Minor Change Report MCU24 0143 01 (As Published)

               2.         BACKGROUND
               A development approval for a short term accommodation (2 cabins) was approved 22 September
               2025.
               3.         ASSESSMENT
               3.1. Instruments for Statutory Assessment
               Under the Planning Act 2016 the application must be assessed against each of the following
               statutory planning instruments to the extent they are relevant to the development:
               •          State Planning Policy;
               •          South East Queensland Regional Plan;
               •          Planning Regulation 2017; and
               •          Noosa Plan 2020 (20 March 2026).
               3.2. Statutory Process
               The applicant has requested to make a minor change to a development approval under s78 of the
               Planning Act 2016. An application for a minor change to a development approval can only be made
               in circumstances where a change would constitute a ‘minor change’.
               The proposed change to the development approval requested by the applicant is determined to
               constitute a minor change on the grounds that:
               •        the development would not result in substantially different development;
               •        the change does not include prohibited development;
               •        the change would not require the application to be referred to an additional referral agency or
                        cause a referral agency to have regard to new matters prescribed by regulation;
               •        where the original application was code assessable, the change would not cause the
                        application to become impact assessable.
               3.3. Statutory Instruments – Planning Scheme
               The original application was lodged and assessed under the now superseded Noosa Plan 2020
               (25 September 2020). Pursuant to s81 of the Planning Act 2017, Council must consider the
               planning scheme in effect when the original development application was lodged, however Council
               may give weight to Noosa Plan 2020 (20 March 2026) as the planning scheme in effect at the time
               of the minor change application being lodged.
               The following codes from Noosa Plan 2020 are applicable to this development:
               •          Rural Zone Code;
               •          Visitor Accommodation Use Code;
               •          Works Codes;
               •          Biodiversity, Waterways and Wetlands Overlay Code;
               •          Bushfire Hazard Overlay Code;
               •          Landslide Hazard Overlay Code


               The application has been found to generally comply with all applicable statutory instruments. The
               pertinent issues arising out of the assessment are discussed below:

                                                   The Noosa Plan         As approved
                               Criteria                                                           Proposal         Complies
                                                         2020
                    Building height
                    •    Storeys              2 storeys max           storey               1 storey                   


                    •     metres              8 metres                less than 8 metres   4 metres                   


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