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

Submitter              Comments                                                                              Staff Response
                      adjacent and two motels to service health tourists. With the National Disability
                      Insurance Scheme coming on stream, this is an ideal location for Cooroy to focus
                      future health services and a growth opportunity.

               133    All land within the urban footprint must have a finer grain review in conjunction      A comprehensive review of residential, business and community needs in
                      with property owners to consider best use of land supply and what role Cooroy is       Cooroy will be undertaken through the planning scheme preparation,
                      able to play in terms of Industrial, retirement and alternative housing choice. The    informed by the Housing Needs Assessment, the Centres Strategy, and with
                      western side of the railway line is a compact walkable urban form and maintaining      consideration to the capacity and suitability of all lands within the urban
                      the existing zones is paramount to ensure no fragmentation occurs within the           boundary and to accessibility around town.
                      town centre. Any further retail or commercial development on land within
                      Diamond street or through to Opal street should not be supported. These larger
                      land holdings have far greater strategic land use to meet housing choice and
                      diversity options than to be allowed to become further retail.

            50, 99    Ensure Cooroy State Forest is retained. Should be National Park as per previous        Not a Planning Scheme matter.
                      draft Forestry agreement.

        50, 62, 177   Houses being built are not suitable to Cooroy and need to be kept more to              Housing in Cooroy is already dominated by low density detached houses (the
                      heritage character of Cooroy.                                                          current minimum lot size is 600m2 however older estates have larger lots).
                      Need bigger blocks 900-1000m2 in Cooroy and more residents in Cooroy will mean         Housing development has not reached the capacity within the urban growth
                      more employment. Cooroy needs more land to develop.                                    boundary of the existing planning scheme and it is not considered the release
                                                                                                             of additional urban land is necessary right now.
                                                                                                             It is likely that the next scheme could improve housing choice through further
                                                                                                             duplexes and multiple dwellings close to the town centre and a range of
                                                                                                             detached housing lot sizes including smaller lots. Modern style houses have
                                                                                                             been a feature of new development areas in Cooroy for many years and are
                                                                                                             the preference for the majority of home builders however local area planning
                                                                                                             could lead to design guides which encourage styles complementing the more
                                                                                                             traditional country town character.

            50, 82    Not appropriate for waste transfer station to be expanded opposite housing.            Refer the waste transfer Station issue to Waste Management Branch.
                      My immediate concern is the planned enlargement of the Mary River Road                 The second issue regarding industrial activities around Cooroy is noted, but no
                      transfer station encompassing the provisional road between it and the Rural Fire       action can be taken if the uses are lawfully established.
                      Brigade premises. It is in an incongruous location and this transfer station is just
                      one of the many industrial sites randomly spread around Cooroy which have
                      grown in number over time to meet commercial wants rather than the community
                      needs. The time is now to set in place a plan to start their consolidation and the
                      new Nandroya Industrial Estate on Holts Road is the start.


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