2018-10-09 Planning & Environment Committee Agenda

PLANNING & ENVIRONMENT COMMITTEE MEETING AGENDA                                9 OCTOBER 2018


At its Ordinary Meeting held on 11 February 2016 Council resolved to defer consideration of the
application, at the request of the applicant, allowing them to provide further detail regarding the
use of the outdoor dining areas.
In seeking deferment, the applicant’s key concerns were the conditions recommended by staff
that limited the use of the Village Bicycle’s outdoor areas. They read:
3.    The approved use must not operate outside the hours of 5am to 12pm, with use of outdoor
      dining area permitted after 10pm only on Friday and Saturday nights.
4.    Patrons in the outdoor dining area must be seated and limited to 50.
Council’s Planning and Environmental Health officers met with the applicant on 15 February 2016
and discussed the issues raised in the development assessment report, particularly noise. Staff
reiterated previous advice that they considered the most appropriate way to attenuate patron
noise from the outdoor areas would likely be the partial enclosure of those areas.
The applicant submitted their formal response to the deferment on 5 May 2016 which included
public comments of support from an online “change.org” petition started by the Village Bicycle
(from approximately 1300 people and totalling 90 pages). A petition of support (with
approximately 600 signatures and totalling 47 pages) was also submitted.
When the application was considered at the 16 June 2016 Ordinary meeting the application was
supported and the outdoor dining area was permitted to operate until midnight Friday to Monday.
At this meeting an additional condition was also added which applied a sunset clause. The
purpose of this condition was to allow Council time to consider the development’s compliance
with the approval conditions to ensure the outdoor dining area could operate satisfactorily without
adversely impacting on nearby residential amenity.
A copy of the development approval is included as Attachment 1.
3.    SITE DETAILS
The subject site is a 546m2 triangular shaped lot situated at the corner of Bottlebrush Avenue
and Noosa Drive. The site contains a multiple tenancy building which is occupied by Peterpans
adventure travel agent, The Bean Drop café and Little Sister. The site is situated at the extremity
of Business Centre zoned land. The opposite side of Bottlebrush Avenue is zoned Semi-Attached
Housing and contains a mix of duplex dwellings and dwelling units. Nomads backpackers is
situated directly opposite the site in Noosa Drive.
The following image provides a locality plan of the site:




                                        Figure 1: Locality plan


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