Letter to Noosa Council - 20 Mitti Street Final_ · RAL20/0005

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the Detached House use is code assessable against the relevant assessment benchmarks. An
assessment of the Detached House is not required against the Noosaville Locality Code or any other
code.

Importantly under part 2.6.4 of the planning scheme, at (a), … accepted development does not require
a development approval and is not subject to the assessment benchmarks. Further, at (d)ii(a), where
code assessable, … be assessed against the assessment benchmarks for the development application,
limited to the subject matter of the required acceptable solutions that were not complied with or were
not capable of being complied with … . It is also noted under section 27(3) of the PR2017, … an
assessment manager may, in assessing development requiring code assessment, consider an assessment
benchmark only to the extent the assessment benchmark is relevant to the development.




Figure 3 – Site Plan

It is not unusual for a development application for reconfiguring a lot to be made in isolation. The
proposed reconfiguring a lot is to comply with the relevant codes having regard to the Detached
Housing Zone with the intended and primary use being a Detached House. Once the land is created
the proposed use of the land (Detached House) needs to be considered against the relevant
assessment tables for material change of use applicable to that zone. The use of the land once created
can be either accepted development, or development requiring code or impact assessment. There is

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18019 – 20 Mitti Street, Noosa Heads, April 2020