2018-03-12 General Committee Agenda

GENERAL COMMITTEE MEETING AGENDA                                                  12 MARCH 2018


REPORT
Background

The Queensland Boating and Fisheries Patrol (QBFP) building is located on Lot 157 SP143417,
2 Russell Street, Noosaville. The building is located on land that has been a gazetted reserve
since 1884. At that time, the reserve designation was for Departmental and Official Purposes and
this continued until 1974. In 1974, the reserve transferred to the Department of Agriculture and
Fisheries and the Department has been the trustee since that time. In the intervening period, Lot
157 increased in size from 670m2 to 853m2.

The Noosa River Holiday Park (the Holiday Park) is located on Lot 131 SP143417 adjacent to the
QBFP site. The Holiday Park was originally established from an 80 acre reserve for public
purposes, which incorporated all of Munna Point, with camping recorded as a sustained land use
in the area since the 1920’s. The Holiday Park was excised from the 80 acre reserve in 1956 and
reserved for camping and recreation purposes under the trusteeship of Noosa Shire Council.

The Noosa River Holiday Park was recognised on the State Government’s Queensland Heritage
Register in 2009. The State Government citation notes the following in relation to the Holiday
Park:

Local communities and visitors have come to attach special significance to caravan parks as
places of leisure as has been demonstrated by their efforts to protect council operated caravan
parks on Crown land. As a site intrinsically linked to the development of tourism in Noosa Shire
since the 1920s at least, it is an important part of Queensland's cultural heritage.

The boating operations were originally established on site in the mid 1970’s, with the original boat
shed having a floor to ridgeline height of 3.6m and floor area of 50m2. At some time prior to 5
March 1981, the Department of Housing and Public Works (the Department) advises the boat
shed was expanded to approximately 88 m2, with a further building approval to expand the shed
to 123m2 issued in May 2000.

Notably, prior to commencement of the Integrated Planning Act 1997 (IPA) planning schemes did
not apply to the state but with the commencement of IPA, this Act expressly bound all persons
including the state. Importantly, s6.1.40 of IPA provided that if the state starts development, to
the extent that development is self-assessable or assessable development under a planning
scheme, it was exempt development.            This provision was in force for 2 years from
commencement of IPA on 30 March 1998 until 30 March 2000.

Therefore, the building approval obtained in May 2000 postdates the IPA exemption provisions
and would have been subject to Council’s planning scheme at the time. Notably no development
approval was obtained for the boat shed expansion in May 2000.

Photographs of the previous boat shed are shown on the following page.




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