Town Planning Report

    Entertainment and Dining Business means the conduct of a business activity, where entertainment,
    amusement, recreation or meals are afforded. The term includes the following types:

    Type 2 Recreation, Amusement & Fitness “The use of premises involving recreation or amusement
    activities, including cinema, health & fitness club, gym, sport activity or brothel.”

        AND

    Reconfiguration of a lot
        “(c) rearranging the boundaries of a lot by registering a plan of subdivision under the Land Act or
        Land Title Act; or
        (e) creating an easement giving access to a lot from a constructed road.”

Town Planning Assessment – These definitions accurately reflect what is proposed to occur on the subject
land by this application. The development has been specifically designed to deliver an integrated
community consisting of independent living units and community facility buildings that will accommodate
an active over 50s demographic, co-located with a new club house for the Cooroy Golf Club.

Level of Assessment and Public Notification

67. The proposed development application is made ‘Impact Assessable’ pursuant to development
    assessment Table 6.8 for Material Change of Use within the Rural zone (Division 10) of the Cooroy
    and Lake Macdonald Locality Plan (Part 6) of the Noosa Plan 2006. The level of assessment is
    unchanged by the applicable overlay assessment tables (Part 13) of the Noosa Plan 2006. As such,
    the proposed development is required to be publicly notified for a period of 15 business days.

Draft Noosa Plan

68. The Draft Noosa Plan was released on 15 February 2019 for public consultation and proposes to
    replace every component of the existing Planning Scheme, being the Noosa Plan 2006. In respect of
    the subject land, the Draft Noosa Plan appeared to acknowledge that the current zoning of the
    majority of the subject land, by virtue of its inclusion in the Rural zone, did not truly reflect the
    locational characteristics and site attributes. In this regard, it is noted that the Draft Noosa Plan
    proposed to up zone the subject land and include it within the Rural Residential Zone.

69. Whilst the proposed up zoning of the subject land is acknowledged, it is suggested that it did not go
    far enough in responding to the economic and social needs of the local community by way of the
    provision of affordable (and alternate) housing options for the ageing population. For this reason,
    on behalf of GemLife and in conjunction with the Cooroy Golf Club and the current landowners of
    Lots 2 and 3, a submission in respect of the proposed Draft Noosa Plan was lodged with Council for
    consideration within the public consultation period. The submission was premised on the community
    benefit that would be capable of being achieved in the form of a development concept not dissimilar
    to that which is proposed by this development application. Representations were therefore made
    on this basis. We understand that Council is currently in the process of considering submissions to
    the Draft Noosa Plan and we suggest that this development application now offers the technical

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