ENDORSEMENT OF NOOSA LOCAL DISASTER MANAGEMENT PLAN 2023 · Attachment 1 Noosa Local Disaster Management Plan 2023

Section 3.3


Human-Social
                                                        3.3.5       Access to Motor Vehicles

                                                        Within Noosa 3.5% of people do not have access to        percentages of dwellings without access to motor
                                                        a motor vehicle which is lower than the state average    vehicles are Noosaville and Tewantin (6%). Therefore,
                                                        of 5.7%. The two communities with areas of very high     these areas may need extra assistance in evacuating.



                                                        3.3.6       Vulnerable Persons

                                                        The Noosa Council area includes people who may be        •    Hibiscus Noosa Outlook – 71 St Andrews Drive,
                                                        highly vulnerable to the impacts of disasters. At the         Tewantin
                                                        2021 Census, 29.6% of the population identified as       •    Laguna Estate – 21 Lake Weyba Drive, Noosaville
                                                        experiencing one or more long term health conditions.    •    Southern Cross Noosa Waters – 39 Lake Weyba
                                                        As at December 2021, there were 1,598 recipients              Drive, Noosaville
                                                        of the disability support pension in the Noosa Shire.    •    Riverlands Retirement Village – 139 Moorondil
                                                        The Department of Communities, Child Safety and               Street, Tewantin
                                                        Disability Services provides disability services,        •    Palm Lake Resort - 19 Trading Post Road, Cooroy
                                                        support and facilities to people with a disability and
                                                        their carers living in Noosa.                            Additional facilities are currently in approval and / or
                                                                                                                 construction stage. Aged care facilities in the region
                                                        Wesley Care Tewantin is a specialist disability          are generally well connected and resilient and have
                                                        accommodation option that provides space for up to       robust business continuity plans in place.
                                                        six people.                                              At the time of the 2016 Census, 110 people in the
                                                                                                                 Noosa LGA were considered homeless.
                                                        There are five aged care facilities located across the   Within all communities, for any number of reasons,
                                                        region:                                                  members may be, or become, vulnerable for shorter
                                                                                                                 or longer terms. Such reasons include a reliance
                                                        •       Carramar – 186 Cooroy Noosa Road, Tewantin       on mechanical life support systems (e.g. dialysis,
                                                        •       Kabara – 120 Topaz Street, Cooroy                ventilators), a culturally or linguistically diverse
                                                        •       Ozcare – 80 Cooyar Street, Noosa Heads           background, isolation, little social support or high
                                                        •       Calvary – 119 Moorindil Street, Tewantin         levels of socio-economic disadvantage, visitors to
                                                        •       Arcare – Goodchap Street / Val Crescent,         the region, or chronic or acute health conditions. In
                                                                Tewantin                                         2017-2018 the Australian Bureau of Statistics found
                                                                                                                 just under half of Australians had one or more chronic
                                                        In addition, there are six retirement villages:          health conditions and 1 in 5 reported having a mental
                                                                                                                 or behavioural condition (ABS, 2017-2018).
                                                        •       Noosa Domain – 35 Walter Hay Drive, Noosaville



                                                        3.3.7       Community Preparedness & Capacity

                                                        Notwithstanding the limitations of a small percentage    There is a relatively low percentage of new residents
                                                        of the populace, the community is essentially regarded   within Noosa (16.5% moved in the last year and 44.8%
                                                        as having the capacity to respond to and recover         in the last five years) which is more or less consistent
                                                        from most hazard situations. Pragmatic and practical     with Queensland averages.
                                                        values in the community engender a significant
                                                        degree of self-reliance, which brings stability,
                                                        capability and sustainability.



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