooroora Creek Park.
             It would be a strange anomaly were Noosa Council to permit this situation to continue while not allowing an
             extension of the museum land into the park. The land is required to allow the museum to showcase the
             shire's history more completely and imaginatively.
             For Many years, Pages have sought to formalise this arrangement whereby factory workers have been
             parking on public parkland for more than 20 years.
             By using a small part of the park at the rear of the museum for museum purposes, the opportunity presents
             itself to negotiate a 'right of way' for the museum off the Pages car park, so that museum visitors could
             access the museum off Mill Street, thus avoiding having to park in busy Factory Street, where the nearby
             Orange Cafe generates considerable traffic movements.
             The area could be landscaped in an attractive way and a stronger link could be made to the Indigenous
             Island of Reconciliation in Cooroora Creek Park. Flooding could be addressed through construction of an
             earth berm that would protect both the museum and Page's factory.
             It is important that the Noosa Shire Museum remain within a Pomona setting, where the whole town
             becomes a lived experience for the visitor. It is also possible for visitors to experience Indigenous culture
             from the museum, through such initiatives as 'bush tucker walks' etc. This simply cannot be achieved within
             the tight confines of the Noosa Shire Museum.
             Please formalise the arrangement whereby a land swap is made with the owners of Pages Furniture
             Factory — the Mill Street land for that portion of Cooroora Creek Park currently used as the Pages staff car
             park and excise from Cooroora Creek Park a strip of land at the rear boundary of the council property on


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