Town Planning Report and Appendices - Cooroibah

          State Planning Policy (SPP)

On 2 December 2013, the Queensland Government adopted its new single State
Planning Policy (SPP). The SPP replaces the previous multiple policies in
existence. The SPP sets out policies on matters of state interest in relation to
planning and development, and provides a key framework for the government's
broader commitment to planning reform.

The SPP identifies the state's interests in planning and development and how
these are to be dealt with in planning instruments, Council development
assessment processes and in designating land for community infrastructure.

The SPP has not been reflected in The Noosa Plan, and therefore the
proposed development requires assessment against the ‘interim development
assessment provisions’ as outlined in Part E of the SPP.

In accordance with the Part E interim development assessment provisions of the
SPP, there are three (3) codes triggered and addressed in Table 3 below.

Table 3 – Assessment of Interim Development Assessment Provisions

        State Interest                  Assessment                     Compliance
Natural Hazards –               A development application      Complies
    •     Flood Hazard area*    for a material change of       The subject site is identified
          -    Level  1    –    use, reconfiguring a lot or    under the SPP mapping as
          Queensland            operational works on land      being within a Flood Hazard
          Floodplain            within:                        Area    –    Level     1     –
          Assessment overlay                                   Queensland         Floodplain
                                   •    A flood hazard area,
    •     Flood hazard area*                                   Assessment Overlay, Flood
                                        or
          - Level 1 – Local                                    Hazard Area – Level 1 –
                                   •    A bushfire hazard
          Government flood                                     Local Government Flood
                                        area, or
          mapping area                                         Mapping Area.       However,
                                   •    A landslide hazard
                                                               the proposed compound
    •     Bushfire Hazard               area; or
                                                               area is not identified as
                                   •    A    coastal  hazard
                                                               being located within a Flood
                                        area
                                                               Hazard Area under the
                                   •    For     all  natural
                                                               Planning Scheme.
                                        hazards:
                                                               Nonetheless, the proposed
                                Development:                   compound area is relatively
                                                               small (10 m x 12 m) and
                                1. Avoids natural hazards      therefore, any runoff will be
                                   areas or mitigates the      minimal and unlikely to
                                   risks of the natural        increase     the     risk  of
                                   hazards; and                overland flooding issues in
                                2. Supports, and does not      the vicinity of the site.
                                   unduly burden, disaster     Furthermore, certain areas
                                   management response         of the subject site are
                                   or recovery capacity and    identified to be High and



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