2019-10-28 Special Meeting Agenda - Item 1 - Attachment 4 - RAL18-0023 - Master Plan Stage 2

CHOOSING FUTURES: Shire Business Centre Master Plan - Stage 2                                                                    10


3.0 PLANNING & DESIGN GUIDELINES AND PRINCIPLES
3.1        GENERAL PRINCIPLES
           Apart from the planning and design principles flowing from the Strategic Plan (refer to Section 2.1of MP1) and the
           constraints over the site, there is a range of other principles, opportunities and constraints that have been
           considered in the development of both MP1 and MP2:

           a.         The site should be developed as a centre of urban design and environmental excellence in both built and
                      natural environments, showcasing the attributes of the site, the environmental capabilities of the Shire and
                      best practice environmental technologies.

           b.         Key design elements should include an integrated public transport system including bike and pedestrian
                      pathways; energy-efficient design; the generation of renewable energy; integration between the built form
                      and the landscape fabric; low key informal places; a visual relationship between indoor and outdoor
                      spaces; waste minimisation; and recycling.

           c.         Open space areas should be located and managed so as to protect the ecological values of the Site and
                      Eenie Creek. They should also provide visual screening, soften the built environment, provide habitat for
                      local fauna and provide a buffer to the Noosa National Park. They should be of a size and shape that
                      facilitates the survival of native vegetation and habitat.

           d.         Presentation of the site as viewed from Walter Hay Drive in the area of Eenie Creek is of importance.
                      From land to the south at around RL10, the road would drop to a bridge deck level of around RL4 or 5,
                      providing visible sight lines across the Shire Business Centre site.

           e.         Designations adjacent to Walter Hay Drive provide the opportunity for the character of the adjacent areas
                      to be maintained, thereby providing an open space feel on this entry to Noosa Shire. This character can
                      be reinforced by the frontage treatments along the Shire Business Centre site, with natural vegetation
                      being retained in 5 metre strips near the entry intersections, together with occasional wider areas.
                      Vegetation intended to offer light screening may be in road reserve or park tenure to assist in its retention
                      in a natural state.

           f.         Development design should incorporate water sensitive urban design principles, including offline and ‘at
                      the source’ treatment, comprising, for example, bio-retention, infiltration, grass swales, vegetated filtration
                      strips and gross pollutant trap devices. The principal measures to address retention of stormwater and
                      water quality from development areas are to be contained within the development sites clear of drainage
                      corridors and open space sub-precincts. The existing drainage corridors proposed to be protected through
                      the site should only be used for final polishing or runoff. There should be no significant change to the
                      existing hydrologic and ecologic regimes across the site.

           g.         Drainage lines and associated open space through the site should be used as key definitional items
                      providing habitat linkages and edges to major land uses. These drainage lines will need ecologically
                      sensitive enhancement in some places to ensure that the water quality polishing function of the drainage
                      lines is maintained to a high standard.

           h.         Capacity should be retained on the site in the longer term to take advantage of potential new employment
                      opportunities, as the identification of alternative land for additional employment opportunities in the coastal
                      part of Noosa Shire is already difficult and will become more so in the future.

           i.         While it is desirable to identify nodes for particular forms of development, it is also desirable to maintain
                      the opportunity for a dynamic mix of development. Development precincts are a convenient way of
                      describing and labelling mapping and associated controls, however some care needs to be exercised to
                      ensure that such precincts are not only read as discrete areas preventing appropriate mix of land uses and
                      integration of functions. It is intended the precincts may include a mix of uses provided there is general
                      compliance with the outcomes sought for the precinct. (This provision is not intended to offer support to
                      any expansion of shops beyond Precinct B1.)

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