25EdwardObjection-V1

February 15, 2022

Chief Executive Officer
Noosa Council
P O Box 141
TEWANTIN, 4565

Via email  [email protected]

Submission Objecting to Application Reference MCU17/0076.01
1/25 Edward St, Noosaville, Qld 4566
Other change to include Short Term Accommodation (Multiple Housing Type 2 Duplex & Operational Works)

Dear Sir

I refer to the above development application which is presently being publicly notified due to being an impact assessable development.  Noosa Shire Council is the assessment manager for this development application.

I wish to object to this development application and request that the application be refused by Council.

I am the owner of a nearby Edward Street dwelling and this dwelling is my permanent place of residence.  I have been a permanent resident of the Noosa LGA for the last ~ 15 years.

Those grounds on which I have based my objection include, but are by no means limited to, the following:

The premise located at 1/25 Edward Street, Noosaville, has been operating as a short-term accommodation use for about the last 2 to 2.5 years. During this time, we have been subjected to frequent partying and socialising within the premises by guests who are staying in this premises for short periods of time and are clearly on holidays. Typically, this socialising takes place on the outdoor deck at the rear of the premises, and involves loud voices and loud noise. The said partying occurs typically on multiple occasions per week and on the majority of weeks per year.
The pool area is heavily used by the short- term accommodation renters, especially by those with small children. It is not unusual for the pool to be used for 4+ hours every day during short terms stays. Small children with loud and squealing voices can scream with joy, which in turns significantly penetrates into adjoining dwellings. My property is 2 dwellings away and we get disturbed by this noise. This disturbance of our quiet enjoyment generally causes us to close windows and doors adjoining the short-term accommodation property, and turn on our air-conditioning.
There appears to be a total lack of awareness and/or disregard by the guests and the owner of this adjoining premises to the fact that this adjoining premises is located in a residential area.
Our home, like so many in the area, is constructed to enjoy the fresh air and breezes the Noosa lifestyle provides. But on many occasions, this lifestyle is negatively impacted due to excessive noise and loud voices from the adjoining short-term accommodation premise.  At night time, this disturbance forces us to retreat behind closed doors.
It is my understanding that the vast majority if not all adjoining residences to our immediate property are owner occupied and not used for short term accommodation.  The existing residential amenity of the immediate neighbourhood is therefore one that has been enjoyed by owner occupiers in the past.   Over the last 2.5 years our immediate neighbourhood has lost some of its valued residential amenity.  The approval of the above development approval will legitimise what has been happening to our immediate neighbourhood for the last 2.5 years from a land use perspective.  The proposed local law may assist in providing an improved means to lodging a complaint however many of the issues being experienced cannot be negated by enforcing Council’s local law.

It is considered that my grounds of objection cannot be adequately addressed by Council issuing both a conditional approval of the above development application along with the requirement for registration under Council’s new local law on Short Stay Letting.

I therefore reiterate that the current application should be rejected for the above grounds

Yours sincerely

Graham Morris and Marilyn Anderson
26 Ann Street
Noosaville, 4566
Email [email protected]

Hi Neighbour,

You asked for a copy of our planned objection to the DA for use as short-term accommodation for 1/25 Edward Street.

Attached is a template you can either:
Add your details at the end, sign and submit. Must be to Council by 18th February.
Let me know and I will email you a copy and you can then personalise your own submission.

Regards
Steve:
Email.  [email protected]
Phone	0434 124 734