Response to Information Request - Received on 19/04/2012 · OPW11/0335

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3.0        LOCAL ENVIRONMENT


The site is presently developed as a caravan park (the Peregian Beach Caravan Park) in the
Eastern Beaches Locality of the Noosa Shire Council planning scheme. The site is about 200m
west of the coastline on the western edge of the Peregian Beach village (Figure 1). Land uses
in the Peregian Beach Village area surrounding the proposed development site includes retail
and businesses, sporting facilities, a kindergarten, and the Noosa National Park.


The topography has    an average grade of 3.6% (Brown Consulting, 2007) that slopes in a

westerly direction from the retail and business area on the east of the proposed development
site, across the site and towards the Noosa National Park. Visual inspection indicated that land
on the northern and southern boundaries slopes away from the proposed development site.

Therefore stormwater will not enter or leave the site in a northern or southern direction, but will
flow in a westerly direction from the upslope retail and business area, across the development,
and into a wetland buffer on the edge of the Noosa National Park.


About two thirds of the existing site is cleared for caravans and camping, and consists of mown
grass under a light canopy of Broad-leaved Paperbark (Melaleuca quinquenerva). Down-slope
of the cleared caravan park area is a densely grown strip of highly disturbed vegetation that
includes native and exotic species.                           Remnant native wet-heath      vegetation grows along the
western boundary as an                                       the           National Park (Natural Solutions, 2007). The
                                    extension1of.    Nopsa
wet heath is the receiving
                                     environm;nt for sto[mwate~runoff.
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For this development it was proposed that the treatment train   cOfply with the Water Quality
Objectives for loads reductions required by..the Queensland Water Quality Guidelines (DERM
2009) (Table 3-1). The loads reductions wate~quality design objectives are important because
stormwater flow is intermittent, with most’exportlof sediment and, nutrients occurring during a
few short rainfall events each year.                        Manag~Q1ent’’needs to cover those few rainfall events, and
design objectives for annual load reductions                                 modate for h~gh                              events.
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                        Table 3-1: Water Quality Desigr;’l Objectives,for Loads Reductions
                                                                                                   s~ormwater-flow
                        Indicator                                                      Water Quality Objectives

                  Suspended Solids                    ~~            .   ------...----_.      80% reduction

                  Total Phosphorus                                                          60 % reduction

                     Total Nitrogen                                                         45 % reduction


3.1        Site Features


          The planned development seeks to change the use of the site from a caravan park to
          visitor accommodation              (apartments and                beach      shacks), with commercial, retail and
          restaurant uses. The proposal includes two (2)accommodation buildings and thirty (30)
          beach shacks with two (2), three (3)or (4)four bedrooms. The commercial development
          will face David Low              Way, and will provide a street level frontage of retailing and
          restaurant services, with an accommodation module on the upper level of the building.
          The proposal includes 140 car parking spaces and 8 motor cycle bays across the site,
          which are located under the accommodation and commercial buildings.


          Features of the apartments will be utilisation of aspect (passive solar access, natural
          ventilation ofbuildings), topography (stormwater management), and existing native
          vegetation. The resort will have a full-time site manager.




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