2021-11-15 General Committee Meeting Agenda

GENERAL COMMITTEE MEETING AGENDA                                            15 NOVEMBER 2021


   This process resulted in improvements to the CHAP as follows:
       Pathway approach – more emphasis has been placed on showing how the adaptation
        response may be staged over time as risk profiles change or as more information is
        made available. Pathway diagrams and descriptions were added to the CHAP,
        consistent with other Councils’ approaches.
       Protecting Council assets – more emphasis has been placed on outlining what action
        the Council will take in relation to dune management and revegetation in high-risk areas.
        This has been identified as a critical priority for Council and the community in helping to
        build coastal resilience and manage erosion risks.
       More monitoring – more emphasis has been added in relation to the need to monitor
        changes over time. This includes enhancing our program of monitoring and data
        collection to inform future adaptation responses in partnership with the State
        Government, research agencies, CSIRO, Universities, and the Bureau of Meteorology
        (BOM) where possible.
       Clarity on Planning Scheme – One of the concerns raised with the draft CHAP, is that
        it impacts on private property rights and use rights. The CHAP is not a statutory planning
        document itself and therefore does not do this. It is the planning scheme (Noosa Plan
        2020) that sets the development requirements and land use outcomes. The CHAP will
        inform land use planning requirements and the revisions make clearer that the Council
        will take a ‘stepped’ monitor-manage-review approach to help inform appropriate land
        use planning responses. It recognises that the Council will need to amend the Noosa
        Plan 2020 to ensure it aligns with State Planning Policy requirements to address local
        coastal erosion risks, and that Council will also continue to actively monitor local erosion
        trends to inform management approaches. As part of the Ministerial Conditions imposed
        at the time of approving the Noosa Plan 2020, the State Government mandated a
        requirement for Council to finalise the CHAP and undertake any necessary planning
        scheme amendments to integrate the State Planning Policy.
   Second round consultation and proposed responses
   The second round of community consultation for the revised CHAP ran for a period of 3 weeks
   from 8 October to 1 November 2021 with a total of 53 submissions received. The following
   consultation activities were completed:
       Media statements from Council
       Information available through Your Say Noosa
       Email to community groups, business associations, utility providers and previous
        submitters inviting them to view the revised CHAP
       Social media posts
       Face to face and telephone discussions and email enquiries with the community relating
        to the CHAP.
   The submission comments were overwhelmingly focused on the Eastern Beaches erosion
   issues and ongoing concerns relating to the modelling and mapping, and in particular future
   land use policy changes that this may bring about through amendments to the planning
   scheme. There was also a number of comments relating to other localities including for Noosa
   North Shore.
   This has resulted in the follow key improvements:
       More mapping for other potential future erosion scenarios – Council will continue to
        investigate and undertake further work to determine best modelling approaches to
        provide a clear picture of the range of low to medium (best to worst case) scenarios for
        coastal erosion hazard along the open coast beaches.



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