2014-03-25 Planning & Organisation Committee Agenda Pages 81-167

PLANNING & ORGANISATION COMMITTEE MEETING AGENDA                                  25 MARCH 2014


The development conflicts with the SEQ Koala Conservation State Planning Regulatory
Provisions.
      Draft Coastal Protection State Planning Regulatory Provisions
The Queensland Coastal Plan has been suspended and replaced with the Draft Coastal
Protection State Planning Regulatory Provision Protecting the Coastal Environment (Draft SPRP)
which commenced on 8 October 2012. This Draft SPRP is applicable to the application because
it is an impact assessable development within the coastal management district. With respect to
coastal hazards, the Draft SPRP states that areas in the coastal zone identified as having a high
risk of being affected by coastal hazards need to be carefully considered and, wherever possible,
be retained undeveloped. The proposed development is assessed as being in compliance with
the Draft SPRP because the areas of the site affected by high risk coastal hazards have mainly
been avoided and are proposed as National Park or are to remain vegetated within the
development. The exception to this is some smaller creek crossings. The medium hazard areas
to be developed are proposed to be filled to mitigate the hazard.

Some roads are located within the revised erosion prone area and within the high hazard area for
storm tide inundation. These areas are mapped as being erosion prone due to the projected
permanent tidal inundation as a result of sea level rise. In response to Council’s request for
further information, the applicant moved the main road crossing to the southern portion of
Precinct 2 to avoid the high hazard erosion prone area. A minor emergency road (fire trail) is
proposed within the high hazard area but is not considered an intensification of the existing track.

6.4   Statutory Instruments – Planning Schemes
The applicable local government planning schemes for the application are the Maroochy Plan
2000 (24 October 2011) and The Noosa Plan (8 August 2011). The following sections relate to
the provisions of each scheme.
Maroochy Plan 2000
Strategic Provisions

The southern portion of the development site (Lot 11 SP250714 and Lot 12 RP893393) is
designated a combination of “Agricultural Protection” and “Rural or Valued Habitat” Preferred
Dominant Land Uses under the Strategic Plan. The development footprint on this portion of the
site (proposed Precincts 1 & 2) is predominantly mapped as Agricultural Protection, which the
Strategic Plan generally identifies as good quality agricultural land and seeks to protect it for
agricultural purposes.

The applicant submitted an Agricultural Land Report that finds the site contains highly variable
soils and does not meet a number of recognised criteria for good quality agricultural lands.
Council engaged its own consultant, Land Resource Assessment & Management Pty Ltd, to
undertake a peer review of the applicant’s report. The peer review agreed that the land is not
good quality agricultural land.

Given the above, it is reasonable to find that the Strategic Plan provisions for protection of good
quality agricultural land should not apply to the site. Notably though, the balance areas of the
land under the Maroochy Plan are designated Rural or Valued Habitat, for which the Strategic
Plan states:

… includes land being used for rural purposes which may not have been identified as good
quality agricultural land; land with limited rural capability; … and land which, at this time, has a
preferred non-urban function.




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