Town Planning Report - Noosa Professional and Medical Centre

1. Introduction

The purpose of this report is to address the town planning issues associated with an
application for a ‘permissible change’ to the current development approval for the
‘Noosa Professional and Medical Centre’, at 90 Goodchap Street, Noosaville. The
application seeks to change a number of conditions of the approval (refer Attachment
1).

The development of the site has been undertaken in two (2) stages. While the
development has been constructed and is operating, some of the conditions of approval
have not been satisfied.

The Council advised by email on 9 May 2014, that conditions 7.2, 8.2, 10.2 & 11, 17 &
18, 36-40 and 55 have not been complied. Consequently, a review of the development
approval was undertaken and it is now intended to amend a number of conditions,
which are discussed further below.

The changes to be made to the approval primarily relate to staging, the limits placed on
some of the use areas and the provision of car parking at ground level with the deletion
of the proposed multistorey car park.

The application also provides for updated proposal plans that reflect the development
on the land. It is also intended to allow for greater flexibility with respect to the useable
floor areas for some of the uses so that the development can better respond to market
demand, without impacting on car parking demand.

2. Permissible Change

Under section 367 of the Sustainable Planning Act 2009 (SPA), a ‘permissible change’
for a development approval …is a change to the approval that would not, because of
the change:

    (a) result in a substantially different development; or
    (b) if the application for the approval were remade including the change:
            i. require referral to additional concurrence agencies; or
           ii. for an approval for assessable development that previously did not require
                impact assessment—require impact assessment; or
    (c) for an approval for assessable development that previously required impact
         assessment—be likely, in the responsible entity’s opinion, to cause a person to
         make a properly made submission objecting to the proposed change, if the
         circumstances allowed; or
    (d) cause development to which the approval relates to include any prohibited
         development.

The proposed development has been constructed generally in accordance with the
approved plans. The exception to this is the provision of a multi-storey car park, which
has not been constructed.



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“Noosa Professional and Medical Centre” – November 2014