2017-06-06 - P&E Agenda Attachment 1 to Item 6 Draft Alignment Amendments Part 1 (Pages 1-907)

The town of Cooroy is located on undulating land to the south-west of Lake Macdonald. Ranges rise up




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to the north, east, and south of the town. Land immediately to the north-west and west is flatter and




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accommodates rural settlement and forestry.

Accessibility, Infrastructure & Servicing

The town of Cooroy is serviced by reticulated water and sewerage although little of the balance of the
locality is serviced. Major transport corridors traversing the locality include the North Coast Rail line,
the Bruce Highway and Cooroy-Noosa Road. Lake Macdonald Drive, Sunrise Road, Mary River Road,
Black Mountain Road and Belli Creek Road are also important for local access.

The well-established business centre of Cooroy services much of the hinterland of Noosa generally
providing lower to medium order goods although some higher order goods such as vehicles and rural
supplies are also available. Unique items such as handmade furniture are also available. The town is well
serviced with community, medical, and educational facilities.

Cooroy contains one of Noosa’s industrial estates with capacity for considerable growth and diversity.
Access to the highway is particularly important to this growth. This, along with other businesses
provides a considerable amount of the hinterland employment.

Residents of this locality enjoy the country atmosphere as well as easy access to recreational facilities
and larger centres on the coast as well as Gympie, Nambour and further afield. Given the rail and
highway access some residents of this locality commute to Brisbane or closer employment centres.

Communities

Cooroy is a bustling country town with a high level of residential amenity, built upon the local rural
industries, environmental values, outdoor recreation opportunities, built heritage, artistic talent, social
networks and family values.

While Cooroy contains an increasing number of duplexes and units, the charm and character of its
original houses is particularly appealing. Timber Queenslanders sit raised on stumps on their slightly
sloping sites. The house proper is upstairs while underneath is semi-enclosed with timber battens.
Roofs are pitched and ceilings are high, allowing for air circulation. Eaves, awnings and sunhoods protect
external walls from the sun. Houses are generally square or rectangular with verandahs wrapping part
way around the house and stairs rising up to the house from the front yards, which are generally open
with no front fences or only low fences. Newer buildings that respect the existing character of the
country town and the scale of surrounding buildings can be equally appealing. On the outskirts of town
some buildings have the country ranch style slab-on-ground construction indicative of the 1980’s. Other
more recent modern infill construction is more often exposed brick or rendered masonry of differing
styles.

Many residential and commercial lots have two frontages to a street at the front and a laneway at the
rear. These laneways allow for ease of pedestrian movement and give a sense of exploration.
Increasingly they are providing commercial or service access to the rear of properties.

There is a rural, almost rustic quality to some of the original buildings in town. Simple timber buildings
with timber framed windows and parapet walls, have wide awnings that address the street and provide
pedestrians with sheltered areas to meet and talk. Pedestrian access ways between the buildings are
particularly important. In recent years outdoor dining has been promoted between the shopfronts and
the roadway. Locally made public art reflects the value of the dairy and timber-getting history of the
area. While most of the buildings in the town centre have a pedestrian scale, some buildings have a
grander scale befitting their original uses as banks or public buildings.




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