2020-03-10 Planning & Environment Committee Agenda

PLANNING & ENVIRONMENT COMMITTEE MEETING AGENDA                                  10 MARCH 2020


    j)    offices are trade-related only and do not compromise or compete with the Noosa
          Shire Centres Hierarchy;
    k)    warehouses for self-storage facilities are avoided to protect industrial land from
          underutilisation;
    l)    caretaker's accommodation:
          (i)     occurs only where directly associated with an industry activity on site and there
                  is a demonstrated operational need for full-time caretaking;
          (ii)    is ancillary to the primary non-residential use on the site and a small-scale
                  component of the building or premises, subsidiary in size, form and function to
                  the principal nonresidential use of the premises; and
          (iii)   is occupied by direct employees of the principal non-residential use of the
                  premises;
    m)    buildings are well designed, safe and visually attractive;
    n)    development is low rise building and does not present bulky to the street frontages;
    o)    energy and water efficiency through built form are maximised;
    p)    building setbacks incorporate attractive soft landscaped treatments to road frontages.
          Greater landscape setbacks are provided to Eumundi Noosa Road, Eenie Creek
          Road, Walter Hay Drive and Holts Road;
    q)    visual amenity and character is enhanced along the major road network by
          development providing an interesting built form, landscaping and minimum signage
          along frontages;
    r)    building design does not detract from the established or planned character of the
          zone; and
    s)    development is located, designed and its operations managed to protect the health
          and safety of the community, does not harm the environment and avoids adverse
          impacts on creeks, gullies, waterways, wetlands, habitats and vegetation.
    As stated above uses in this zone should not be incompatible uses or uses which can be
    catered for in other zones, such as centres and development should protect the integrity
    and intent of the industrial nature of the zone and not result in reverse amenity impacts on
    prime industrial land such as this site and location. Overall outcome h) above also applies
    to the subject site whereby
    “food and drink outlets occur only where directly ancillary to and associated with a bonafide
    industry activity on-site, are limited in scale and extent, and do not locate on the western
    side of Gateway Drive, Noosaville or on land fronting Taylor Court, Cooroy;”.
    The application includes an entertainment activity in the form of a bar and is not considered
    an appropriate or compatible use within the immediate locality, being an industrial estate
    and located on land fronting Taylor Ct, Cooroy. Entertainment uses are more in keeping
    with and expected to occur in a centre zone and approving them in out-of-centre locations
    like the industrial estate not only compromises the industrial estate but devalues the
    centres hierarchy.
    The New Noosa Plan does allow for complementary uses, in some industrial precincts in
    Noosaville where this has occurred organically overtime or is adjacent to a centre location.
    This is to cater for new business models and enterprises to locate and cluster with other
    similar businesses to reduce the reverse amenity impacts on other more traditional
    industrial businesses and retain the viability of key industrial areas outside these precincts.
    The inclusion of entertainment activities such as bars has proven to be challenging in terms
    of reverse amenity impacts on existing industrial businesses in the locality, including
    parking and traffic issues and lack of access to public transport for patrons. The new

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