2017-02-07 P&E Agenda Attachment 1 to Item 8 Community Feedback on New Noosa Plan

Submitter                   Comments                                                                             Staff Response
                           overridden by the South East Qld Regional Plan currently out for consultation; and
                           New Noosa Plan needs to be carefully deliberate in attempts to monitor the
                           balance of harmony between man and the environment.

                   121     New theme of Social Wellbeing which picks up the issue of inequity across the         Note responses above relating to improving the housing options and
                           socio-economic brackets within Noosa Shire. The New Noosa Plan must address           affordable living. Refer to Community Services Department.
                           the growing divide between the haves and have-nots in our community and
                           support work carried out by not-for-profit organisations working in this area.
                           Another outcome of the Discussion paper for consideration in the New Noosa Plan
                           should be Noosa Shire is reducing levels of socio-economic disadvantage and the
                           associated challenges through improved access to services, amenities and
                           meaningful community engagement.

                   132     More prescriptive application of the New Noosa Plan with less discretionary           Planning schemes are required to be written to accommodate merit-based
                           powers to override the planning scheme.                                               assessment of development proposals. Council will continue to use its
                                                                                                                 discretion where it feels it is necessary and seeks to provide a balance
                                                                                                                 between certainty and allowing for innovation where site-specific
                                                                                                                 circumstances warrant it.

                   141     Keep up the good work. Can’t think of another country shire that has as much          Noted
                           diversity with backpackers and retirees, cultural diversity, great beaches and
                           national parks and increased visitor attraction to the hinterland and benefits that
                           the tourist economy brings.

LOCALITY: HINTERLAND AND RURAL AREAS
 17, 71, 73, 76, 79, 90,   Need of overlays on rural properties is an issue as inaccurate links and mapping.     Refer to drafting to check these concerns
              112, 113     Need to ground truth mapping.

                     17    Ag conservation areas - seems left over from other overlays. These areas don’t        Council has endorsed an Agricultural Study which has reviewed the mapping
                           seem viable in their own right                                                        of agricultural lands undertaken since the development of the current Noosa
                                                                                                                 Plan.

      17, 56, 120, 121     Issues with Hobby/Lifestyle farms not being looked after by absent owners.            Not a matter for the New Noosa Plan.
                           Overrun with weeds from lifestyle acreage properties. Tug of water between
                           industry and lifestyle.

17, 21,27, 34, 50, 172,    Allow subdivision of small lot off 100acre+ lot to boost farm funding / viability     Council cannot approve the subdivision of rural properties located within the
                   190                                                                                           Regional Landscape and Rural Production Area designation under the South



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