2021-02-09 Planning and Environment Committee Meeting Agenda

PLANNING & ENVIRONMENT COMMITTEE MEETING AGENDA                                   9 FEBRUARY 2021


2.    SITE DETAILS
2.1. Background
The site was originally gifted from Noosa Shire Council to Noosa Care Incorporated in 1975 for the
purposes of providing aged care.
A substantial development known as ‘Carramar Noosa Homes’ is currently located on the site. The
complex has been operating over a number of years with several extensions progressively being
added to the facility. The existing development consists of 142 residential rooms containing one bed,
including a special care dementia building containing 32 rooms, and ancillary features including a
community centre, staff building and administration building.
A Preliminary Approval for a Material Change of Use Multiple Housing Type 3 Retirement and
Special Needs (MCU18/0009) was issued 21 August 2018. The original application sought a
Development Permit for an additional 48 beds in 6 accommodation villas. The Preliminary Approval
was issued due to the identification of development constraints related to the habitat of the
threatened Swamp Crayfish, flooding, wetland vegetation and car parking.
The applicant suspended the appeal period on 31 August 2018 and made representations on 2
October 2018. The representations sought a Negotiated Decision Notice to change the decision type
from a Preliminary Approval to a Development Permit for a Material Change of Use and amend
condition 1. The representations were approved on 15 November 2018 with an amended layout
providing for an additional 32 beds in 4 accommodation villas, resulting in a total of 174 beds on site.
A minor change application was submitted on 10 April 2019 which amended the layout of the
development. The single storey accommodation villas at the front of the site were deleted and the
built form to the rear of the site was amended from single storey to double storey with all 32 beds
being contained within the buildings to the rear of the site. This application was approved by Council
on 18 July 2019.
A further minor change application was submitted on 10 March 2020 seeking approval to amend the
approved plans to include fire-fighting pumps adjacent to the front boundary of the site. The
application was approved under delegation on 29 April 2020.
Since the time of the original approval the applicable zoning has been amended to reflect the
environmental values contained within the eastern part of the site and to incorporate the previously
residential zoned land abutting the western boundary to community zoning. Advice from Council’s
Strategic Planning unit is that the environmental zoning will be scaled back as it was not intended to
extend beyond the area dedicated to Council.
The following images detail the zoning at the time of the approval (2006 Noosa Plan) and the current
zoning of the 2020 Noosa Plan.




                                 Figure 5: Land zoning (2006 Noosa Plan)



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