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

                                                                                 MCU14/0106




Street Address:              28 Eenie Creek Rd NOOSAVILLE QLD 4566
Real Property Description:   Lot 3 SP 246584
Planning Scheme:             The Noosa Plan (16 September 2013)
2    INFORMATION REQUIRED

The information requested is set out below:
PLANNING
Issue – Noosa Business Centre Planning
The proposal seeks a substantial increase in the size of the Noosa Civic retail shopping
centre, predominantly within Precinct E1 Employment (Technology Based R&D, Business
Offices & Civic) identified on the Shire Business Centre Map within The Noosa Plan. The
development raises significant conflicts with the planning scheme intent for the site. In
particular the limit on the amount of retail businesses within the Noosa Business Centre
(NBC) and the land use intent to provide a range of non-retail uses that create a diversified
business centre that expands Noosa’s business sector and employment options.

The application proposes significantly different development to that anticipated for the NBC
in the absence of detailed assessment or reviewed master planning of the NBC as a whole.
The application also suggests alternate future development scenarios not provided for
within the current master planning for the NBC, such as office buildings displacing carparks
already required for the Noosa Civic shopping centre.

Information Required
1      Provide detailed assessment of the likely land use needs on the remaining
       undeveloped NBC lands to appropriately cater for the diversified economic and civic
       needs of Noosa Shire.
2      Provide detailed assessment as to whether the planning controls for the NBC are
       appropriate to facilitating future commercial office development in terms of the scale
       and nature of commercial office space likely to be demanded by the market; and the
       extent to which the development proposal preserves such opportunities.
3      Provide an assessment of the extent to which the intended role and function of NBC
       is achievable, and if not, articulate an alternative role and function that remains
       broadly consistent with NBC designation in the SEQ Regional Plan.
4      Provide amended master planning for the site indicating the applicant’s alternate
       “vision” for the NBC.

Issue – Office Provision
The proposed development does not incorporate any significant element of commercial
offices that would advance the non-retail knowledge-based aspirations of The Noosa Plan
for Precinct E1 to any meaningful extent.

Information Required
5      Provide amended plans or justification as to why the development could not
       incorporate a significant portion of office development within a mixed-use proposal.




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