Cover Letter - Minor Change Application

 i) Home-based businesses provide for                Not Applicable - The proposal does not involve
    domestic workplaces and home-hosted              home-based business uses.
    guest accommodation of a scale and
    intensity compatible with attached and
    semi-attached living and the residential
    character and amenity of the surrounding
    area and locality.

 j) Development maintains a high level of            Complies: The proposed changes will ensure that a
    residential amenity having regard to traffic,    high level of residential amenity is maintained and will
    noise, dust, odour, lighting and other locally   not result in any impacts relating to traffic, noise, dust,
    specific impacts.                                odour, lighting and other locally specific impacts.

 k) Development provides for an efficient            Complies: The proposed changes will maintain an
    pattern of land use and infrastructure that      efficient pattern of land use, involving a multiple
    creates walkable and legible residential         dwelling that is located within a highly walkable and
    neighbourhoods that integrate with active        well connected area.
    transport networks and are well connected
    to activity centres, employment nodes, open
    space and recreational areas, community
    facilities and educational opportunities.

 l) Development is supported by appropriate          Complies: The multiple dwelling is serviced by all
    infrastructure and essential services and        essential urban infrastructure and services.
    does not adversely impact on the continued
    operation, viability and maintenance of
    existing infrastructure or compromise future
    provision of planned infrastructure.

 m) Development responds to land constraints         Not Applicable - The proposal involves minor
    including topography, bushfire and flood.        alterations to an existing unit.

 n) Natural features such as creeks, gullies,        Complies: The proposed alterations will have no
    waterways, wetlands, vegetation and              impacts on natural features including creeks, gullies,
    bushland are retained and protected from         waterways, wetlands, vegetation and bushland.
    the impacts of development. Any
    unavoidable impacts are minimised through
    location, design, operation and
    management requirements.

 o) Native vegetation between buildings and in       Complies: The development will maintain any native
    the public realm enhances the amenity and        vegetation throughout the site.
    supports local wildlife.



Conclusion

The above report demonstrates that the proposed alterations and additions constitute a minor change
under the Planning Act 2016 and comply with the requirements of both the 1995 Town Planning Scheme
and the Noosa Plan 2020. While not achieving PO11 of the Medium Density Residential Zone, which relates