Council Report - 132005.638.03 - OTHER CHANGE TO AN EXISTING APPROVAL FOR MATERIAL CHANGE OF USE - EXPANSION OF SPECIAL PURPOSE (WASTE DISPOSAL AND RECYCLING FACILITY) & ONGOING CLEARING PURPOSES AT 561 EUMUNDI NOOSA ROAD, DOONAN - Finale

The subject ‘other change’ application is code assessable, and therefore, in accordance with
section 82 of the Act the relevant provisions include:
•     The assessment benchmarks
•     Any matters a referral agency must, may or may only assess the application against
•     Any matter prescribed in a regulation
3.2. State and Other Statutory Instruments
State Planning Policy
Noosa Plan 2020 is generally consistent with the State Planning Policy July 2017 (SPP) and the
SPP raises no further issues relevant to the proposed development.
South East Queensland (SEQ) Regional Plan
The site is located within the Regional Landscape and Rural Production Area of the SEQ Regional
Plan. The proposal is consistent with the regional policies of the SEQ Regional Plan.
Planning Regulation 2017
The assessment benchmarks from the Planning Regulation 2017 relating to the Koala Habitat
Areas do not apply to this application. Schedule 11 (Assessment benchmarks applying to koala
habitat areas in SEQ region), of the Regulation does not apply as the proposed development for a
waste management facility is “exempt infrastructure” as listed in Schedule 5, being “infrastructure
carried out by or for the State or a public sector entity”.
3.3. Statutory Instruments – Planning Scheme
The application must be assessed against each of the following codes to the extent they are
relevant to the development:
•    Community Facilities Zone Code
•    Infrastructure Activities Code
•    Works Code
•    Acid Sulfate Soils Overlay Code
•    Biodiversity, Waterways and Wetlands Overlay Code
•    Bushfire Hazard Overlay Code and
•    Landslide Hazard Overlay Code;
Locality Provisions
The subject site is not located in a designated locality and is zoned Community Facilities (Utility
installation). The proposed use is identified as a consistent use with the zone and is required to
follow a code assessable application process.
The application has been found to generally comply with all applicable statutory instruments. The
pertinent issues arising out of the assessment are discussed below:
PLANNING
Landuse – Utility installation (Waste landfill and resource recovery centre)
Performance Outcome PO5 of the Community Facilities zone code requires that Uses are of a
type, scale and intensity consistent with community needs, locational characteristics and
supporting infrastructure.
The applicant’s town planning report acknowledges an increase in scale of the waste disposal and
recycling facility but states that there will be no increase in the intensity of the land use and no
significant increase in traffic impacts.
Further information was requested to demonstrate compliance with the PO5 of the Community
facilities zone code, including the provision of estimated volumes of recoverable material entering
and being processed as part of the RRA recovery area and any impacts on existing staffing