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

 Submitter   Summary of Submissions and Grounds of Submission                                                                   Planner’s response                                                                                           Recommendation
 21005364    •     Security concerns
 21005365    •     No care and consideration given by short-term visitors to our town and neighbourhoods, in terms of
                   noise, rubbish, driving conditions, local facilities, etc
 21005671
             •     Another negative impact of a holiday property in a residential area is that I don't have the security of
 21005706          knowing my neighbour and being able to look our for them and have them look out for me, and I
                   believe that this negatively effects the amenity of the neighbourhood and community in which we live.
 21005859
             •     The people who raise their kids there, the committed workers who make the place run, who
 21005860          contribute their whole lives to the making of the fantastic place Noosa is...They are the only
 21005874          stakeholders that matter.;

 21004363
             •     No longer feel comfortable or safe;
             •   Considering selling and moving elsewhere
 21005898
             Incompatible with residential
 21005952
             •     Level of activity not compatible with residential – coming and going, cleaning services, guest traffic,
 21006009          active during the day, high noise levels, late nights, long hours on the pool and use of outdoor areas,
 21006015          loud music, large number of guests and visitors, guests coming and going.
             •     Activity levels and noise akin to a business operation;
 21006029
             •     Number of bedrooms does not limit number of beds and use of bunks and sofa beds; Excessive
 21006095          numbers of guests and overcrowding;
 21006096    •     Bucks parties, Hens nights and parties in general are frequent because of the number of guests this
                   house can accommodate. It has only 4 bedrooms but there are bunk beds and a sofa bed too.
 21006099
             •     Camper vans and caravans used for additional guests.
 21006171
             •     Absentee owners have no responsibility for property or response to complaints;
 21006746    •     Use of pools and outdoor area creates noise and often goes on until the early hours.
 21006749    •     If you complain, noise reduces for a while and then starts up again.
 21006888    •     there is no consideration by the visitors nor the real estate agencies for the neighbours that are
                   effected by excessive noise and disruption
 21008742
             •     late night noise which keeps disturbing residents, lack of sleep;
 21012677
             •     Barking dogs left unattended;
 24003949    •   Need to limit the number of people on site
 21004774    Carparking and traffic issues
 21004783    •     Increased traffic and cars parked in streets;
 21003915    •     Some streets are too narrow.
 21006776    •     Parking at hotels is provided and the same should apply to any business making money out of short
                   stay visitors.
 21006756
             •     Ever increasing granny flats in back yards- no additional parking has been provided for the lessees
 21006763          of these properties (and they are definitely not "grannies").
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8.3.1.2           Existing Use Rights
 Submitter   Submission and Grounds of Submission                                                                               Planners’ Response                                                                                           Recommendation
 20985619    Question legitimacy of existing use rights                                                                         Question legitimacy of existing use rights                                                                   That no change be made to the New Noosa Plan as a result of these submissions.
 21004779    •    If “Short-term accommodation” is a different use to a dwelling house and was not previously a defined         •    Under the current planning scheme, The Noosa Plan 2006 and former State Planning Legislation
                  use for residential areas, how can they have an as of right use going forward?                                     (Integrated Planning Act) which The Noosa Plan was developed under, short term accommodation
 21004470
             •    Therefore should be no grandfathering of existing use rights                                                       was not a defined separate use as it related to a dwelling house.
 20985498                                                                                                                       •    When the current Noosa Plan was developed, the proliferation of short term accommodation within
             Distorted property values
 20993393                                                                                                                            dwelling houses was not anticipated. There was the occasional holiday home that was mostly used
             •    granting 'existing use rights' to some and not others will create a two-tiered market;                             by owners and friends and otherwise let out.
 21006767
             •    investors will likely purchase properties with existing use rights in order to achieve flexibility over the   •    With regard to the definition of a dwelling house and its use for short term accommodation, legal
 21004215         asset;                                                                                                             advice provided to Council states that “under the Current Noosa Plan the use of a house even
             •    houses with existing use rights may be easier to sell and attract a higher price, as they will attract both        though it was short term (without separate definition) is caught in the definition of dwelling house.
 21004214                                                                                                                            With the new Planning Act 2017, Short term accommodation is now defined as a separate use and
                  investors and home-seekers;
                                                                                                                                     therefore Councils New Planning Scheme must use these definitions and regulate the use. The



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