MCU14/0053 - Proposal Report

Proposal Report       Proposed Material Change of Use of Premises for Retail Business - Type 2 Shop and Salon over Land situated at 15 Noosa Drive, Noosa Heads
                      described as Lot 6 on N21827
Applicant:            Cammeray Investments Pty Ltd



             4. The site is in close proximity to existing public transport facilities with the main local covered
                bus stop being within 30 metres.

             5. The is close proximity to sizeable existing public parking areas such as that area starting
                within 20 metres to the south-west at Lions Park and that other nearby area 25 metres to the
                north-west.

             6. Unlike some other dominant uses in the immediate area, for dining or tourist-accommodation
                purposes, the proposed additions to the existing shop use are not considered to generate a
                large amount specific customer car journeys. The use is frequented by pedestrians who
                largely either park on-site at their accommodation, use public transport, or patron the
                proposed use as an aside to their journey to Hastings Street. Another large portion of the
                use’s patronage is backpackers, who do not commonly utilise car transport, rather public
                transport, accommodation facility-provided transport, or pedestrian networks. As such, the
                provision of car parking is not considered to be an essential requirement on the basis of the
                proposed use in the context of the surrounding commercial/tourism area.

             7. The proposal is for additional area for display, storage, workshop elements of the existing
                use, which would otherwise need to be carried out off-site. The workshop and storage
                components are considered to generate minimum additional carparking requirements
                especially when appreciating the additions will reduce staff trips to off-site workshops and
                storage.

             8. The applicant is prepared to make an appropriate contribution to community parking facilities
                as a result of any shortfall in onsite parking for the proposed shop additions that is considered
                to be reasonable and relevant.

             Combining the considerations of the uses’ type and patronage, relative size and location, and the
             particular intent of the additional area to potentially decrease use-related traffic, it is considered
             that the provision of on-site parking is not an essential or practical requirement of the proposal.

             The building is appropriately sited within perhaps the most ideal nexus of public transport and
             pedestrian networks within Noosa Shire, and as expressed above, receives significant amounts
             of patronage from these alternate transport networks, as well as visitors utilising their
             accommodations’ on-site parking and facility-provided transport. As stated above the applicant is
             prepared to make an appropriate contribution to community parking facilities as a result of any
             shortfall in onsite parking for the proposed shop additions and that is considered to be reasonable
             and relevant.

             7.2.2.4 Landscaping Code

             The existing site is already well landscaped, and the applicant is proposing to enhance the facility
             where required, to provide an attractive aesthetic, as discussed in the Noosa Heads Locality
             Code tabled in 7.2.2.1.


7 . 2 .3 O ve r l a ys

The site is mapped as being affected by two overlays relating to;

             -    flooding (minimum floor height); and
             -    acid sulfate soils (high potential acid sulfate soils 0-5m AHD) and
             -    medium bushfire hazard.

Appropriate conditions are able to be imposed if relevant.




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