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

PLANNING & ORGANISATION COMMITTEE MEETING AGENDA                                  25 MARCH 2014


The following table provides a summary and assessment of the issues raised by submitters:


 Issues                                                 Comments
Conflict with Plans / Need / Premature
 The land is intended to remain for open space         The development poses unacceptable
  purposes and environmental purposes.                  conflicts with the rural, open space and
 No other three storey developments have               conservation intent for the site under the
  been approved around lake.                            local planning schemes and insufficient
                                                        need exists to justify approval of the
 Zoning on two of the three parcels of land is         development.
  “Open Space Conservation” which is one of
  the highest levels of zoning protection under
  the planning scheme.
 Sufficient land supply within urban footprint.
 Previous proposals rejected on environmental
  grounds.
 Decision should not be made until new Noosa
  Council established.
 The development would compete with and
  potentially reduce the diversity of current
  existing urban development in the region.
Unsuitable Land
The land is unsuitable for urban development as:-       The land is highly constrained, supports
 it is low lying, poorly drained and partly flood      significant habitat and forms part of a
  prone, and requires substantial earthworks;           highly sensitive coastal lowland system.
                                                        The nature and intensity of the
 it is affected by acid sulfate soils and these will   development is not appropriate to its
  be released into the environment as a result of       setting and is likely to result in
  the development;                                      unacceptable environmental impacts.
 it supports sensitive vegetation systems, and
  the proposed vegetation clearing and
  significant earthworks will have a dramatic
  effect on these systems;
 it lies within the highly sensitive Lake Weyba
  catchment and Eenie Creek systems;
 it is an important fish breeding area; and
 successive       planning     instruments    have
  recognised the sensitivity of the catchment by
  excluding all urban development apart from
  that which is directly associated with Peregian
  Beach.
 Part of the site is one of only 2 UNESCO “Man
  in the Biosphere” reserves in Queensland and
  1 of 14 in Australia.




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