Town Planning Report 1-27 Duke St Sunshine Beach QLD 4567 Rev A · 132004.4552.01

          CATEGORISING INSTRUMENTS

Change application in accordance with Planning Act 2016 contain statutory categorising instruments
applicable to development applications including:
   • Planning Regulation 2017
   • State Planning Policy 2017 (Part E)
   • Planning Scheme for the local government area.

          State Categorising Instrument
The Planning Regulation 2017 prescribes assessment benchmarks that the application which are
additional or alternative to the assessment benchmarks contained in a local categorising instrument.
Assessment benchmarks and applicable extracts from the development assessment mapping system
are summarised in Table 5.
Table 5 – State Instrument Summary

 Detail                 Information
                        Matters of Interest Report includes:
 State Matters of
                          • SEQ Regional Plan – Urban Footprint land use category.
 Interest by Lot
                          • Water resource planning area boundaries.
                        SPP mapping layers of state interest includes:
                          • Natural Hazards Risk and Resilience - Local Government flood
 State Planning
                               mapping area
 Policy (SPP) 2017 –
                        It is considered that the development sites state planning policy matters of
 Part E
                        interest are appropriately integrated into the Noosa Plan 2020 (Part 2) and
                        relevant overlays.
 Planning Regulation      A review of the change application indicates Referral to State Assessment
 2017 Schedule 10         and Referral Agency (SARA) is not required.

          Local Categorising Instrument
The Planning Act 2016 requires the change application to be assessed against the assessment
matters that applied when the original application was made but may have regard to the matters that
now apply. Dual Occupancy in Table of assessment (Planning Scheme 5.5.8) specifies a development
application is subject to code assessment and assessment benchmarks includes:
   • Coastal Communities Local Plan Code
   • Medium Density Residential Zone Code
   • Dual Occupancy and Multiple Dwelling Code
   • Works Code

The development application is in accordance with the framework of Noosa Plan 2020 and achieves
compliance with the relevant assessment benchmarks. Development complies with the purpose,
overall outcomes and performance outcomes or acceptable outcomes of the relevant codes. In
accordance with Part 5.3.3 of the Planning Scheme compliance with the code can be achieved by
complying with the performance outcomes or acceptable outcomes of the code. Where the
assessment summary is reserved in relation to an assessable element the development complies with
that relevant assessment criteria and no further assessment is provided in Table 6.
Table 6 – Assessment Benchmarks




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