MCU14/0106 & OPW15/0001 Information Request Response Report (absent appendices)

                                                                                                     Noosa Civic Expansion
                       28 Eenie Creek Road, Noosaville and parts of the road reserves of Hofmann Drive and Walter Hay Drive




Table of Contents
1     Introduction                                                                                                       5
2     Planning                                                                                                           6
      2.1     Noosa Business Centre Planning                                                                       6
      2.2     Office Provision                                                                                     9
      2.3     Non-standard Uses                                                                                   10
3     Economics                                                                                                        12
      3.1     Trade Area Definition                                                                               12
      3.2     Existing Noosa Civic Vacancies                                                                      13
      3.3     Vacancy Rates                                                                                       13
      3.4     Centres Analysis                                                                                    14
      3.5     Noosaville Intercept Survey Methodology                                                             14
      3.6     Intercept Surveys                                                                                   14
      3.7     Transaction Data                                                                                    15
      3.8     Retail Impacts                                                                                      15
      3.9     Retail Expenditure Propensity                                                                       15
      3.10    Visitor Expenditure                                                                                 16
      3.11    Major Retailers Gap Analysis                                                                        16
      3.12    Retail Floor Space Deficit                                                                          17
      3.13    Turnover Productivity                                                                               18
      3.14    Impact on Centres Network                                                                           18
      3.15    Target Closure                                                                                      18
      3.16    Employment Effects                                                                                  19
      3.17    Expenditure Growth                                                                                  20
      3.18    Consumer Travel                                                                                     20
      3.19    Office Accommodation                                                                                21
      3.20    Office Demand                                                                                       21
      3.21    Further Development of NBC                                                                          22
4     Traffic Engineering                                                                                              24
      4.1     Traffic                                                                                             24
      4.2     Traffic                                                                                             24
      4.3     Traffic                                                                                             25
      4.4     Traffic                                                                                             26
      4.5     Traffic                                                                                             27
      4.6     Traffic                                                                                             28
      4.7     Traffic                                                                                             28
      4.8     Parking Rates                                                                                       28
      4.9     Bus Interchange Planning                                                                            29
      4.10    Cycle and Pedestrian Facilities                                                                     29
5     Hydrology                                                                                                        31
      5.1     Water Quality                                                                                       31
      5.2     Water Quality                                                                                       31
      5.3     Treatment Devices                                                                                   32
      5.4     Legal Point of Discharge                                                                            32


June 2015                                          Cardno HRP                                                            iii