Planning & Environment Court Appeal No. 3746 Of 2023 – Application For A Material Change Of Use For Short Term Accommodation (15 Cabins) At 94 & 142 Noosa Drive, Noosa Heads · Attachment 1 – MCU22-0118 – Development Assessment Manager’S Report

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The subject site is subject to split zoning, being Tourist Accommodation Zone and Environmental
Management & Conservation Zone. Whilst the nature of the use is considered consistent and
expected within the Tourist Accommodation zoned portion of the land, the proposal to develop
land zoned as Environmental Management and Conversation, and outside of the mapped urban
boundary is not consistent with the Noosa Plan 2020 or community expectations of development
within the region.

The proposed development would result in an unacceptable loss of vegetation in a locality which
is ecologically important and environmentally sensitive and serves as an important ecological
linkage, and the proposed development is considered an overdevelopment of the land at the
expense of the natural values of the land.