NOOSA CIVIC submission

individual localities within the local government area and at a shire wide level and thereby
between the various localities in this local government area such as The Junction, Noosaville,
Tewantin, Noosa Heads, Sunshine Beach and the like. This strategic planning has also
acknowledged regional planning considerations in surrounding local government areas such
as Maroochydore.

Those DEOs in The Noosa Plan 2006 for commercial and retail uses as referenced in Section
3.1.3 (b) of The Noosa Plan 2006 state that all proposed commercial and office uses must be
based on, among other things:

  i.    A proportion of Noosa’s higher order needs fulfilled by centres in other areas,
        particularly the key regional centre of Maroochydore; and

  ii.   The Shire Business Centre, a Major Activity Centre for the purposes of the SEQ
        Regional Plan and the highest order centre within the former Noosa Shire, developed
        in stages consistent with the needs of the population of the Noosa Shire and areas to
        the immediate south.

The QIC development application is anchored, both in design and in demonstrating need, on
proposing two (2) additional supermarkets and one (1) discount department store and
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involves 22,870m GLA of additional and reconfigured retail floor space, 9,655m GFA of mall
and back of house area. The existing Noosa Civic development already includes one (1)
supermarket and one (1) department store in addition to a variety of speciality stores which
predominately used retail purposes. Consequently, the development of two (2) additional
supermarkets and one (1) discount department store as well as further speciality stores does
not respect that the strategic planning in The Noosa Plan 2006 adopts a basis whereby a
proportion of Noosa’s higher order needs are fulfilled in the key regional centre of
Maroochydore as identified in DEO 3.1.3 (b) i.

The information provided by QIC in an attempt to demonstrate the need for the above QIC
application of the nature and scale proposed suggests that in fact it will draw significantly on
the needs in other local government areas and in so doing is in direct competition to the key
regional centre of Maroochydore. In order to do so the proposal includes entertainment and
dining uses which can compete with other surrounding key areas such as Maroochydore.
The above QIC development application therefore is also in conflict with DEO 3.1.3 (b) ii. As
a direct consequence, the resulting scale and nature of these proposed entertainment and
dining uses will alter the intended hierarchy and balance of the existing local retail centres
such as the Noosa Junction and Noosaville area.


   2.   The QIC application does not comply with the proposed development of
        Precinct E1 of the Shire Business Centre in the Noosa Plan 2006 and will
        therefore deprive the local economy to become more robust by creating more
        diverse employment opportunities.

The Noosa Plan 2006 has incorporated a Shire Business Centre (SBC) Map under Schedule
4 of that planning scheme. This SBC Map identifies the various stages of the future
development of all land within the SBC. The above QIC development application clearly
conflicts with the planned expansion of Precinct E1 within the SBC as documented in The
Noosa Plan 2006. The Noosa Plan 2006 designates this particular site to be ultimately
developed for Employment (Technology based R&D, Business, Offices and Civic) based
businesses. It is essential that an appropriate located and dimensioned area/s be set aside
for such businesses in the responsible strategic planning for a local government area like
Noosa Shire. Unfortunately the above QIC application proposes predominately retail based
developments or other “ancillary” uses that would normally only be developed in such a
location of the scale and nature proposed when supporting retail development and adding to
its ability to become a key regional retail centre. These other “ancillary” uses do not assist
the QIC proposal to in any way to address the strategic preferences for Precinct E1 in the
SBC as planned for in The Noosa Plan 2006. In fact these “ancillary” uses consume more
land that was planned to be used to generate employment opportunities.