2021-03-09 Planning & Environment Committee Meeting Agenda

PLANNING & ENVIRONMENT COMMITTEE MEETING AGENDA                                        9 MARCH 2021


      Public housing means housing—
       - provided by, or for, the State or a statutory body representing the State; and
       - for short or long term residential use; and
       - totally or partly subsidised by the State or a statutory body representing the State.
      Community housing means social housing that is not public housing.
     Remove the editor’s notes relating to Acceptable Outcome 21 within Table 6.3.3.3 and
      Acceptable Outcome 80 within Table 6.4.1.3 as the new definitions will make these
      redundant.
3     Small dwellings terminology
Schedule 1 of Noosa Plan 2020 contains the following administrative definition of small dwellings:
Small dwelling means a dwelling that has no more than 100m² of gross floor area.
When Noosa Plan 2020 was first drafted this was limited to 90m2 but was increased to 100m2
following consideration of submissions.
Various tables of assessment referenced a specific maximum gross floor area (GFA) for a dwelling
or dwellings rather than applying the defined term of small dwellings. Some were updated and
some were inadvertently missed and as a consequence still reference a maximum GFA of 90m2.
For clarity and consistency, it is preferable the defined term be used rather than individually
nominating the maximum GFA. Therefore, references to 90m2 or 100m2 within the tables will be
removed and instead it will refer to small dwellings as defined.
Notwithstanding the above, some dwellings, such as caretaker’s accommodation within industrial
estates, are deliberately limited to 65m2 GFA. These specific limitations will remain.
3.1   Proposed amendment:
Amend the following Tables of Assessment for Material Change of Use so that under the
Accommodation activities use categories, individual references to limitations of either 90m 2 or
100m2 gross floor area are deleted and replaced with references to small dwellings:
            a.    Table 5.5.4 Tourist Accommodation zone
            b.    Table 5.5.5 Major Centre zone where not in a precinct
            c.    Table 5.5.5.2 Noosa Junction Hospitality precinct
            d.    Table 5.5.5.6 Noosa Business Centre – Village Mixed Use precinct
            e.    Table 5.5.6 District Centre zone
            f.    Table 5.5.6.1 Health and Wellbeing precinct
            g.    Table 5.5.7 Local Centre zone
            h.    Table 5.5.8 Neighbourhood Centre zone
            i.    Table 5.5.11 Community Facilities zone
4     Small dwellings around centres
Noosa Plan 2020 includes a Strategic Intent for housing to meet diverse needs of the community
and particularly notes the intent for small dwellings close to centres. It is suggested given the nature
of the local housing market that for this to be realised it is necessary to specifically require small
dwellings where in close proximity to centres
As indicated earlier within this report it has been the intention of Council to require a proportion of
new housing at the former bowls club in Noosa Junction and the Noosa Business Centre, the
Shire’s two major activity centres, to be affordable housing and specifically social housing. It is
considered the performance outcome needs revision to clarify this.


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