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

26. Heritage Overlay
Table 26.1: Submissions on first round of consultation
 Submitter   Submission and Grounds of Submission                                                                               Planners’ Response                                                                                 Recommendation
 20868155    How is Noosa integrating the Aboriginal Cultural Heritage State Planning Policy? How were Kabi Kabi people         Council has been actively engaging with the Kabi Kabi people on a range of council and             That no change be made to the New Noosa Plan as a result of this submission.
             engaged upfront when the New Noosa Plan was in the plan-making process and was there any discussion                environment related activities, including the new Noosa Plan mapping and wording.
             around a map or planning scheme provisions?
                                                                                                                                The state have indicated that council has meet the state interest requirements for Aboriginal
             How is Noosa Council showing that they comply with the State Planning Policies, in particular in regards to        cultural heritage.
             Aboriginal Cultural Heritage, in order to be signed off by the Minister?
                                                                                                                                The planning scheme recognises Aboriginal cultural heritage in the Strategic Framework and
             Refer to Brisbane City Plan, Toowoomba Reconfiguration Code and Tweed Shire Council for examples of                deals with protection of broader cultural landscape values generally through the codes, overlay
             planning scheme models that work.                                                                                  maps and the Biodiversity, Waterways and Wetlands overlay code. There is no specific
                                                                                                                                schedule or overlay map relating the aboriginal cultural heritage sites or values. Protection of
                                                                                                                                aboriginal heritage sites is provided through the Aboriginal Cultural Heritage Act.
 20859022    While the plan includes provision "for inclusion in or removal from Schedule 3 Heritage Sites", there is no such   Council has commenced a review of its heritage study. The Cooroy-Tewantin Road Character           That:
             allowance at all for the vaguely described 'Character Areas' mentioned in the Plan. Suggests a methodology         Area may be reviewed at this time. Guidelines will be prepared to explain the process for
             for the nomination, and subsequent inclusion in the plan, of 'Character Areas' [how to action a nomination,        removing/including heritage sites and character areas from the planning scheme.                    -         Council review guidelines for inclusion/removal of Heritage Sites on the heritage
             reason for the nomination, advertising of the nomination, grounds for objection to the nomination, public                                                                                                                       list and provide additional guidelines explaining the inclusion of new character
             consultation about the nomination, etc,] but also an acknowledgement of the indefeasible rights of existing        This information may inform future amendments to the Noosa Planning Scheme.                                  areas including criteria.
             proprietors affected by the nomination. Similarly, the Plan should include the requirements necessary for the                                                                                                         -         Council review Cooroy-Tewantin Road Character Area as part of the upcoming
             removal of all, or a part, of a 'Character Area' from the Plan, following a regulated criterium.                                                                                                                                review of the Noosa Shire Historical Heritage Study.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   -         No change to the New Noosa Plan be made as a result of this submission
             In relation to Cooroy – Tewantin Road character area, it appears that this 'character area' was included in the
             current/original town plan, despite objections at the time. Perhaps it is the right time to remedy the situation
             The 'character area' appears to have been selected on a very broad, (and not very well thought out), stroke of
             a pen, without due consideration to the various components of dwellings, etc, that make up this 'Area'; just a
             rather blunt "26 to 52 Tewantin Road".
             Objects to Section 8.2.7.2 (e) (ii) which describes the area as "The relatively large allotments with
             Queens!ander vernacular style timber and iron' houses on stumps, many featuring verandah' elements,
             sunhoods to windows' and wall openings' and simple roof designs', either gabled or hipped are retained."
             •    All these properties are outlined in Survey Plan C.560.2 (R.P C5602) and virtually all these properties —
                  and most of the properties in Opal St, Diamond St, Kauri St and Miva St which are delineated on this
                  plan - have equal, or larger, areas. So how can these house blocks be described as "relatively large
                  areas"?
             •    Iron roofs rust so they have been replaced, some with tiles, others have solar panels.
             •    Most of the timber posts have been replaced, some have been built in below with besser block
                  construction
             •    Varandahs are not a common feature – some have been closed in during renovations and some
                  expanded into large decks
             •    One property has sunhoods, since replaced with fabric
             •    Asbestos laden walls should not be protected
             •    At least one property has a high front wall and you can’t see the hose at all
             •    Construction dates vary significantly so no one period consistently depicted
             •    There is nothing tangible available that would allow these properties to be 'grouped', other than (simply)
                  "they are on the same side of the road!"
             (Submitter provides a photographic commentary on individual properties.)
             Disagreement with Section 8.2.7.2 (e) (iii) which states: "The Anglican Church of the Holy Nativity at 46
             Tewantin Road contributes to the Tewantin Road Character Area's features."
             Buildings are actually in Miva St and don’t contribute much at all. The church building was demolished by a
             cyclone in the mid 1950s, and then rebuilt. And how can a shipping container — apparently used for storage —
             contribute to a 'Character Area's features?'
             In this township there are a lot of houses that could qualify for heritage listing, and several sections on this
             eastern part of the town (Miva St and Kauri St come to mind) do have a solid area of houses built 'between
             war' and 'post-war, much more so than this strip in Tewantin Road that has been wrongly labelled as a
             'Character Area'. [But those streets also have a modicum of houses built at a later date.]
             I request Council delete Section 8.2.7.2 (e) from the New Noosa Plan.




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