Development Assessment Report

Building design and built form
Performance Outcomes                    Acceptable Outcomes                      Comment
Building design and built form
Height and Scale                        AO7.1                                Not Applicable
PO7                                     Buildings and structures are no more No buildings are proposed within the
Buildings and structures—               than 4 metres in building height.    Environmental Management and
(a) are low rise, and have a                                                 Conservation zoned land.
     maximum building height of         AO7.2
     1 storey;                          The maximum length of wall in one
(b) have a minimal footprint on the     place is 15 metres.
     land;
(c) do not visually dominate            AO7.3
     the site or surrounding spaces;    For any individual building or roofed
     and                                structure, no more than 150m² is
(d) are low set and of a smaller        under the roof.
     scale to the
     prevailing vegetation around       AO7.4
     them.                              Where excavation is required, the
                                        maximum portion of the exposed
                                        external façade of the building cannot
                                        exceed 4 metres in building height.

                                        Editor's note—refer to figure AP3-
                                        13A


Setbacks and siting                    AO8.1                                   Not Applicable
PO8                                    Buildings and structures are sited on No buildings are proposed within the
Buildings and structures are           that part of the site with the least    Environmental Management and
appropriately set back so as to—       impact on the ecological values of the Conservation zoned land.
(a) avoid and minimise disturbance land, water quality, coastal processes
     on the ecological values of the   and heritage values.
     land, waterways and wetlands,
     water quality, coastal processes AO8.2
     and heritage values;              Buildings and structures are set back
(b) provide adequate distance from (a) 20 metres from a street frontage;
     adjoining land uses;              (b) 10 metres from boundaries
(c) allow for vegetation retention          adjoining land in a residential
     and regrowth around buildings          zone;
     and structures; and               (c) a distance greater than the width
(d) protect the natural character and       of the riparian buffer area shown
     visual amenity of the Noosa River      on Biodiversity, Waterway and
     system and other watercourses          Wetland Overlay maps;
                                       (d) 100 metres from the level of
                                            Highest Astronomical Tide (HAT)
                                            in tidal areas (and to incorporate
                                            natural vegetation and other
                                            buffer elements)
                                       (e) 50 metres from freshwater
                                            habitats (and to incorporate
                                            natural vegetation and other
                                            buffer elements)
                                       (f) 4.5 metres to other boundaries;
                                            and
                                       (g) 3 metres from another building or
                                            structure on the same site.

Building Design                         AO9.1                                 Not Applicable
PO9                                     Development does not result in a net No buildings are proposed within the
Buildings and structures present high   loss of native vegetation.            Environmental Management and
quality built form and landscape                                              Conservation zoned land.
design consistent with the natural      AO9.2
setting and landscape features of       Buildings are of a lightweight
the site by—                            construction and incorporate natural
(a) responding to the landscape and     sustainable materials where possible,
     landform of their site;            including natural timber and natural