2015-08-18 Planning and Organisation Committee Agenda

PLANNING & ORGANISATION COMMITTEE MEETING AGENDA                                                 18 AUGUST 2015


6                        SURVEY & REGISTER OF NOOSAVILLE INDUSTRIAL AREA BUSINESSES
DOCUMENT INFORM AT ION




Author                              Manager, Planning & Environment, Kerri Coyle
                                    Department of Planning & Infrastructure

Index                               ECM/Subject/Industrial Zone Survey/Audit (Noosaville)

Attachments                         1.    Summary of Survey Results
                                    2.    Map of Noosaville Industrial Businesses

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Not Applicable

RECOMMENDATION
That Council note the report by the Manager, Planning & Environment to the Planning &
Organisation Committee Meeting dated 18 August 2015 and
A.                       Use the results of the survey of the Noosaville Industrial area to inform decisions on
                         industrial and broader business land allocation and mix of uses in the next planning
                         scheme; and
B.                       Request officers to regularly monitor the area to ensure that any new businesses are
                         compliant with the industrial zoning.


REPORT
A survey was undertaken of all Noosaville industrial area businesses during May and June
this year. The audit was undertaken for a number of reasons:

                       To develop a register of existing businesses in the industrial area, with the register
                         intended to assist in monitoring the area to ensure that any new businesses are
                         compliant with the industrial zoning;
                       To provide information to owners and tenants on the purpose of the industrial area as
                         the number of non-industrial businesses that had established in the industrial area
                         without approval was thought to have increased; and
                       To provide useful background data for future planning purposes, including the
                         development of a new planning scheme for Noosa Shire.

The Noosaville Industrial estate is Noosa’s principle industrial centre and the only industrial
area in the coastal part of the Shire. The Noosa Plan seeks to protect the area for industrial
functions to the exclusion of incompatible uses including residential, community, commercial
business, retail business and most sport and recreation uses. The area provides important
industries and service-related businesses to the whole of Noosa, but particularly the coastal
area of the Shire.

The Noosa Plan defines industrial business as follows:

Industrial business means the conduct of an industrial business activity, where goods or
products are produced, manufactured, dismantled, altered, repacked, repaired or stored at a
scale greater than defined by retail business. Any space dedicated for administration or
accounting work in connection with such operations does not exceed 20% of the use area.




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