Minor Change Report 132001 210127 4 · 132001.210127.4

               2.     BACKGROUND
               •    A rezoning application (51995.1551) to change the zoning of the subject site from Special
                    Facilities (Retirement Community / Multiple Dwelling) to Special Facilities (Aged Persons
                    Home, Retirement Community, Respite Centre, Hydrotherapy Pool and Ancillary facilities in
                    accordance with the Plan of Development) was approved on 2 February 1996. The first stage
                    of development comprised the construction of three separate buildings linked together by a
                    series of walkways.
               •    A subsequent application (51996.192332 – 3B-449) for Permitted Development Subject to
                    Conditions for an Aged Persons Home and ancillary facilities was approved subject to
                    conditions on 27 March 1996. A concurrent application (51996.1913 – TPC2905) for an
                    Additional Caretaker’s Unit was approved subject to conditions on 13 March 1996. Stage 2 of
                    the development included the construction of two residential wings and the alteration to an
                    existing wing.
               •    A Development Permit (132001.210127) was issued on 9 August 2001 for a Material Change
                    of Use - Stage 3 – Aged Persons Home. Stage 3 included an additional 20 bed extension
                    extending on from stage 2, along the site’s southern boundary.
               •    A Minor Change approval (132001.210127.2 – 21675DA) was approved on 7 December 2005
                    approving an additional 20 beds in the low care facility component and an additional 8 high
                    care beds. As part of the additions, car parking was also required to be relocated, with a total
                    of 53 parking spaces to be provided on site. It is noted that the current Minor Change
                    application seeks to change this approval.
               •    A Minor Change approval (132001.210127.3 – 21675DA) was approved on 20 December
                    2023. The approval included alterations and additions to the existing residential care facility,
                    including the removal of all 24 shared rooms, to be replaced with 48 single occupancy rooms.
                    The minor change application was required to be decided by Council due to the requirement
                    for an Infrastructure Agreement regarding works required to be carried out on Council land for
                    the purposes of stormwater works, access and bushfire mitigation measures.
               3.     ASSESSMENT
               3.1. Instruments for Statutory Assessment
               Under the Planning Act 2016 the application must be assessed against each of the following
               statutory planning instruments to the extent they are relevant to the development:
               •      State Planning Policy;
               •      South East Queensland Regional Plan;
               •      Planning Regulation 2017; and
               •      The Noosa Plan 2020.
               3.2. Statutory Process
               The applicant has requested to make a minor change to a development approval under s78 of the
               Planning Act 2016. An application for a minor change to a development approval can only be made
               in circumstances where a change would constitute a ‘minor change’.
               The proposed change to the development approval requested by the applicant is determined to
               constitute a minor change on the grounds that:
               •      the development would not result in substantially different development as the changes do
                      not involve a new use or introduce new impacts or increase the severity of known impacts;
               •      the change does not include prohibited development;
               •      the change would not require the application to be referred to an additional referral agency
                      or cause a referral agency to have regard to new matters prescribed by regulation;
               •      where the original application was code assessable, the change would not cause the
                      application to become impact assessable.


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