2021-03-09 Planning & Environment Committee Meeting Agenda

PLANNING & ENVIRONMENT COMMITTEE MEETING AGENDA                                         9 MARCH 2021




                                   Figure 10: Outdoor open space area

It is also noted that the subject site adjoins a child care centre (Adeona Child Care – refer to Figure
10), which operates Monday to Friday from 7:00am – 5:30pm (closed weekends and public
holidays) and caters for approximately forty children, from 18 months to 5 years in age, contrary to
Acceptable Outcome AO1.2 of the Visitor accommodation Code, which states:
      Visitor accommodation is not within 100 metres of an educational establishment or childcare
      centre.
Council’s Strategic Planning team have advised that the intent of AO1.2 was to mitigate impacts
from larger scale short-term accommodation development, which would result in more substantial
risks and/or impacts in relation to child care centres, in terms of:
     an increase in traffic, with tourists/visitors having less familiarity with the context of the area,
      in an environment where lots of children may be wandering around;
     large scale short-term accommodation tends to increase demand for on-street parking, as
      do schools and childcares, and as such may result in adverse impacts for surrounding
      residents and parents attending school pick up / drop off; and
     acoustic privacy of the guests of the short-term accommodation (i.e. noise generated from
      the child-care centre impacting on guests).
It is considered given the minor scale of the development, being a single four bedroom dwelling
limited to 8 guests, the development complies with corresponding Performance Outcome PO1,
in that the location of the development, despite being in proximity to the child care centre, avoids

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