2016-07-12 - Item 13 - Att 1 - Extractive Resources and Mineral Planning Study 2016

Extractive resources are shown on the Planning Scheme Strategy Map and identified in the Natural
Resource overlay. The Natural Resources Overlay Code deals with development and identifies
resource processing, separation and haulage areas.

Extractive industry is defined as an Industrial Business Type 3 Extractive –

        Winning from the land (or the bed of a watercourse) gravel, rock, sand, soil, stone, or other
        similar materials. The use class includes the treatment of those materials to produce a
        varied product. The term does not include the use of premises for an activity authorised
        under the Mineral Resources Act 1989.

The Business Use code contains limited provisions to assess extractive industry development
dealing with proximity to Noosa River, haulage routes, visual impacts on roads and rehabilitation.

The Noosa Plan identifies two Key Resources Areas (KRA’s 56 & 57). Seven (7) locally significant
resources and eleven (11) mining leases shown in Table 3.4 (and Appendix 1).

Table 3.4
Key Resource Area                                     Resource
Ringtail Creek KRA 56                                 Quarry Rock
Wahpunga Range – KRA 57                               Hard rock. Large reserves of hard rock.

Local Resource Areas and Mining lease                 Resource
Ringtail Creek                                        Clay and shale
Nandroya (west of Bruce Highway and Holts Rd)         Clay and shale
McGilchrist pits (West-Ridge Nursery Road Cooroy      Clay and shale
(300& 309 Kennedys Rd)
White pits (125 lake McDonald drive)                  Clay
Glenwood pits (666 Louis Bazzo Dr )                   Clay and shale
Kin Kin Creek (between Gympie Kin Kin Rd and Dr       Sand, gravel and loam
Pages Rd)
Mining Lease
Brogden’s pit                                         Brick Clay



3.6.1       Draft amendments to The Noosa Plan
In August 2015, Council publicly notified draft amendments to The Noosa Plan. The amendments
include changes to the Natural Resources Overlay mapping for KRA 56 and 57 and additional
provisions in the Natural Resources Overlay Code to be consistent with the SPP requirements.

The amendments also include changes to the Business Use Code assessment requirements for
extractive industry including more comprehensive provisions for buffers, separation and amenity,
management of operations, landscaping, hours of operation, traffic and transport and rehabilitation.

Following public notification of the draft amendments, at its meeting on 19 November 2015 Council
resolved to:

        Write to the Department of Infrastructure, Local Government and Planning requesting a
        review of KRA 57 (Wahpunga Range), specifically suggesting that a more locally
        appropriate separation area be determined having regard to topographical features that
        may provide a natural buffer.

In response to this resolution, a letter requesting a review of the separation area boundary of KRA
57 was forwarded to the Minister.

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