Appendix A - Response to Noosa Plan

 DEOs                                                                                                            Comments
ix) maintaining coastal foreshores including near shore marine environments, beaches,
dunes, rocky headlands, beaches and river mouths in their natural state;
x) ensuring development protects coastal resources and values and provides for physical
coastal processes to occur naturally where adverse impacts are avoided as far as is
practicable, or where avoidance is not practicable, minimised and mitigated;
xi) maintaining the conservation of high proportions of vegetated land, as compared to
developed land, to distinguish Noosa Shire from other parts of south-east Queensland;
xii) maintaining the distinct vegetated character of Noosa Shire and the retention of
natural vegetation and landscaping with native species;
xiii) protecting sensitive areas of native bushland from the impacts of urban activities
such as domestic animals, escaped garden weeds, fertilisers and stormwater run-off;
xiv) increasing the amount of land protected for conservation purposes under public
ownership that ideally represent the full range of habitats and species found across
Noosa Shire, forming corridors for the safe movement and successful breeding of wildlife
within the Shire and beyond;
xv) the integrity of conservation reserves being supported by wider networks of open
space across Noosa Shire and beyond, comprising both natural habitat and areas capable
of regeneration or rehabilitation;
xvi) the upper reaches of the Noosa River remaining substantially undeveloped and
development in the lower reaches being consolidated within existing settlements to
protect the integrity of core habitats within ecologically important areas and connecting
linkages; and
xvii) development not impacting on views and vistas that characterise particular localities
in Noosa Shire including views to or from watercourses, beaches or riparian corridors
avoiding visual scarring of the hill slopes.
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 Koala offsets under the South East Queensland Koala Conservation State Planning Regulatory Provisions
(SPRP) may only be applied where located in areas shown as bushland habitat, high value rehabilitation habitat
or medium value rehabilitation habitat identified in the SPRP koala habitat values map.
i) RESIDENTIAL USES
Urban and rural settlement for residential use is contained within the defined urban                             The proposed rural residential development is located on the edge of the urban growth
growth boundaries shown on zoning maps ZM1- ZM9 by -                                                             boundary. However, it is considered that the land is subject to existing land use rights as a
i)development being within the planned capacity for roads, community services and                                result of the original rezoning approval.
infrastructure for the particular locality;
ii) providing Noosa Shire’s population access to a broad range of safe, secure and                               In addition, the proposed development including the change:
affordable housing that specifically caters for the current and projected demographic,                                 has been designed with consideration of the planned capacity for roads,



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