PM Submission - Paul Noonan - MCU25/0118

                     To: Assessment Manager         –       Noosa Shire Council. Date: 23/11/25

                     Re: Application Number MCU25/0118

                     Description: Development Permit for Material Change of use by Coast2Bay for
                     Multiple Dwellings – Affordable Rental Premises 25 X small dwellings plus one
                     community room dwelling.

                     Site Address: 64 Lake Macdonald Drive, Cooroy Qld 4563 on Lot 2 (part) SP348613

                     To whom it may concern,

                     I make the following submission to Council and request the above mentioned
                     application be recommended for refusal on the following grounds:

                     Introduction
                     The application needs to be viewed in context of Councils ambitions for the surrounding land
                     of the 64 Lake Macdonald Drive subdivision, and not as it seems, in isolation. The
                     concentration of so many dwellings (25 proposed here and an unresolved number on Lots 2
                     and 3) clearly runs counter to the objectives of the Noosa Strategic Framework to ensure “A
                     wide range of housing is spread throughout the existing urban areas”.

                     Unless otherwise specified document reference numbers such as ‘3.9.1’ refer to the heading
                     numbers in the RPS Consulting Town Planning Report for the DA. Letters such as A) B) C)
                     etc are generally mine, as are the i) ii) iii) etc. C2B = Coast 2 Bay, LMD = Lake Macdonald
                     Drive.

                     In general the RPS Town Planning Report is unimpressive: no page numbers, and poor
                     labelling. Examples are Figure 3 (which gives a false (the) impression of the amenity impact
                     of imposing 25+1 high density (but called medium density) units beside a cemetery and low
                     density residential area) and Figure 7 which has cut off labels.

                     Some confusion in the RPS town planning report is attributable to Council. The Cooroy
                     Local Plan (as referenced in RPS’s Sections 6.3.3.1 and 6.3.3.2) describes Cooroy
                     alternatively as a ‘modern’ country town which ‘justifies’ one aspect of the C2B design, then
                     as a ‘traditional’ country town which ‘justifies’ another design aspect.

                     1) The planning document appears to be based on the wrong premise.
                     I understand Coast2Bay negotiated a Capital Funding Agreement (CFA) with the State,
                     contingent on the project providing social housing (not affordable housing, see Section 1
                     Introduction) for eligible people on the register of need. This contradicts the title and
                     language of the DA.




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