2017-11-07 P&E Committee - Attachment 1 to Item 1 - Amendments for Multiple Housing Type 2 Duplex & Minor Corrections

Cooroy’s industrial estate;




                                                                                                                  Including amendments to 3 July 2017
                                                                                                      The Noosa Plan
technology based businesses reliant on broadband communication;

timber industry initiatives and product manufacturing at the Nandroya Mill site;

Cooroy’s support role in the locality for surrounding agricultural activities;

extractive and mineral resources;

                 ii     facilitating artistic and cultural business enterprises; and

                 iii    agricultural industries and associated rural enterprises;

u)    Business opportunities in Cooroy are enhanced by the protection of major transport corridors
      including access to the Bruce Highway, Cooroy-Noosa Road and the North Coast Rail line;

v)    Cooroy services much of the hinterland of Noosa providing low to medium order goods and
      some higher order goods and services such as vehicle sales, rural supplies, community,
      medical, and educational facilities as well as specialty items such as handmade furniture;

w)    Cooroy’s industrial estates provide capacity for considerable growth, diversity and
      employment for the hinterland, with access to the Bruce highway being particularly important
      to this growth;

x)    The town of Cooroy provides a range of community services, schools, medical facilities,
      sporting and recreational facilities, which service the hinterland and beyond;

y)    New areas of urban and rural settlement development are precluded from the part of the
      locality within the catchment area of Lake Macdonald where the dominant goal is the
      protection of water quality within the primary water supply source;

z)    The Bruce Highway, Elm Street, Cooroy-Noosa Road, Eumundi Road, parts of Myall Street
      and Diamond Street, Cooroy-Belli Road, Maple Street, Mary River Road, Lake Macdonald
      Drive and Sunrise Road are protected as parts of the Noosa’s major road network;

aa)   A public transport node is located within Cooroy and links public transport services to other
      centres in Noosa, including railway stations;

bb)   Rail services and highway access is maintained for residents of the locality to commute to
      Brisbane or other employment centres;

cc)   The vistas offered from the major road corridors are protected and add to the attraction of
      the locality for visitors and residents;

dd)   Environmental and aesthetic values associated with the hillslopes, including iconic
      mountains and the watercourses of Lake Macdonald, Ringtail, Six Mile and Cooroy Creeks,
      are protected;

ee)   The water quality of Lake Macdonald is protected as the primary source of water supply for
      the coastal urban areas of Noosa and the rural towns and villages of Cooroy, Pomona,
      Cooran and Cooroibah;

ff)   Water quality standards in the watercourses of this locality are maintained or improved
      through land management practices;

gg)   Development within the catchment is restricted to protect water quality and its associated
      environmental values. Subdivision and development within the water catchment is limited
      and much of the land will remain as open space;

hh)   Open space networks across the locality are protected and enhanced including—

                 i      Mt Cooroy Conservation Park;




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