2021-03-09 Planning & Environment Committee Meeting Agenda

PLANNING & ENVIRONMENT COMMITTEE MEETING AGENDA                                              9 MARCH 2021




                              Figure 11: Location of subject site and submitters

The following table provides a summary and assessment of the issues raised by submitters.


  Matters Raised                                          Comments
  Short-term accommodation will erode the                 It is acknowledged short-term accommodation
  provision of critically needed long term rental         utilises housing supply which could be used for
  accommodation                                           other purposes and potentially impacting on rent
  Will set a precedent to approve short-term              prices of the remaining housing stock to be used
  accommodation in other properties, altering the         for permanent rentals. However, short-term
  character of the street (from residential to tourist)   accommodation is a consistent land use within the
  Unreasonable that dwelling unit was approved as         Medium Density Residential Zone with the subject
  part of a duplex and first owner seeks to use it for    site being ideally located within proximity of
  purpose of short-term accommodation                     centres, services and the river. Importantly the
  No need for additional visitor accommodation in         appropriate zones for short-term accommodation
  this area                                               was extensively discussed during the preparation
  Short-term accommodation destroys character of          of the Noosa Plan 2020. In this respect, it is
  neighbourhood                                           important to note that the Council’s intent for the
  Potentially makes owning dwelling in a medium           Medium density residential zone is for it to
  density residential zone of Noosa, a business, not      accommodate permanent residential living
  a dwelling.                                             interspersed with some visitor accommodation.
  Medium density zoning may potentially allow for         The principle of the proposed development is
  80 or 90 applications for Short-term                    therefore entirely consistent with the Council
  accommodation, leading to a daily increase on           intent for the zone.
  several hundred short-term visitors in the area.        Noosa Plan 2020 requires 3 carparks to be
  The amenity of the area would become a ‘tourist-        provided onsite. The proposal includes a 2 car
  town’, not the residential area it is today.            garage, with room on the site for an additional 2
  Proposed car parking is not sufficient for the use –    cars to be parked. As such, the proposal is
  guests will place additional parking pressure on        considered to provide sufficient car parking on
  Nannygai Street, exacerbating vehicle related           site.
  problems.




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